Virtual platforms & strategies for connecting with learners

Advisors, school counselors, teachers and leaders are using these digital platforms and strategies to engage with students – especially during the pandemic:

Asynchronous lessons and surveys
Attending classes
Bitmoji
Chat Bar
Counseling website
Drop in supports
Email
FAFSA night - virtually
Google platforms: join teachers’ G meets, grade level, one on one
- Chat
- Meets
- Classroom
- Hangouts
- Voice (assigns a number to you – all calls transferred)
Group career counseling sessions
Kahoot (game based)
Live sessions
Meaningful Career Conversations
- Meaningful Monday
Microsoft Teams
- Chat and Virtual Meetings
Nearpod "Make every lesson interactive!"

One on one meetings
Online Games
Online wheels for topic discussions
Online tours - college, worksite
- Road Trip Nation
- Virtual Job Shadow, free with login from ConnectingColorado,com
QR codes
Phone calls
Polls - e.g. Mentimeter (free and fee-based)
Scavenger hunts
Scheduled lunch w/ interactive game
Schoology (fee based school information system)
Screencastify - record, edit, share videos - free
Seesaw - (fee based student driven portfolio and sample parent communication)
Texting
WebEx "Call, message, meet, anytime"
Whiteboard - free whiteboard tool

Videos
- Videos of me doing a lesson
- Recorded
Virtual advisement boards
Virtual calendar
Virtual home visits
Virtual lessons
Virtual "minute meetings"
Virtual office hours
Virtual workshops
Visual aids and engagement through movement
YouCanBook.me - appointment calendar link to all families, then meeting
Zoom (fee-based)
- appointments
- classrooms – then breakout
- break-out rooms
- embedded in Schoology