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Adding emojis to emails is an easy way to add fun and interest to your emails. Check out the tips below to learn how to maximize adding emojis to email subject lines. ✨Add Flair and Pique Interest ✨ Make your emails stand out from the rest by including emojis in the subject line. Use emojis related to the email content to add flair and pique the recipient's interest.  When I am hosting an event or I want students to notice my email, I add emojis to the email subject line. This is an easy and fun way to draw attention to your email.' Below are some examples of emails I have sent to students with emojis in the subject line. Sometimes I compose emails on my phone so I can easily search for the emoji I want to use. I added this sunrise emoji to the beginning of my email subject line in an email I sent to students for our Rise & Shine organizational skills group. In this email, I added a paint pallet and a laptop for to the sub...

Did you know you can create your own QR codes? QR Code stands for Quick Response Code. QR codes are scannable barcode-like images. When scanned with a smart device camera (phone, iPad, Chromebook, Fire, etc.) the user can access a link or URL. You can use websites like QR code generator to create your own QR codes. Copy and paste the link into the generator to download a QR code image.  Check out the post below for tips to create and use QR codes! ✨ Goodbye Complicated URLs ✨ Stakeholders can easily access a URL by scanning a QR Code with their smart device. They get access to the site without typing a complicated URL. Even shortened URLs  can sometimes be clunky to copy or type. School website addresses can be also be cumbersome. A scannable QR code can direct your stakeholders to the exact URL. ✨ Easily Share Responses ✨ Create QR codes to make Google Forms scannable. The user can scan the QR code with their smart device camera and will be...

✨ School Counselor Tech Tip: Google Keep ✨ Google Keep is a web-based platform and app that allows you to organize all of your thoughts, ideas, and to-do's. Check out the post below for optimizing Google Keep as a School Counselor! ✨ Digitize Sticky Notes ✨ Google Keep allows you to digitize anything that you would typically write on a sticky note. Google Keep notes are searchable, sortable, shareable. I have so many ideas recorded digitally as notes in Google Keep. I love that I can put them in Google Keep anytime I come up with a new idea. I love that I can easily search my notes to find what I saved. ✨ Maximize Organization ✨ Organize your thoughts and ideas into notes. Include images, drawings, voice to text, and video. Categorize notes by color coding, tagging, and pining. I probably use the voice to text the most when using Google Keep. Sometimes I randomly have an idea that I want to save. Google keep allows me to voice record ...

Google Chrome has an option to group tabs ! On a Mac, you control click on any Chrome website tab to get a drop-down menu. You can create a name for a group of websites. You can even color code your tab!  Check out the post below for tips to optimize grouping tabs! ✨ Visited Daily ✨ Easily access frequently visited websites by grouping them in a "daily" category. I group my course management system, student instructional options, and other frequently used websites into a "daily" tab. It is so convenient to have all of my most used websites easily accessible. ✨ Organized Tasks ✨ Create a tab group for websites needed for different tasks or projects. Each Tuesday, I send out office hour emails to students and families for our asynchronous day. I have a tab with teacher Zoom links and office hours sign ups. This allows me to have everything I need to send out emails. ✨Prepared for Meetings ✨  Facilitate your v...