If you are interested in using LWPS as a career cybercounselor, please add a comment with your intentions so we can discuss what is next, and I can develop this post further.

---

1. Relating Interests to College Majors, Career Clusters, and Career Pathways  Lawrence Jones NCDA 12/1/09

---

"Open site"

We need to qualify what is meant by an "open site".

During the PDI, I explained that any post you create on CCC (or anywhere on LWPS) could be public, private or restricted to a pre-defined set of authorized readers. So, in this case, only "public" posts would constitute an "open site". To dramatize this, I claimed that this post (with this URL http://lifeworkps.com/hubbard/weblog/166.html) contains everything personal and confidential about me. You can not access it because it exists in a database on a server somewhere. The next sequnetial post #167 is public and you or anyone in the world can access it.

There is a qualified valid concern that the datastream that builds post # 166 each time you see it is not encrypted (yet) and could be a security risk. But I could say the same for e-mail that some cybercounselors are using today in their sessions - unless they use some kind of encryption program on both ends.

One should also consider reasonableness and degree of risk. There have been several times when I have sent my Credit Card information to someone in an unencrypted e-mail. I trusted the recipient and I assessed that the likelihood of someone monitoring my e-mail to farm my confidential information was extrememly low. I was willing to take that risk. I think it is reasonable to expect that cybercounselors and cyberclients can use that same judgement. Matter of fact, NBCC's guideline #10 allows for some latitidue here by advising cybercounselors "If encryption is not made available to clients, clients must be informed of the potential hazards of insecured communication on the Internet. Hazards may include unauthorized monitoring of transmissions and/or records of Internet counseling sessions." When such sensitive transmissions are anticipated, the cybercounselor may want to use more secure channels an/or require face-to-face communication.

Intake form

Certainly a blank intake form, similar to this one that Sally uses, can be "public" and reside on an open site. But once it is filled out, then what? I think that depends totally on the judgement of the cyberclient and cybercounselor and what is contained in the intake form.

Return to the Questions from PDI # 5 participants about career cybercounseling and the Career Cybercounseling (CCC) community project.

---

PDI # 5 Q/C: I like the product and look forward to the August release

The software engine that runs LWPS is called Elgg and a new release (v0.7) is due out in late August. It will substantially change the user interface and offer new function and features. That August release date is soft. A week of two after it's release, we will instsall it on LWPS.

If you click on the "v0.7" tag/keyword below, you will see LWPS posts about this new version.

Return to the Questions from PDI # 5 participants about career cybercounseling and the Career Cybercounseling (CCC) community project.

PDI # 5 Q/C: Wanted more on career cybercounseling concerns

One evaluation asked for a comprehensive example of an online counseling relationship using this tool. So far, no one has started a career cybercounseling relationship/session on CCC. We are waiting for the right mix of cybercounselor and cyberclient.

Sally just pointed out to me that I don't know for sure that "no one has started a career cybercounseling relationship/session on CCC." Online counseling relationships may not be broadcast to the CCC community. Excellent point! She also told me to invite you to look at her LWPS site, lifeworkps.com/sallyg so you can begin to see how one counselor is approaching cybercounseling. She said you can view her (1) Profile, (2) Services, (3) New Clients (including Intake), etc. by clicking on the links in her "gold" box in the upper right.

We are keenly sensitive to these concerns and will be spending considerable time and energy addressing them.

Return to the Questions from PDI # 5 participants about career cybercounseling and the Career Cybercounseling (CCC) community project.

Career Cybercounseling (CCC) Table of Contents

1. Welcome, career cyberclient, to the Career Cybercounseling (CCC) community, project, website and blog.
   
2. Welcome, career cybercounselor, to the Career Cybercounseling (CCC) community, project, website and blog.
   
3. 
   
4. 
   
5. 
   
6. Questions from PDI # 5 participants about career cybercounseling and the Career Cybercounseling (CCC) community project..
   
7. 
   

PDI # 5 Q/C: No Handouts

One PDI evaluator said that "no handouts" was what they liked the least about the PDI. The next evaluation I read said that the handout was what they liked the most.

So obviously, expectations for the type(s) of handouts varied considerably.

Prior to the PDI, I e-mailed this post to all participants. It contained several links to additional information that they might find interesting before coming to the PDI. We recommended that they print off a few before the PDI and annotate them with questions and/or comments.

The one handout was two-sided. This post contains a link to both sides. Both are rich with additional information about the Career Cybercounseling (CCC) community project.

We did not include a lot of handouts because it was so much easier to link to additional sources of information by viewing material online, rather than in hard copy. I hope this practice will grow in future conferences.

Return to the Questions from PDI # 5 participants about career cybercounseling and the Career Cybercounseling (CCC) community project.

Questions from PDI # 5 participants about career cybercounseling and the Career Cybercounseling (CCC) community project.

We know that there is much that we need to talk about in the nascent field of career cybercounseling and the Career Cybercounseling (CCC) community project and that a four (4) hour PDI is woefully inadequate. Based upon your evaluations of the PDI and comments and questions we heard during and after the PDI, we have started to accumulate and organize them in this public (anyone can read it) post to the CCC community. (http://lifeworkps.com/cybercounsel/weblog/952.html)

Items 1-6 below are links to posts where I have responded to those 6 questions/comments. I've listed additional questions/comments that were taken from all of the evaluations, but we have not yet begun to address them. We will do so soon.

If you have other questions and comments, we ask that you click here to submit them to me so I can add them to this list. If you have registered for an LWPS account and are logged in, just click "Comments" to add your questions or comments.

Questions/comments from your evaluations

1. No handouts
   
2. Wanted more on career cybercounseling concerns
   
3. I like the product and look forward to the August release
   
4. Should an intake form exist on an open site?
   
5. When will blogs be covered?
   
6. I've registered for an LWPS account. Now what do I do?
   
7. What would counselor relationship with LWPS be on an ongoing basis?
   
8. What is the process of doing CCC (rather than just learn about the LWPS platform)?
   
9. What is CCC? How could participants facilitate its use?
   
10. Use computer lab to teach the PDI concepts (hands-on)
    
11. We have been looking for this kind of platform for a couple of years. I see us using this.
    
12. Participants were too diversified in their technical abilities.
    
13. How could it be used to meet the needs of various populations?
    
14. Would like to know more about ePortfolios, blogs. eCommunities, plus define these terms.
    
15. What is cybercounseling? Give examples.
    
16. Use technology that works in PDI (lack of Internet access for half of the presentations - include computer access for participants in future presentations).
    
17. Describe cybercounseling considerations, how to make a blog.
    
18. Include more step-by-step presentations, powerpoints to break up the steps.
    
19. Want to learn how to start my own ePortfolio.
    
20. ?
    
21. (Click here to submit a question or comment to add to this list. If you have registered for an LWPS account and are logged in, just click "Comments" to add your questions or comments. )
    
22. ?
    

Thank you for your continued participation in this virtual extension of the PDI and dialogue to learn more about the features and functions of CCC and other LWPS communities, and how LWPS can assist you in your work as a Career professional.

When a sufficient number of new questions/comments have been added and/or we have created posts to respond to them, we will send you an update to this note. If you have an LWPS account, you can also "mark this post as interesting" (see how) and be notified when comments are added.

We are considering holding free teleclasses where you would call in to a toll-free number and participate in a virtual lab to learn more about CCC, LWPS, blogging, etc.. Click here to express your interest in this idea. If there is a good response and several teleclasses, we may ask for donations to defray our teleconferencing expenses.

Click here to subscribe to, or click here to unsubscribe from, this mailing list.

To whom it may concern,

There is currently no connection or affiliation between ReadyMinds and the Career Cybercounseling community project.

We asked people if they have a Distance Counseling Certification (DCC) or if they are interested in obtaining a DCC because it is one measure of their potential interest in cybercounseling.

Career Cybercounseling Newsletter (CCCNews)

1. What's New?
   
2. Work in process.
   
3. Issues and concerns about use the Internet to conduct career cybercounseling sessions.
   
4. Discussion on how to start a CCC session.
   

CCCNews will be released when there is something substantial to tell you. Past CCCNews and a draft of future CCCNews will be listed in the CCCNews Index.

Click here to subscribe to or click here to unsubscribe from this mailing list.