The Student Intervention Manager is a tool for School Counselors to use for Student Interventions. We’re pretty excited about it and are working hard to get the word out.
Imagine, every time you as the School Counselor make a good action decision to benefit the student you are working with, your wisdom will immediately help someone else who is also using siM. Likewise, as you make your best prescribed action decisions, you are instantly provided with perspective from everyone else who has ever used siM!
You’ll also find good information about siM at our Simcolab.com website and you can spread the news around by ‘liking’ the Simcolab Facebook page.
This is one of the most exciting projects I have been part of, right up there with HirGrnd.ca. Why? Well, they’re both meaningful and actually designed to help people!
Nathan recently presented at Demo, an emerging tech conference in Silicon Valley. I’m proud to showcase Nathan here because EmmaActive represents a significant achievement for him. Nathan is an innovative developer I’ve enjoyed working with on Simcolab.com.
Have a look at EmmaActive. Nathan, Terry and Justin are doing a masterful job and the result is both timely and revolutionary for the internet today.
For years we have been using the internet like a library. Find information, use the outcome.
More recently we have been using the internet to communicate and put information back into the web. Find information, add information, share the information online, use the (smarter) outcome.
siM uses the information a student’s counselor has entered, combines it with the input of everyone else who has ever used siM (database) and provides multiple “best practice” options for the counselor to consider. Recommended action items are very specific. They are specific to this student’s situation because siM has ‘listened first’ to the input of the counselor AND the student before offering recommended actions. These action recommendations are also offered graphically so the counselor will know what has worked well most often vs what has worked well only a few times.
The student and counselor gain the benefit of everyone else’s experience. siM is a case manager for school counselors with a unique action recommendation function.
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Yesterday I stopped in to meet with my partner at our us
ual coffee haunt in the valley. I ordered my coffee and asked for it in a ‘to-go’ cup expecting to meet for a few minutes then dash to the city for an evening event.
The coffee shop owners firmly stated that they would gladly serve my coffee in a ceramic mug and re-decant (recant?) my coffee into a to-go cup should I leave before it was done. I insisted; “a to-go cup will be fine, I expect to leave shortly.” They returned; “As part of our new eco-initiative, we prefer not to serve coffee in disposable cups if at all possible. We’ll put your coffee in a mug.”
Yes, my coffee was served in a mug, later re-poured into a paper cup for me to take with me. Three things…
- I didn’t get what I wanted. Coffee to go.
- the coffee was cooled down twice before I left. Once into the cold mug, then into the cold, paper cup.
- They now have the paper cup ‘out there’ and a used mug to wash.
As for the debate of paper vs mug, I’ll defer to this inconclusive examination of the issue.
