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Student-Driven Digital Portfolios

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Presentation template by SlidesCarnival

Many slides used from presentation created by Angela Gadtke

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Welcome!

Beginning Seesaw K-5

Step by Step

Seesaw Website for Teachers & Students

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Plan for Today

• Sign in on the iPads
• Intros & features
• Experience Seesaw as a student
• Tools and classroom ideas
• Implementation plan
• Connecting parents
• Plan your next steps
• Questions

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Excited to get Seesawing

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Shift in Thinking

New Possibilities

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21st Century Learning Skills!

Communication Creativity Critical Thinking Collaboration

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Why

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Digital

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Learning Journal

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• Students capture learning
• Several tools for creation in one app
• Items can be shared with the child’s parents, peers, or the world
• Document growth
• Easy for any teacher

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@MrsGadtke

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• Gives ALL students voice
• Makes thinking visible - provides insight
• Creates ownership in learning, builds reflection, supports creation
• Organizes and shares digital creations
• Builds strong communication between home and school
• Authentic audience and feedback
• Visual updates cross language barriers

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Encourages Critical Thinking!

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Why I Seesaw

@MrsGadtke

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Examples of

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Journal entries

Writing Process with Text Annotation

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ELA Skill with Drawing Annotation

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Math Skill with Voice Annotation

“That helps me teach other people what I know”

Within 23 days of kindergarten....

@MrsGadtke

What Platforms is Seesaw Compatible with?

Class Website

iOS App for Students & Teachers

iOS App for Parents

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Website for Chromebooks, and Computers w/ Chrome or Firefox Browsers

app.seesaw.me

Parent Website

app.seesaw.me

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Parent Website

PARENT

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Android App for Parents

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Students & Teachers

Parents

Privacy Principles

• Privacy center
• PDF for families

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Meet Sophia :)

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But don’t take my word for it…..

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...is Simple!

How Does Seesaw Work?

Teachers create a class and add their students.

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Each student gets their own journal stored safely on the cloud.

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Students & teachers add artifacts of learning, like photos, videos, drawings, notes, PDFS or links.

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Optionally add voice, text or drawing annotations to work.

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Teachers approve students’ new journal items.

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Optionally, new items are shared with parents via app, SMS or email notifications.

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Over time, Seesaw builds an organized, digital portfolio of each student’s learning. Portfolios are accessible via iOS app or on the web.

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Experience

as a Student

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• Grab a device & get ready to create

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@MrsGadtke

sign out if you are signed in as a teacher

QR code sign in for younger students

@MrsGadtke

Various views depending on device

iPad/Android

Chromebook/Web

app.seesaw.me

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Scan now to Join our PD Class!

Scan Codes are available at your table.

Tool #1 - Photo

Camera is built-in and kid friendly

rotate record voice draw on it add caption

• Tap photo and take a selfie.

Global audience today

Digital citizenship

@MrsGadtke

• Tap text tool

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• Type your name, grade level/ specialty area, and any additional info you want to share!

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• Tap if you are “done with that part”

@MrsGadtke

My name is Brandon Brazel. I teach 2nd Grade and I hope Cheekwood uses the same “wrinkle cream miracle” retouches this year!

• Your item is added after teacher approval

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Let’s check in live

with our class!

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Tool #1 - Photo

Tool #2- Drawing

Tool #3 Voice Record

TASK:

1. Take a photo of something in the room

that has parallel lines.

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2.Once image is on the screen, .Use the drawing tool to highlight the parallel lines you found.

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3. Annotate by using Voice record.

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rotate record voice draw on it add caption

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• Tap if you are “done with that part”

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Let’s check in live

with our class!

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Be on the lookout for your step-by-step plan

• Road map of implementation
• Blank included for you to make your own

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100 ways to Seesaw

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Traditional

Pencil/Paper Task

How can YOU Seesaw?

Specials Classes

Reading/ Speech

Shared Students

Feedback from Stakeholders

JR2 Participants from Oct PD shared the following:

Parents from my class shared the following:

• Pre K ECSE- “So many of my parents have commented on how much they LOVE this app! It has definitely been a hit in my classroom:)”

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• Orchard: “ I like that students can easily login and record their own learning. I love the immediacy of sharing with parents as soon as you upload an item. It is the most user friendly app I have implemented for electronic portfolios.”

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• East: “During centers the "recording studio" is one of my stations.They use seesaw to share any writing pieces or class work they are proud of.”

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• North: “Students video share their goals and progress with those goals during the year.”

• “I really enjoy seeing all of the different things my child is learning in the classroom. I am blown away by how tech-savy he has become, saving and uploading photos/images/videos, recording his voice and utilizing various colors to help explain the project or task. It's really very cool. Plus, this interface is essentially allowing him to teach me what he has learned. And, you can't teach someone else something you don't know - further underscoring the fact that he is learning and retaining it.”

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• “We love seesaw! It is the cutest way to stay connected with the classroom. My favorite part would have to be the ability to leave a comment for my daughter and her be able to read it. And boy does she, I find her looking at it on my phone a lot! My initial thought of seesaw was a private social media type for the school aged child, think "time hop" on Facebook. We can look back on the entries in a week, month, or year and see just how 'big' they are getting.”

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• “I love that I can moniter my childs growth through seesaw while im at work I get excited to get a chance to watch my daughters videos and it amazes me how much she has developed....seesaw is a fun interactive tool to monitor the learning process. I feel engaged, as if I’m in the classroom with her....

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Reports

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Reports

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from a desktop computer

go to app.seesaw.me

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Connecting parents takes

2 minutes

sign in as a teacher

click here or...

@MrsGadtke

app.seesaw.me

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Go into settings tap invite parents

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After students have at least one entry each, it is time to invite an authentic audience!

When you invite parents, you are given the option to send an e-mail...

The letter is already written for you! Just add parent addresses and SEND!

...or invitations are instantly generated for each student. Print and send home.

QR code for parent invitation is unique to each child

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Ready to try a video with live annotating?

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See student thinking when working through a math problem!!

• Take a picture of the next slide

@MrsGadtke

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Save digital creations from many apps, links, or PDFs into Seesaw

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Thanks for the images Jason Boyce

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Whoa! You can do that with Seesaw?

• Set student goals and track
• BLOG!
• Rethink your newsletter
• Record first language greeting
• Documenting makerspace, Genius Hour, or PBL
• Add accountability during independent work
• Global classrooms - start a class with a few teachers around world

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App SMASH!

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Shadow Puppet + Seesaw

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DoInk + Seesaw

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DoInk + Seesaw= Morning Announcements

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iMovie + Seesaw= Book Summary Report

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You are ready to empower learners in a new way!

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Questions?

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