Simon Wing
Primary School Teacher | Intel Education Visionary | Apple Teacher | Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert | Seesaw Ambassador
Twitter: @mrwing_ict
Interactive Learning Session
What is Seesaw?
A FREE digital portfolio that collects students’ digital and physical work in one place. Everything is organised, making assessment easier!
A space that each student can own. Built-in tools make it easy for students to capture their learning, reflect, and develop new skills.
A parent communication tool that seamlessly shares what’s going on in your classroom and builds a strong school-home community.
Empowers students to document their learning as it happens
Develops students’ writing skills, reflection skills and critical thinking skills
Seesaw for IMPACT!
Develops 21st Century skills in safe, moderated environment
Creates a strong community around learning by involving families
Organises digital creations and classroom activities
Seesaw for IMPACT!
Saves time on �Assessments and parent communication
Journal writing with peer feedback
Classroom Examples
Time Saving Tip
Use Folders to Organise Work
Time Saving Tip
Send Newsletters with Seesaw
Idea 1: Use the Note tool to write up notes for the upcoming week. Just a 1, 2, 3 list is fine! Tag with “Everyone” to send home to all parents.
Idea 2: Create a word cloud with topics from the week using http://www.wordclouds.com/ or Word Clouds app. Upload using the Camera Roll/Upload File tool. Record a voice recording explaining what students did this week.
Time Saving Tip
Save digital creations from many apps into Seesaw.
Photos, videos, links, PDFs—all go into Seesaw!
See a list compatible apps here
Experience
as a Student
Please download Seesaw: The Learning Journal
or go to app.seesaw.me
Two options for signing-in
iPad/Android/Kindle
Chromebook/Web
app.seesaw.me
Stand up and scan QR poster
Scan QR poster
or
Type class code
Before we begin, let’s look at the first tool
rotate record voice draw on it add caption
Try it out!
First entry
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Don’t forget to sign out!
Let’s check in with our class
Connect with other teachers using Seesaw
Twitter: @mrwing_ict
swing@montgomery.devon.sch.uk
Thank You!