Seesaw - Wicked Easy (Fox 2018)

What is Seesaw?
Seesaw is a student created digital portfolios. Whatever they create can be shared with staff, peers and parents in a flash. It is wicked easy for the students to use without a lot of instruction. Some are using it as a digital thinking notebook incorporating images, video, voice and drawing.

Why Seesaw?

It works very well with BYOD and district devices.
It has the potential to engage students.
It might be the easiest tool ever invented that allows students to show what they know.
A very easy way for you and the students to keep a record of what they created throughout the year.
It is wicked easy to use.
Evidence of work for SLOs.
Better connection from school to home.

Getting Started
Create your free account.

I would recommend using Seesaw's Getting Started Guides as your next steps. The guides have everything you need to help your students understand how to use Seesaw to show and share their learning.

Ideas for 6-12

Resources

Seesaw offers great PD in your PJs. Check out this Getting Ready to Seesaw in 6-12. What I like about this video is it isn't about either/or, Seesaw compliments what you are already using in the classroom. Follow Julie Jacobs on Twitter.
Seesaw Activities for 6-12. A few good ideas on how to use Seesaw in a science classroom. The recording is short and these ideas can easily be ported to whatever you teach. I love the idea of prompts.
Follow/Tweet Seesaw on Twitter.
Seesaw Help Center - just type in what you are looking for.

Comments

Like your ELMO but with an iPad (elementary classroom teachers)

I used AirServer to create the infinity mirror effect. We were in a meeting today and Dominic told us about this fantastic idea. As we discussed all things technology he explained one method of using the iPad as a portable ELMO. It was too cool not to share. Step 1 Make sure you have AirServer running on your laptop. 1. Click the Windows key on your keyboard or click the icon in the lower left of your screen. 2. Just start typing AirServer. 3. Click AirServer. Don't see it? Contact technology or your building tech person. Step 2 Connect your teacher iPad to your laptop. 1. Swipe up from the bottom of the screen. Start by swiping in the bezel, the black plastic part surrounding the screen. 2. Click AirPlay Mirroring. 3. Click your name. Step 3 Open the camera app and instant portable ELMO! Anything you see in the camera's len will be broadcast to the big screen. I just used this method to take a picture of my notebook as a demonstration of how co

Who is emailing me? The Blue Man Group??? (Add an image to your Google account.)

WHY It is always nice to put a face with a name. Sometimes we need a tiny little reminder of what someone looks like because we don't see them very often. Follow these steps to add/change the image associated with your Google account. HOW Open your email. Click your image. It might just be a blue circle if you have not added something already. Click Change . Find an image you like. Your amazing new image will appear. From now on everyone can put a name to a face!

Annotate PDF? How might I do that?

So I have a PDF and I need to edit it. Here is one method that works pretty well for me. Open Word. Click File . 1. Click Open . 2. Click Browse . 3. Find the PDF you want to annotate. 4. Click Open . Click OK when you see this box. Bam! Your PDF now opens in Word. Note: you maybe have to click Enable Editing at the top of the screen. Finished editing and want to turn it back into a PDF? Click File . 1. Click Save As . 2. Click This PC . 3. Pick a location. I usually save things to my desktop. 4. Click Save as type - and choose PDF. 5. Click Save .

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