Balancing Student Online
Portfolios with Seesaw
Kirsten Lofton kyhatch@episd.org
Twitter: @kirstenteaches
QR Code Link to Presentation http://tinyurl.com/TCEA2016Seesaw

About Me
• My Family
• 18th year in education
• Taught K, 1, 2, 6, 7
• Active Learning
Leader

Student Driven Digital Portfolios
Introduction for Teachers

Today’s Learning Goals:
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Explore Seesaw and learn about its different features
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Create content in Seesaw
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Set up your teacher account so your students can begin sharing their content immediately

What is Seesaw?
Seesaw empowers students of any age to independently document what they are learning at school.
Students capture learning with photos and videos of physical work, or by adding digital creations. Everything is uploaded and kept organized for teachers.
Teachers can invite families to Seesaw so parents get an immediate, personalized window into their child's learning.

Get Seesaw for Your Device
Seesaw supports all the platforms you use and seamlessly works between them, making Seesaw great for BYOD environments.
iOS Devices Android Devices
Chromebooks
Computers with
Chrome or Firefox

Login Options That Work for All Ages
With support for QR code login for younger learners and
Email/Google Account sign in for older students, Seesaw works in any K-12 classroom.

Empower Students to Document
What They’re Learning at School
Students can “show what they know” using photos, videos, drawings, text, PDFs, and links.
You can also import directly from many popular apps.

Collect and Organize Student Work from Any Device
When students add to their Seesaw journal, content is uploaded, organized by student, and immediately accessible to teachers from any device and on the web.
Seesaw makes it easy for students and teachers to review progress over time and demonstrate growth.

Journals are Organized, Sortable and
Accessible
Browse work from the entire class, or for a single student.
Optionally, use folders to organize work by subject area or project.
Teachers can flag items for follow up or to review at parent-teacher conferences.

Encourage Student Reflection
Seesaw helps capture the learning process, not just the end result.
Students can use Seesaw's built-in audio recording and drawing tools to reflect on what they've learned or explain how they got their answer.

Examples from Elementary
Elementary School Blog
Kindergarten Blog
• Journal Entries
• Class Photos
• Sight Word Knowledge
• Oral Reading
• Field Trip Photos
• Math Activities

Develop Authentic Audience
Seesaw gives students an authentic audience of their peers and parents, encouraging better work and real feedback.
Teachers can control who can see what, and what feedback options are available.

Strengthen Connections Between
School and Home
Include families in the learning process by inviting them to view updates to their child’s Seesaw journal.
Seesaw’s immediate, visual updates actually get seen by parents, provide encouragement for students, and cross language barriers.
Parents can access Seesaw via iOS app, Android app or on the web.

Sign In to our Temporary “Class”
Open the Seesaw Learning Journal app
Log out if you have already signed in as a teacher
Tap “I’m a Student”
Allow camera permissions
Scan the Seesaw QR code (from within the app)

Add a Photo Entry
Use the + sign in the upper right-hand corner to add an entry
Choose the camera to take a photo
Take a “selfie” or a photo of something in the room
Use the microphone to record a goal for the spring semester
Follow the checkmarks to add your entry

Add a Drawing
Use the + sign in the upper right-hand corner to add an entry
Choose the pencil to add a drawing
Draw a picture of today’s weather or work out the problem 42 x 17.
Use the microphone to record one thing about the weather or describe solving the problem.
Follow the checkmarks to add your entry

Add from Camera Roll
Use the + sign in the upper right-hand corner to add an entry
Choose the camera roll to add a photo
Use the text feature to write a sentence about the photo you added.
Follow the checkmarks to add your entry

Add a Note
Use the + sign in the upper right-hand corner to add an entry
Choose the notepad to add a note
Write about one way you are excited to use
(or have used) Seesaw with your students
Follow the checkmarks to add your entry

Video
Take a video describing something you want to remember about TCEA 2016. Upload to
Seesaw following the checkmarks.
There is a 5 minute limit to the videos.
Adding Video on Seesaw Website

Link
Adding a link can be used when students create content in another app that produces a link for sharing
• Chatterpix
• Tellagami
• Shadow Puppet Edu
• Flipagram
• YouTube Videos

Your Turn!
Create your class.
Sign out of our Seesaw “Class”
Tap on your name (or 3 bars) in the upper lefthand corner
Tap on your name (or the gear object)
Tap Sign Out

Let’s Create Your Class
Tap “I’m a Teacher”
Create a free account
When you name your class, remember the name you call your class is the name that everyone will see, including parents

Time to Add Students
Tap on your name in upper left-hand corner
Tap Manage Class
Tap Manage Students
Add Students
Getting Started Checklist

Teachers are Always in Control
Teachers approve all student journal entries and comments before anything is shared with parents.
Teachers can customize all of the settings for their class, like:
Student sign in mode
Can students like or comment?
Can students edit?
Can students see each other's work?
Will our class feature work on a Seesaw class blog?

Teacher Resource Center
Seesaw has tons of resources available at help.seesaw.me
, like getting started guides, intro presentations for your students and parents, tutorial videos, and activity ideas.

Tutorial Videos for Your Reference
Getting Started!
How to Set up a Seesaw Blog
Calendar View and Folders
How to Use Seesaw Connected Blogs
Adding and Approving Items
How to Connect to another Seesaw Blog
*** Inviting Parents ***
(Do this after adding at least 2 entries.) How to Remove a Blog Post
What is my Blog's URL?

Activity Ideas
Math Fine Arts
English Language Arts World Languages
History & Social Studies Science
Special Needs

Presentations for You to Introduce
Seesaw to Students or Parents
Intro Presentation for Students
Intro Presentation for Parents
Classroom Expectations Posters

Pricing
Seesaw is free for individual teachers and parents to use for the currently active school year.
If you'd like to use Seesaw to keep a digital portfolio stored and organized beyond the current year, you can purchase a paid subscription.
Parent Plus Account
Allows parents to maintain their child’s journal in Seesaw over time, even if their school has not purchased Seesaw.
School Account
Enables students to use the same digital portfolio throughout their school career, plus admin tools, and premium support.
$9.99/child/yea r Learn more
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Student Data is Safe and Secure
Seesaw takes protecting your students’ security and privacy seriously.
We will never sell or share any account information or journal content with 3rd parties without your explicit request. See our Privacy Policy for more details.
Student journal content is only accessible to the people you invite to view it, like parents and administrators.
Seesaw has taken the Student Privacy Pledge .
You can read about all of our security measures we have in place on our website .

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Ambassador
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Ambassador. My email is kyhatch@episd.org
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If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me at kyhatch@episd.org
or message me on Twitter
@kirstenteaches
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