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I've come across lots of teachers asking how to get Seesaw started or set up in your school. Obviously every school is different and will look different to each teacher. But it is always important to have consistent expectations that teachers know, understand and agree to to ensure consistency across the school. At my school, we first rolled it out across a few classrooms to test it out, gain feedback and see how students experienced it within their learning. Then we rolled it out school wide. But we needed to get some expectations to ensure teachers knew what was expected of them with this new technology being introduced. So we gathered as a staff meeting and really unpacked what it will look like, what was reasonable to begin with for teachers and students, and what the learning being shared would look like. Our expectations were written into an online policy guidelines so that teachers were clear about what was happening. Our expectations for 2018: To have two posts minimum a term Can be in any curriculum area Can be individual or group based post It must have a WALHT or SC. This will help parents understand what the post is about and what learning was happening. There was also guidelines about what happens if students were to post inappropriate things, places for questions and also conferences. This really helped me (ICT Lead Teacher) and other teachers be clear about what was happening when using Seesaw. If you would like to view this document as a Google doc please view it here. Please see my other Seesaw blog posts for other areas of implementation that can help you get Seesaw started in your school!
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I am always looking for new ways of getting students engaged and using Seesaw in a meaningful way. The opportunities with Seesaw are really limitless and thats what makes it so great to use in any classroom! My new Seesaw resources adapts one originally created by @mickie_mueller/@tracipiltz; which I have then modified for a reading and maths type contract activity! You can find the original here. The aim is for students to use it as a reading or maths contract over a week, and share evidence of their learning using the different tools Seesaw offers! The great thing is this can be adapted or changed to suit your students needs or levels! Perfect for any age. Each contract has five activities or ways students can document or show evidence in their learning. The reading contract is aimed around a book or study for the week, and the maths could be used for gathering evidence over a longer period of time or time focusing on a particular strategy. Both of these are customizable, just make a copy of the template and make changes that suit your class! Find the contracts here! Do your students use Seesaw for recording? I was on the Seesaw facebook page the other night and saw someone requesting a self assessment rubric or chart for their students to use. So I just finished making this one for teachers and students to use! In my classroom we currently have a self assessment scale with the three colours: I can do it, I'm getting there, I need some help. This rubric ties into that so it all aligns for my class. You can download a copy of this for yourself and your classroom here: Seesaw Recording Self Assessment Rubric There is also a blank version for you to add your own self assessment pictures or codes to. You can download a copy of that one here: Seesaw Recording Self Assessment Rubric blank Seesaw is the bomb and I have worked on creating loads of templates for teachers to use alongside Seesaw to share different parts of their learning. There are some for literacy (reading and writing) and also maths. The link to all the Seesaw templates are in my Google Drive that I have shared as part of this website. It has loads of other resources in it, but the Seesaw ones are also a big part of it! Check out the link to the Google Drive here, where you can get access to all the resources below plus more!  1-100 Magic numbers: perfect for a number of the day or week activity Addition 1-100 game board templates: addition 1-100 game board templates that can be used on Seesaw for addition practice Calendar Maths/number of the day: these are for senior students using Seesaw to show evidence of the number of the week Christmas maths addition templates: christmas themed maths addition templates Daily Organisers/number of the day: these templates are perfect for any age students focusing on a number of the week with different activities Handwriting templates: templates that can be used for handwriting practice HFW game boards: HFW game board templates that can be used on Seesaw for HFW practice Letter of the week: letter of the week templates that focus on a letter you might be focusing on. There are different activities for the letter Maths addition and subtraction templates: these templates are great for showing different addition and subtraction templates to solve equations or problems. Maths division templates: these templates are great for showing different ways of working out a division equation or problem. Maths multiplication templates: these templates are great for showing different ways of working out a multiplication equation or problem Number identification templates: these templates are great for number knowledge practice or identification. Practice your numbers 1-20: these templates show many different activities for numbers 1-20. Spelling templates: these templates provide different ways for practicing their spelling Word of the week: these templates allow students to practice their HFW in many different ways to reinforce knowledge and practice. Word of the week templates (second edition): these templates allow students to practice their HFW in many different ways to reinforce knowledge and practice. Click on the links to view the templates and use these in your classroom! Have you downloaded these Seesaw ebooks yet? Seesaw: An overview for Teachers is a simple to read ebook that explains how easy Seesaw is for you and your students! It takes you through how to get set up using Seesaw, the positives, tips and tricks to using it with links to resources that might help you along the way. Download this as a pdf here: http://bit.ly/seesawebook Download it and read it on itunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/seesaw/id1417466004?mt=11 40 ways to use Seesaw in your classroom is to provide teachers with 40 activities, resources and ways to use Seesaw within your classroom! This is perfect for those who need ideas, templates or activities for reading, writing or maths! Download this as a pdf here: http://bit.ly/seesawebook2 Download it and read it on itunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/40-ways-to-use-seesaw-in-your-classroom/id1435552566?mt=11 I am always looking for new ways of getting students engaged and using Seesaw in a meaningful way. The opportunities with Seesaw are really limitless and thats what makes it so great to use in any classroom! My new Seesaw resources adapts one originally created by @mickie_mueller/@tracipiltz; which I have then modified for a reading and maths type contract activity! You can find the original here. The aim is for students to use it as a reading or maths contract over a week, and share evidence of their learning using the different tools Seesaw offers! The great thing is this can be adapted or changed to suit your students needs or levels! Perfect for any age. Each contract has five activities or ways students can document or show evidence in their learning. The reading contract is aimed around a book or study for the week, and the maths could be used for gathering evidence over a longer period of time or time focusing on a particular strategy. Both of these are customizable, just make a copy of the template and make changes that suit your class! Find the contracts here! Do your students use Seesaw for recording? I was on the Seesaw facebook page the other night and saw someone requesting a self assessment rubric or chart for their students to use. So I just finished making this one for teachers and students to use! In my classroom we currently have a self assessment scale with the three colours: I can do it, I'm getting there, I need some help. This rubric ties into that so it all aligns for my class. You can download a copy of this for yourself and your classroom here: Seesaw Recording Self Assessment Rubric There is also a blank version for you to add your own self assessment pictures or codes to. You can download a copy of that one here: Seesaw Recording Self Assessment Rubric blank I presented my second Seesaw presentation today at U-learn 2018. This one was still focusing on Seesaw, but how you can integrate it with other apps in literacy. This focused on 'app-smashing' - using multiple apps to produce an end product. If you would like access to my presentation to see my slides, please visit bit.ly/jordanpriestleyseesaw2! It shows you step by step examples on how to use the apps, activities you can use it with and how to share it to Seesaw! Lots of fun if you have some free time. Today I presented at a New Zealand teacher conference - U-learn. It was a great way to share with other educators, providing some help on how to use Seesaw within literacy. We worked on some activities, explored the seesaw activity library and then made some of our own! I had fun delivering this session and hope the people attending did too! If you were unable to attend and want access to the slide deck that I shared, please visit bit.ly/jordanpriestleyseesaw1 to make a copy for yourself! PicCollage is one of those fabulous apps that can be utilised in any curriculum area with your students! The possibilities are endless with using PicCollage so today I am going to share some quick tips on using PicCollage! I created these worksheets which are perfect for use with PicCollage or Seesaw! There is a little bit of everything inside this pack that can be used in both apps or just one! These worksheets are available for download from my Teachers Pay Teachers Store! Find the link here >> PicCollage and Seesaw Worksheets So let me walk you through how PicCollage works (just incase you haven't seen it before). PicCollage is basically a way to collage pictures (hence the name). It has some fabulous tools inbuilt into it! Each of these are accessible once you have chosen your picture. For this example, my students are working on a retell activity. They have their worksheet as the background, then will add drawings, pictures or text to fill in the parts. The tools you can use are: adding photos, searching the web for photos, adding text, adding stickers, changing the background colour and doodling (drawing). The first thing when using PicCollage and these worksheets is to choose your worksheet. This one here is a 'find the letter' activity that students would use to find things beginning with the letter of the week. Choose this as your background! To access the tools to add things click on the + at the bottom of your screen. You can see here I have used the 'doodle' feature to draw the letter of the week which is B. I then have inserted photos of things beginning with B from the web search and given text to each picture to explain what it is I have chosen. When you search for web pictures it is very simple! You type the word you are looking for in the search bar, look for your picture and simply tap it and then the tick! Your picture will then be added to your work and you can move it about or resize it to fit a space you have. When you have completely finished your work, tap the done button up the top and click save to library when it prompts you! Uploading your finished product to Seesaw is easy! Open up Seesaw, tap the green + and then tap camera roll. Choose your finished work from your camera roll and tap the green tick. Follow the prompts to finish adding it to your journal. You are done! Fantastic!! Easy to use and so much fun! This would be a Modification or Redefinition activity in the SAMR model as students are taking a usual drawing activity to a whole new level. Searching for images, using text, sharing it to a platform for feedback and connecting with other students in class by giving feedback! Here are two more examples of how I have used it in my class, with more to come! 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