From the developers of the popular iPad app Shadow Puppet Edu comes a nice new app called Seesaw. Seesaw is a free iPad app through which students can create a portfolio to document the things they have learned. Students can add artifacts to their portfolios by taking pictures of their work (in the case of a worksheet or other physical item), by writing about what they’ve learned, or by shooting a short video to record something they have learned. Students can add voice comments to their pictures to clarify what their pictures document.

To get started with Seesaw create a free classroom account. Students join the classroom by scanning a QR code (you will have to print it or project it) that grants them access to your Seesaw classroom. As the teacher you can see and sort all of your students’ Seesaw submissions.

Seesaw allows parents to create accounts through which they can see the work of their children. As a teacher you can send notifications to parents when their children make a new Seesaw submission.

Seesaw – Students Build Digital Portfolios on Their iPads (and chromebooks-Paul M.)

Christopher will be doing a 20-minute presentation on Seesaw on Friday morning

PD Plan for Friday

8:00 am – coffee and snacks from Morning Owl Coffee

I. Opening Prayer for the day

II. Seesaw – presentation by Christopher Nixon 8:40 – 9:00 am

III. Innovative Learning Stance: What am I doing differently this year to help achieve the school priorities? What are my critical actions and what do I expect to see as a result of these actions? 9:00 – 11:00

responses from four teachers so far – all teachers have to respond to this survey so I can record your learning at the end of the day

IV. Leveraging Digital – choose one digital tool to work on – it can be seesaw, Edublogs (see below) or some aspect of Discovery PD section here or another tutorial from Atomic.  Please add your choice to the survey (you are able to go in and edit your answers – you will need to do this by the end of the day) What learning can you record (based on your work today)here that we can add to our SIPSaw? This session can be completed at any time during the day before 3:00 pm.  Staff can choose what they want to do for lunch in or outside the school.

staff results of survey