 Hey everyone, this is level up seesaw activities and hey, I'm really excited that you're here. I'm Angela from seesaw And I want to introduce Chris our presenter today Chris Shiner is a technology integrationist who works primarily with pre-k through fifth grade teachers in the prior Lake School district. Well prior Lake, Minnesota, so he's really close by to me actually He is also a former kindergarten teacher and I am so excited that Chris is here because if you are on Twitter or in our Facebook groups, I think maybe even on Instagram to Chris is constantly sharing his amazing Activity ideas and lots of amazing templates that he has built So we are thrilled to have him here today showing it some of his I mean mind-blowing really is what I'm gonna say Ways that he's using and creating with seesaw activities and supporting so many students and teachers. So Chris welcome Thank you. Thank you so much for inviting me and I'm really excited to be here, too If you guys don't really know a lot about kind of how this is going There is that quick bitly link that's on here That'll take you to all of the activities that I've ever put into seesaw, which is like 300 something at this point A little bit more about me is even though I'm a tech integrationist We really focus a lot on instructional coaching So a lot of the activities that I build are super purposeful to go straight into the classroom and really just enhance learning for all kids So I really encourage you guys to check out some of our activities and see what's out there because some of them are pretty Awesome, and we'll get to show you some of those today Today we're gonna actually go through three different styles. We're gonna see how to use them I'm gonna walk you through how to make them and then the very end will actually answer questions and one big thing I want you guys to kind of take away in one challenge I guess for you is to just kind of listen and learn all of the process that's going on and see if you can take one or two Things away that you can put into an activity of your own So I'm gonna give you all the templates But there could be something that you could add as a different layer To a different activity or something that you wanted to just grab and quickly put into something else So that's kind of my extra little challenge that I actually didn't write in here. Okay We're gonna go ahead and get started right away with puppet pals Puppet pals is one of my favorite activities. That's ever been built if you have played the actual app puppet pals It's really similar to that. So it's like a partner video game It gives the students a ton of freedom to do what they need to do and it caters to really any Content the example. I'm gonna show you today is actually about the American revolution So that's a big unit that our fourth graders are studying right now And I'm gonna show you actually how that's gonna look what I'm gonna do right now is switch over to my iPad There we go. Look at that. It worked and open up seesaw. Okay This little floating thing. This is my finger. So everybody kind of knows you can see where I'm clicking You can see exactly what I'm talking about What I'm gonna do is go up to the big green plus and Click on create or share activity because we're actually gonna like start from square one and build this activity from nothing I'm gonna go over here to create a new activity And let's title this American whoa American revolution Puppet pals, okay I'm gonna skip directions today just for the sake of saving a little bit of time I'm gonna go down here to add a template and what I have in my camera roll is I have an actual picture of like The the signing of the the declaration or something like that It's something similar to that But it's just something that has to deal with the American revolution I'm gonna click on check to actually add this in and before I click check again I'm gonna put some layers on so I want my students to have like these little Emoji people that they can manipulate and talk with so what I'm gonna do is go down to label and Put in our two different emoji people so the first one is gonna be a British person I'm gonna choose to do it kind of like this today. There really isn't a great like Person or emoji that distinguishes between different countries, which is awesome But it also makes this one just a little bit challenging. I'm gonna click on style and Get rid of the background There it is. Okay, so I have one person. Oops. Sorry. I have one person finished my British man is all done I'm gonna add in one more person and this will be like an American judge. Let's say, okay All right. Awesome. I'm gonna hit check just to kind of show you what the students would actually get They get a template that looks what just like this I mean, there's two different people and what they're gonna do is actually two students will come up and They can both manipulate this at the same time. So they'd say something like We are the 13 colonies and we want our freedom and that's British man would say you can't we have to be ruled by You know King George III or whatever They would just hit record make that a whole fun video Turn it in when they're all finished up So you as a parent and as a teacher are gonna get this awesome student-owned Explanation of their actual work Hit check. Okay So that's really it for puppet pals I mean, we're just gonna fly through all of these that's in here The coolest thing about this one like I told you is the student ownership that's in this It's really a fun one for kids of all ages and it can be catered to any content Our second one is actually the fact find And this one really has to deal with like nonfiction texts Like let's give our kiddo something that is gonna allow them to explore facts in a little bit different way So what we're gonna start with is a fun little engaging template Which for today is gonna be this awesome cute little raccoon And what we're gonna do is put some like hide some facts inside of it So I'm gonna switch back all the way into the seesaw here And we're starting in the main screen because again, I want to show you from start to finish how this actually works Go up to the big green plus Create or share activity Okay, and we're gonna start a new one start from scratch here. This one will be called fact find Raccoon Awesome, there it is. I might type a few directions in here just for this example click on add whoopsies And okay through click on Label you'll see why in just a second three click on Oops move. Sorry move the A Spotlight to find the facts move this one All right, I know that's supposed to say spotlights So we're just gonna move on because I want to show you guys what it looks like Okay, add a template from our camera roll because again, I already saved this and Here it is. Here's our cute Totally adorable little raccoon that we're gonna add in and he was gonna hit check One thing that's important with this template is this little Spotlight section here What this does is it creates a spot for us to actually put this little magnifying glass and you'll see why and how in just a Second here, so I'm gonna go down to the label and actually put all of the layers onto this What I always always always start with anytime I'm making one of these like hidden texts or mystery Activities or anything like that is to put the spotlight in first What I like to do is do five spaces one two three four five and a period okay? Once I'm finished with that. I'm gonna click on style Custom and bump the size up to like 55. Let's say Make the text white Keep the background but then add in a border whoops add in a border and make that white as well So everything kind of matches. It looks really nice. Let's make the width like four and round the corners Okay, so here we go. There is our spotlight on that. That looks pretty sweet Okay, I might add or make it just a tiny bit bigger there. That looks even better Okay So here's our spotlight the reason why you want to put that on very first is because that's gonna be the thing That's like closest to the background So it's gonna really like actually float behind all of the hidden words that we have So the next thing I'm gonna do is start to add in some of those hidden words Let's start with a fact like raccoons are knock Turno Okay With these words. I'm gonna click style Go back to custom and actually get rid of the background. I want to get rid of the background get rid of the border And shrink this like as tiny and as hidden and as I can let's see if we can hide it over here Okay, once I have kind of the spot. I want it to land I'm gonna use the color board on the right to like Make it disappear See if I can get a close color. Oh Right there. Look at that. Oh, it's gone. Okay It's you can still see it a little bit, but it's really close. I'm gonna add in one more fact They have bandit Bandit what bandit mask maybe they have a bandit mask. That's kind of cool. Okay, and let's actually put that like right on the mask itself Go down to black That's gone. Okay They have a ring tail Fun little fact there. Let's put that over here Hide that close to his fur Somewhere in here Fun look at that. Okay. I'm not going to do any more facts You can put in as many facts as you really want. Um a sweet spot for me is to find like Five different facts or so that's just kind of Helps the students to have a number that helps them to know how many that they can actually get to so Students will get a template that looks like This there's nothing selected. It's hard to see these texts. They're kind of hidden But they can use this magnifier to find what they want. So they're gonna grab the magnifier And start to float around Let's see if we can find one Oh, look at that You see how that kind of pops out like that? Super fun. Super awesome. We found a bandit mask. Keep going Raccoons are nocturnal awesome In the last one They have a ring tail or ringed tail. Whatever you want to say so super super fun I love to finish an activity like this with students recording And reading like the five facts that they found or whatever it is. So it's manageable for kids It's fun for kids And they end up getting something out of it before they're all finished up So that's it for fact fine. We went super quick through that one too The last one and one of my absolute most favorite is actually One that we have a ton of templates for it's the mystery board game So the mystery activities all relate to having that little The magnifying glass the spotlight whatever you want to call it it relates to having that and hiding Different pieces that are in it. So this is actually a game board that deals with dice And some of those hidden elements too What i'm going to show you is how to take an existing board game an existing Template or activity that's out there for seesaw And put it into your class by changing some things and catering it to your classroom So what i'm going to do i'm going to swipe back to my ipad Starting from square one here I'm going to click on the plus Browse activity library And Straight from the seesaw library. I'm going to click and type in mystery board game Okay And i'm actually going to well you see it is right there. That's the one I wanted to use awesome I wasn't going to change my grade level, but I don't have to so we've tried to put these in every single grade So anybody can go and grab these as you go This is actually a really really good example because this one is built for addition What i'm going to do is actually change it to be like Upper elementary vocabulary You'll see as we go through this you can change these Templates to really be anything to match your content actually just the other day Um, we went into a fifth grade classroom And what I did is I changed all of those things that were hidden in there to be like long division problems So one of the problems was like, I don't know 512 divided by 16 or something a super super hard problem So the students had to move to it and actually compute something like that before they were able to to get to that place But I'm getting off track here. I'm going to show you actually how to do this now So I have my mystery board game I'm going to go down to the three dots And I'm going to edit this activity. It forces me to copy and edit simply because this is one that Was in the seaside library. It might not be owned by me even if it is I still have to copy and edit it. Okay Everything comes with directions title all the awesome stuff that we really want What I am going to do is change the directions because this is not A oh actually it is just kidding. I thought it said addition in here We're going to go and actually change the template since all of this looks good I thought the word addition was hidden, but it's not Click on student template And everything is kind of already built in here and it's not Easy to see actually because that's kind of the goal is we got everything hidden. So I'm going to go to this first one double click with our label And right now it says three plus four. It's super kind of hard and faded to see But we're going to change this again to be upper elementary vocabulary. So I'm going to write in the word like Frigid Whoops G I D there we go frigid Shrink it just a tiny little bit so it fits in there. Awesome The next word will double tap. It's already here. We're going to change it. Let's change it to be like Retain. Okay. We're doing some mca practice Right now in some classrooms and this would be a phenomenal way to get our kids engaged. Oops. Sorry in a little bit Different way shrink. Come on There we go shrink. Okay Next word Let's do add and shrink it down Okay, last word here. I don't know avalanche Probably spelled that one awesome. Okay Shrink and put it in there. Awesome. So I just changed four quick words You can go through and change the whole thing like I said all of these are already done So there's a label that's color matched all the way around the entire board So you have a lot of different opportunities for your students to land on something and showcase what they know I just changed four for example sake What the students would do now is again, they're going to get a template like this There's nothing that's indicating what they have to do But they can see that there's it's a two player game. There's two different colors. There's the red player There's the blue player What they're going to do is roll a dice and let's say I get a one I'm going to land on this and actually tell you what the definition of the word frigid is Okay, if I tell my partner right and it's the exact answer Awesome, I get to stay here and now it's my partner's turn. Okay Let's say it's the other person's turn. It's johnny's turn. He rolls a four one two Three four They get the word avalanche if I tell you what it is I get to stay if not I have to move on back And that's just kind of how the game is played I guess so That's that's really how this game kind of works as far as the dynamics of it all There's a lot of different templates that are here I'm just going to go back and quickly source through it just to show you This is a really colorful rainbow version But there are just some plain plain white ones too if you wanted to really easily color match things mystery board Whoops game Whoops, you got to hit search there Okay, and let's change it to be all grade levels So you can kind of see some of these that are here. We have a little bit different style right there Um, we have the same one here, but four kindergarten sight words, which is the best Two-digit addition all these things are all in here and again You can get to all of our templates and all the things that I put up on cisa through that quickly that We're going to flash back on before we're finished Okay So that's kind of all I had for you guys I know I flew super super fast and we still have a little bit of time just for questions But I wanted to make sure that you guys saw everything from like the thousand foot view And then we can dive into some questions as we keep on going here So does anybody have any Okay, I know everybody's mind is blown. I I know that would happen So Chris, can you go into your cisa class for a moment and can you actually show Can you show a student response using a sample student? So they see basically the the student what they're actually I mean you kind of demoed it But just so they can see the flow so they're We're going to tap the add the green add button on the activity. Sorry. I'm flying too fast Yeah, no here And add it to yeah start with that. Yeah. Yep. Choose your class. Perfect and now shared it. Yep So we can if you if you're not yet aware of this in as a teacher you can actually model Activities for your students too and even play around as a sample student So when chris goes ahead on that american revolution puppet pals, he can tap that green add button on the activity And once he does that He will he can choose to be the sample student to demonstrate and model what it would look like as a real Student to respond to this activity so Again, if you're not aware yet When you're doing activity students at any point can go on the top and and view the instructions again But the big key here is whenever you have added labels or things on top of images like chris has here in the template The first thing that students have to do is they have to tap that t So when they tap that t that gives them access to move and manipulate those labels Those are your movable objects. So can you show us that chris? Perfect. Yep So then someone had asked earlier how are both students Working on this they're sharing a device. So they are you know, we have student a that's maybe you know The united states and we have student b that you know is playing the other character So that is how they're collaborating together together and using those, you know critical thinking skills as well um That was awesome. So thanks for sharing that chris and I think if you are using chris's template said he's already created he's done a ton of the work for you in the sense that He's created the little spotlights or the magnifier glasses magnifying glasses that will see and uncover some of those other Aspects in the activity as well. So you don't have to start from scratch even though now, you know and have the skills to do that So that's phenomenal. Thanks for showing that chris. I'm going to jump into some questions that are coming um Oh, can you show the pointer like if people are recording? This is something that's available on if you're using ipad specifically. So once one student hit the record button Um in this scenario right here There's actually an arrow that shows up that they could use and point on the screen as well If that is something that they want to do but it only shows up after you hit record So now you see the little arrow pointer down there Uh, that is not that is on ipads only at this point. Okay, so Um Yeah, go ahead one last thing is um, I've gotten this before where like when teachers are using this They're like you that ugly box is showing up But even though you're recording it and doing this when I hit check that box like disappears for students Yeah, so even though you see that now for kids It goes away when you actually process all of this stuff and it goes on through so it makes a really nice clean videos Yeah Love it. Love it. Um christy is asking she's used your Magnifying glass activities And she's saying my students were able to move the hidden words with a label tool. How do you avoid this problem? That is yeah, yeah, go ahead. What would you say chris? Yeah, i'm gonna go and show you actually what I would do. Sorry. This is uploading here Um, what I when I go into a classroom and I model that for teachers and for students I actually teach the kids to put the magnifying glass or the spotlight back in the spot Because um kind of like how you saw is that's the last layer So if you leave it behind a word and try to move it again, you're gonna move the word Instead of the spotlight So you actually have to kind of teach kids to like float behind the word and figure out what it is or the fact and then put it back Up in that top right spot Yeah, that's a good one. Um, wendy is wondering christ you must have seen some of your other templates that you have Uh regarding calendar math So she's wondering how do you do? Put base 10 blocks and coins on a template for students to manipulate So i'm gonna start i'm gonna start answering this question Maybe while you kind of dig into your what you've already got in the activity library showing this Um, so chris has a great trick for building base 10 blocks again. He's really just using labels so At this point That's the only way you can create movable objects in csa's by using the label feature Uh, and then coins i'll be interested to see how you talk about that one christ. Yeah, that's an interesting one Um, so I just went to a blank template. Um kind of like you can do with anything You can add layers to any template So i'm showing you this on a blank template But keep that in mind that if even if you had like a quick number since one or those calendar math templates You can still put these layers on it So uh with the emojis what i'm gonna do is click label click the emoji keyboard And i'm gonna go to the spot so you guys can all see i'm gonna scroll scroll way over Here until I get to this section right here And uh, believe it or not these two the white and the black one are probably like the perfect base 10 blocks That you can build so i'm gonna build a 10 stick first 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 And uh once I have this I can turn it and I can put it over here sweet. There's one 10 stick Let's build another one label emoji keyboard 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Build another one and here's kind of where the magic happens You can actually take these and layer them on top of each other so that kids have like this This infinite cloner like you have in a smart notebook sometimes You can put up to 50 different labels on one template So you can really give your kids all the tools that they need to make the numbers that they want Regardless of their age or wherever they are. So let's say we wanted them to write the number Let's say 13 because I only have 13 up here Okay, they just go 10 11 12 13 simple straightforward Coins is another conversation And it's one that we've been trying to you know troubleshoot through and it's one that a lot of teachers ask for So what I choose to do is actually put the number Straight in here just with a label and then I change the formatting to try and make it look as much Like a coin as I can so I'm going to click style Go to custom And I'm going to bump the size up just a little bit maybe to like 60 And then add in a like silver Gray background See if I can get that Kind of tricky to hit on this one Okay, oh, that's green Kind of like that And then the border is actually where you're going to get the coin type of a look So we'll make the width a little bit bigger We'll change the rounded corners And uh, we'll just leave that as black. Okay So then oops So then I'll take these edges and just pull it out a little bit so I get kind of a rounded coin like that Um, and that's kind of how I like to make coins. That's that's probably the best way that's out here You can do this exact same thing but put like a letter in there Sorry, I'm jumping around if I wanted to press like N for nickel or uh do q for quarter or whatever So you can do those two And just like the base 10 blocks you can layer these for kids so they can grab them they can do what they need to with them And once you have that stack it's all here for all the kids. So that's that's kind of my quick little how make coins in base 10 blocks Boom we can't stump them. I love it. I love it. Um, okay other questions Other questions coming in chris chris can go on we could probably be here for another 90 minutes sharing all sorts of cool tips So we'll see how we get through here Um, okay more questions coming in Oh christie's wondering is it possible to lock in place option show. She's giving me some feature requests. Thank you christie We do definitely have that noted. We love to listen to our teachers Just a couple things to note So chris is demoing a lot on an iPad here just because of ease of what he was creating However, this works on all devices. So if your kids are rocking Chromebooks in the class Phenomenal this these activities are going to work great on a Chromebook if they're using android devices Um, you're going to be totally fine. So don't think just because he's demonstrating right now on an iPad that it's only going to be for iPad because definitely you can use this on Chromebooks laptops all of that And I think the other thing I'd like to show chris is maybe if you want to go back To browse the activity library and find one of your activities When you click on if you're in the activity library and you actually Find an activity that you really like, you know an author that you really like You can actually click on their name and it's going to take you to their entire collection of activities That they have submitted to csa. So right there. Um chris is covering over his math slide array So he clicks on that activity Um, and then opens up it will actually go to his entire Profile which is what we have Um in that shortcut bit that we shared earlier. So as you can see chris has 323 activities Waiting for you right here So you don't have to do a lot of the ground work that he has already done to kind of create some of these templates and I Boy, I have to tell you every you know every week chris comes up with something Knew that he's figured out to do with activities. So definitely Stay tuned and make sure you you keep checking on his profile here because he's got all sorts of things and I think I think that I really appreciate about Uh chris and the content that he is sharing Number one is he's sharing it with so many teachers and really giving you the ability to modify And may he's worked for your classroom. I also like the fact that a lot of this Is collaborative, you know, so you're they're working with a partner. They're you know rolling dice They're building something and then they're using this activity to kind of record and reflect as well So I think that is just amazing and I know we're at time right now But I want to make sure all the questions get answered But I also want to respect your time So if you have if your mind has already been blown and you are ready to exit We truly appreciate you coming and we hope that you'll come back for more webinars And you know how to reach chris just here via even within seaside. You're going to get a lot of his activities ready to use So we're