 Welcome to Getting Started Part 2 for grades 6 through 12. Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to be here with us. And I just wanted to share that I'm Cara Brum. I am a CESA ambassador, a third through fifth grade teacher for 19 years, and then I jumped into middle school math and have been there ever since. And so I'm enjoying the middle school life teaching seventh grade math coming to you from Cary, North Carolina. You can connect with me and feel free to on Twitter at Mrs. Brum tweets and on Instagram at Mrs. Brum math. So thanks so much for being with us. We do have certificates available to show that you have completed this CESA course and if you are watching live, your certificates will be emailed to you. If you are watching a recording of this, you will need to listen for a code during the session. It is a six digit code and then you will need to fill out the form to get the certificate using that six digit code. So thank you so much for being with us and willing to learn and share and spend your free time. You're here because you are ready to know what to do now. What do I do next? I'm getting started and I want to know what to do next. So if you're here, you've already watched the getting started with CESA part one and that was probably with me and I was hosting it. So thanks for coming back for more, but hopefully you've already watched that. That's why you're here for part two. You have also already created a teacher account and a class and that was something that we went over in part one on how to create a class. So you have your teacher account and your class created and we are going to jump in here to talk about what we're going to explore today. So today we are going to get you started with students and really dive into the things that you can do and the steps that you can take and a checklist that will help you to ensure that you're off to a good start and you feel successful and your students do as well. We're going to talk about connecting families and how that can benefit you even in the middle and high school classrooms and also dive a little bit into the CESA activity library where there are thousands of ideas that you can implement in your classroom and really make fit the content of your curriculum and your course. If you have questions, we will have a nice chunk of time if you're alive with us to do a question answer session and I'm excited about having those questions from you. So if you have them, please feel free to type them in and I'm going to take a look at them towards the end if you are alive with us. You can get today's slides at the Bitly that you see at the bottom of your screen. Feel free to grab that. And again, if you are watching this live, then that will be emailed to you with the recording and the certificate. If you're watching a recording, feel free to grab the slides from that Bitly. All right, let's get started with our students. Now that we have an idea and you've been in as a student in my classroom where I was the teacher, now we're transferring that power to you, you're getting started with your students and we're going to walk through what you can use to help you get started. The first thing you would want to do would be to add your students to your class and I briefly went over in the part one of how to add the students. You would need to consider thinking about how are you going to add them? Do you have a school email or a school Google that they can use? Most middle and high schools have one of those if not both of those. Or if you do not, totally completely fine, you can use the class code sign in. That's what we used in the part one professional development getting started and that's also totally fine. These are printable so that you can follow this step by step and I think it's really handy for you to have them to print and keep by your side and you have access to them there through those Bitlys that you can have if you'd like to just, some people just like to hold on to it. You want to hold on and determine how are you going to get your students in and then we're going to dive into the getting started guide. So the getting started guide can be found at the Bitly you see there, bit.ly slash seesaw getting started. Please know that's case sensitive so if you're typing it in and not clicking on it, it is case sensitive. There are different types of getting started guides the whole way from kindergarten through high school. One thing to know is that there will be a big long list there. For our purposes six through 12 we all have the same getting started guide so I think that you'll appreciate that and I'm actually going to give a little click on it and walk you through it so we can take a look here. The getting started guide this is where you would go to it goes right to the seesaw help center and you can see that you get to pick and choose your grade level so even if I'm saying I'm an eighth grade teacher and I click on the eighth grade getting started guide what you can see is that the final copy here is six through 12 so anything six through 12 is all the same so you can take a look at this PDF with me. We're going to walk through it so you feel comfortable with what's here. Hopefully maybe you got even a chance to browse it a little bit or you've used it which if you have that's awesome. The first thing you have this table of contents whoops I'm going a little fast here for myself but you can see, excuse me there we go you could just flip right where you want to go and say oh I just want to be on page six because I want to get my students hands on but if you're truly getting started we do walk teachers through of what is seesaw even if you know you have a teacher friend who has not watched my part one they could use this getting started guide to get them going and we can you know see here from this great visual how we begin and how it is very cyclical and how you know there's a process but you know you can get yourself started and I love the images that go with it I think that works really great with the flow of seesaw and where you start to where you go there's also how seesaw works and this just talks briefly about the views in seesaw which we did talk about in part one so that student view versus the teacher view and they are very similar I'm sure you've noticed that just basically the parts and the pieces and all of this would just be simply for the free seesaw version if you have a paid version there are other features that you might be able to use but this kind of really just shows the basics here for both students and teachers and the views and has a brief description below that there is one of my favorite things which is the teacher checklist so it's a step-by-step guide that allows you to say okay I created my account check which hopefully you're already there you created your class check right and then you're ready to add your students so I just wanted to very briefly go back into a brand new class that I created and this is brand new here like I don't have any other classes this is what it would look like if you were brand new and getting started and you just added one class so most 6 through 12 teachers teach more than one class period every school calls it their own thing but you can add more classes in here and name them whatever you would like to name them and once you have that class in there every time you add a new class whether it's your first time adding a class or your 25th time adding a class this video is going to pop up and feel free to watch that video if you are getting started but in addition to that that will go away as soon as you put your first post in there the way you're going to add your students is through this plus button down here you're going to add students and you can click on that this is where you're going to decide do you want students to sign in to CSI using their Google account or email address so if you have a school Google account for students if you have a school email address for students you would say yes and I think the majority of us may fall into that category but there are going to be some schools that do not totally fine you would say no I'll show you both real quick if you said no and we use shared devices because my students were not one to one some kids maybe bring their own device every school situation is different so we'll just say we're shared devices and this is where you can add names add the names in there and what I would recommend that you do is have at least six names in it's six is kind of a CSI magic number you can also which is my favorite here is paste the list of names in so copy it from something that you already have and paste those names in but remember it's one per line you have that six is CSI magic number when you're doing this because then it won't send you any reminders about how you need to add more students and what it will do when you click the green check to submit is that it gives you this step by step of how to get the students signed in now remember we chose signing in with a class code so what that means is we're scanning this code and that's what we did when we signed in this is also for the getting started part one this is also a place where you can print that student sign in poster I use this poster for the getting started part one this was the one I talked about it showed images of where we don't put you know don't put it on social media or have it hanging in your room or you're going to take pictures and post those to social media but this is a great thing if you're using this to just laminate that and hang it up in your room for the entire school year but that's one way to get started another way to get started and what I'm going to do is I'm going to create a new class so we're going to say new class 2 maybe that's my second period if your school already has Google classroom set up you can import your class list I know some schools set that up for teachers ahead of time they call it whatever they want to call it but you can import directly from there or you can just create your own class you know 11th grade and then from here again you'll see that video because I haven't posted anything as soon as I post the first thing it's going to that's going to go away and now I have my students here and I want to say do I want to use the Google or email address yes and look I don't have to put a single name in because what I'm doing is following the directions here where they are going to join my class then they're going to use either their Google email and sign in and then I can also email directions to my students so that maybe that's homework and you're like check your email your homework is signed into my CSAW class and you can get each one of your class periods you know send them send your emails out that way as well just to ensure that everybody gets connected if you run out of time in class or just truly wanted to be a homework assignment so you have all of that in there to add your students and you just saw me add we'll call it a new class period so here's my first period class here's my second period class just by clicking on my name that profile icon and then creating the class so let's go back to that getting started guide because we wanted to make sure that you could create your account create your class and add your students the first thing that you would want to have students do would be whoops I keep going a little too fast there would be to create a post we played around with that and getting started part one where we clicked on the green add button and we were able to play around as a student but what you might choose to do for your students the very first time first period first time let's get to that class you can click on that green add button and what you would do and it even prompts you try posting as a student you would want to post student work then click on that before I do that if you're joining with a recording you would want to write down the first part of your six digit code it is six eight three if you're joining live no worries about the code so from here maybe what I want to do is do a drawing real quick and I want to add a shape I'm just giving an example here play around with this whatever it might be I love seesaw here we go and I'm going to add it in and I'm just a teacher so I want to post it to my sample students journal because I'm just demonstrating in my class that's a really handy one to have turned on in your settings and keep that and it even prompts me oh you need to save your post too long that green check is going to do that and that's my sample and my students will would be listed in there and I can see the posts that they have notice here because I'm the teacher and I posted that I'm not going to need to approve any posts and you might have seen the approve posts in the part one getting started but since I'm the teacher I'm posting I don't need to approve my own posts but all of my students I can still have turned approve the posts by going to the wrench and clicking on new items require approval that's a default that's turned on if I wanted to turn that off I'd simply click on it again you can go through all of those settings and determine you know you have your teacher autonomy and determine what you would like to have so there's a post that I added I played around it's okay for you to play around add those posts you can delete any of the posts you want to delete you know just play for a little bit there's nothing wrong with that you would also want to make sure that your devices have seesaw on them and that just like when we connected the first time that the microphone and the camera tool are enabled so whatever you need to say to say yes I want to use those make sure you do that if you are it says print and hang your class qr poster that would be for anyone who is not using the Google or not using the email sign in that's the class code qr poster and then complete the seesaw student challenge with your class well if I look at the next page like it says that's where I'm going to find that student challenge and what we want to think about here is we're getting students ready to you know to really dive into seesaw but also we're setting up our routine we're setting up the procedures for our thought process when adding to seesaw even before we dive into actually adding a post or getting in so what's the purpose for keeping up portfolio seesaw is a portfolio to capture that learning to create to reflect to demonstrate and what's our purpose so having a conversation and you know time is precious in middle and high school trust me I understand I live the bell schedule so 10 minutes you know 10 minutes at the beginning of a class intentionally planning that in is something I found I needed to do because if I just was like well we'll see if there's time it time didn't just you know come out of thin air you know what that's like so intentionally planning for your lesson one lesson one doesn't have to be day one of school lesson one is the first day you choose lesson one to be lesson two signing in and signing out that's just 10 minutes to get them in get them into their accounts sign in get them out right how do I sign in how do I sign out and again lesson two might not be on day two it might not be the day after lesson one it's when do I have another block of 10 minutes I can dedicate to this we talked about portfolios two days ago but you're on an AB schedule and you're not going to see them for two days that's fine you know all of our our little ins and outs of how our own school buildings work we can we can work around that with seesaw is so flexible to make this work and get you started and get your students in as well so once the students are in then what are my expectations for devices and posts like I just need to go over the rules here as the teacher what do you want what are appropriate behaviors how do you want them to use devices maybe it's your devices that you got through a grant so you're really super protective of them maybe it's school devices that you should be you know pretty cautious and protective over maybe it's their own devices what are your expectations when they walk through the room are they just grabbing and using their device at will do you have a you know a red light green light kind of situation where maybe green is we're going to use the device right away today so pull it out get it started red is keep it shut off I don't want to see it all day yellow would be hey we're going to use it but I'll tell you when so there's different kinds of routines and procedures you could use and this is a really great just quick five minutes you know and building up to ok now the fourth time this is where we can take a picture and add some labels and this is the same activity that we did in getting started part one where you took a picture and added labels this is a student taking a picture of themselves taking that selfie adding some text labels to describe themselves and then adding adding it into their into their portfolio so we're trying to get you comfortable with it so that your students can be comfortable setting in recording goals so that would be using the draw tool by just capturing and sketching out what are some goals they have for your class what are goals they have in science or in you know AP calc or whatever it might be that you're teaching that you can use seesaw for based off of your curriculum your content area and then eventually getting into that video tool now notice when we look at the time for these setting in recording goals takes a little bit longer than just snapping a picture right your students are going to be a little bit more self aware and self conscious about what they want these quote drawings to look like so you know you can change the suggested you know make it be your own of course but they're going to need a little bit more time for that so 20 minutes is a suggestion but you work in however you want to work it in the same with the video tool and then finally the last thing would be connecting those families and we're going to talk a little bit more about that in just a second when I just continue to scroll down here it does talk about some ideas for your classroom and the seesaw activity library that has those built in activities for your students will get into that here in just a moment and then some next steps with some badges and things like that for you and of course our social media finally at the end here we have some printables that go along with those activities or those tasks that you could have your students do these are really great to print out and have maybe around the room or hanging in you know on your wall or you know maybe you just want students to do this in stations or a couple kids each day go back to the back table and do these activities and that's completely fine as well I think it's a you know again up to you on how you use this getting started guide but the idea with these tasks and these lessons are for you to build upon them progressively add in some more complex things and make it work for you for your content of course if you have you know want to get some ideas on how to do that reach out on social media we're happy to help with all of that but I think that it's that it's important to you know just have a place to the springboard to jump off on all right let's get back here and see where we're headed next connecting families is something that I think is underrated in middle and high school and yes we do want our students to become independent and self-sufficient but their parents they actually want to know what's going on and they might not get all the pieces to the puzzle and I found that connecting my middle school families I had less email I had less questioning and I wasn't posting every day and my students weren't posting every day but I was able to get those families in and have them see what we were doing and have them be a part of our classroom enough that they felt comfortable knowing that their children were on the right path and in the right track and that I was looking out for their child as well so I'm going to go back in here into our class live and just share with you right down at the bottom of the teacher was where we added our students that plus students but right here is where we would add our families and just to keep in mind when I click on that this is where I would turn on my family access what does that mean though families would see all of the posts that their child is posting so when you're signing up with Google and or email they're just connected to their own child when you're signing up with the class QR code they're connecting with their own child so they're not seeing a whole big list of everyone in the class I promise you that families get notified about new posts but the cool thing about that in my opinion is they choose when they want to get notified and how they get notified so do they want it through an email do they want it through a text message do they want to just push through the app and send to them and then teachers can choose to privately message families or send big announcements to families so once you turn that on it's a matter of connecting families see so it gives those paper invitations and a question that I get asked often is well how many languages there's about 15 different languages in here and you know you can take a look here of all these languages that are available to print out the the family directions in so for example I have sent home traditional Chinese I print those paper invites but only one of my students needs traditional Chinese I don't print the whole class right so what I would do is even though the whole thing is in traditional Chinese I want to show you this because I think this is kind of cool and important even though the whole thing is in there as traditional Chinese what I can do is just scan and look where is the student that needs it I know what their family home languages or they've passed they said hey that's actually what happened in my classroom they said hey is there you know I know you mentioned that if our families needed a different language and Andrea's family needed it then here's the directions in traditional Chinese for Andrea's family and I just print whatever page this was it said it was just print page three or whatever it might be so I don't have to print the whole class I did have really great success getting families connected in my middle school classroom and I didn't bombard or I didn't feel like I bombarded families but I was able to send announcements to families and make them feel a part of it and I was also able to send announcements to students as well so I thought that was pretty awesome and could choose I just want to send this to students I want to send it to families and students and I thought that it worked really well for what I needed in my middle school setting so these are some things that I just wanted to share with you as well before you actually invite families you might want to make sure that there's a post already in there so they don't join seesaw and they're like so now what right it could be a post from you and if you choose to post your two ideas welcoming families with a video or a post like just a quick welcome message picture of yourself right with an audio over top just introducing yourself or actually a video and they give you some ideas what's most important here is that if you do this as a teacher that you share it to all the students and that tells you that there so that all the families can see the message that you're leaving this is also really pretty awesome as well this web dot seesaw dot me slash families on a curriculum night back to school night where you have families attention to come to your building and they really want to learn you can just use right directly from this page and scroll down through this page and there's a quick video also available in Spanish and French but a quick video that will take families through a quick little overview of telling about seesaw and can families connecting through the family app and you know even getting families connected right there on the spot and then allowing them to have the family app tutorial and more information about family connection so that's just directly from the seesaw site of course you can certainly share that link but if you have a captive audience depending on your time schedule right we all know what that's like when you're living those situations you could choose to use that and find it pretty helpful alright I already showed you that but there is a printable of how to invite families and show you the steps of how to get that all hooked up and I gave you the quick version of that in my demo just a moment ago including changing that language so once you have those you can print them out and all of that I want to very quickly show you the seesaw activity library and then we'll get to some questions here in a minute so I want to go in live to show it to you the activities tab right here is what you would click or if you clicked add you can assign an activity once you're ready for that but just to view activities you would go to this light bulb activities tab and then click on browse activity library the activity library has all kinds of amazing things and since I'm brand new I'm getting started with seesaw right here's some brand new getting started for language arts and for math and for science and if I scroll over here I find other various content areas as well you know we tried to hit the big general one certainly if you're something that doesn't apply I'll bet you could find something in here through a search or if you're like well I don't teach ninth grade it shows ninth grade because I believe I picked it when I set up this class maybe you I clicked fourth grade that was unintentional maybe you teach seventh grade but maybe you teach seventh grade and you computer science here we go or maybe you want to search for something very specific you know finding the greatest common factor for math and you want to search that and then you can see varying levels of you know finding greatest common factor but I think that the what I like the best about this is when you're back and you're in that getting started and you're like okay well this is the first time I'm using the getting started I want to just share what's happening here we go it's going to bring up this activity if I want to save this for later I can click the heart that saves it to my library and I can assign it to a class what that means is if I have my first period class and my second period class we'll let's assign it to this class because guess what I have seven students I can click on this and assign it to my whole entire class I can also choose maybe only to assign it to certain students you know there's other things that you can do with that as well and then that's going to take it right to my class so when they click on the activity tab they see the they see the activity they're waiting and the flow for activities is a little bit different and we'll jump back over here and talk about that very quickly and then we'll promise you moving on to questions because I know you have them which is awesome so how does activities work the teacher like you saw shares the activity with the students the students respond using all of those tools that you've already practiced with and then the teachers approve student responses and what I love about that feature is that all those responses are in the same place but that activity library has so many ideas for you to use you can once you click on that heart and you save it to your library you can even edit that activity to make it be your own so if you're going to be in as a teacher and you want to assign an activity you can click that add button and click on assign activity and then once students have added in you'll be able to see all of those responses all in one place and be able to approve the ones you need to approve you would also see like you can read here one did not respond and you'd be able to have a conversation and figure out click on that hey who did not respond well they were absent who did not respond well they just didn't do it and I love that it kind of monitors that for you because that's always you know a big thing especially when you teach multiple courses and you have you know you're talking over a hundred students that you have to just keep up with sees us doing it for you here and I love love love that so remember when you go into activities the first time they're going they're just getting started and progressively get a little bit further ahead so we are live here and going to answer some questions alive but before we do that I wanted to share with everyone who was joining through a recording the last three digits of the code which is one two three so that six digit code has been provided for those who are watching through a recording if you're watching live no worries about the code you'll get your certificate emailed to you all right so if you have not already visited help dot seesaw dot me it is an amazing resource and certainly feel free to connect not only with me but with the community at large