 Welcome to CESA 101 for teachers, train the trainer. This session is to train CESA coaches or CESA trainers on how to deliver CESA 101 by modeling it for you. For this session, you will be putting on your teacher cap and going through the PD as a participant. Let's get started. This training is designed to get you up and running on CESA so you can create engaging learning experiences that make thinking and learning visible. Throughout this PD, we will use a handout that is in the description of this video. Throughout this video, you may see things called turn and talks. If you are not watching this video with anyone, every time you see something that says turn and talk, please do an independent think and write. You might be thinking, why CESA? When the right things come together, great things can happen. Please take a moment to pause the video and do a write and think. How can technology support great teaching and learning? Consider the following learning experiences. Here's learning experience A. Students get a math worksheet and they complete it silently on their own. Now let's look at learning experience B. There are student instructions where students are able to decide which version of the game they wanna play. Now we will watch the video attached to the activity. The cards together, this C's got the biggest number. We're gonna move and the big number gets to take the pile and is the winner. If you are watching this video with a colleague, you can pause and do a turn and talk. If you are watching independently, please feel free to do a think and write about which experience you would prefer and why. Please pause the video now. Experience A, only built on narrow skills. While learning experience B, engages students to build, practice, and apply skills in an interactive way. The activity also lives in seesaw. So learning is visible and shows growth over time in the student's portfolio. It also gives students a fun way to learn anywhere. Research shows that students thrive when they can actively explore new ideas and make their thinking and learning visible. Today, we are going to spend our time together on how seesaw supports students to explore and make that learning visible. Our objective for today is to really learn how to use the essential seesaw tools to create engaging learning experiences that make thinking and learning visible for your students. Before we jump in, let's make sure everyone is set up with a seesaw for schools teacher account. Now, as a note, because you will be the presenters, if you are certain that all teachers have activated their accounts prior to the session, you can actually skip part one and skip to part two. This section would need to be personalized based off of your school or district audience. If you are unable to find this email, please make sure that you check your spam folder. If you still do not see it, please email your district tech admin to resend the invite. All you need to do is activate your account. One big benefit of seesaw for schools is that your administrator has everything set up for you. Note that this year, students will sign in with the mode that you see here. We'll cover each sign in mode at getting students started. This slide will need to be modified based off of the mode that your school or district decides to use. Now let's get to the seesaw basics, viewing and creating posts. There are three main ways to view the posts that students create in seesaw. If you have a second device, you are welcome to follow along. If not, please just continue watching the video. First is the journal view. This is your default view when you log in to your teacher account. You'll see all posts from all students in the order that they are posted. The second place to view student work is by clicking on the little calendar icon at the top of your journal feed. Here, you'll be able to see student posts by date. Click on any date in the calendar and see all work posted on that date. Lastly, on the right hand side, you can also click on any student's name in alphabetical order to see a portfolio of work by that student. You can engage students by engaging with their work. You can like their work by clicking the heart or comment using the speech bubble. Other students can like and comment on each other's work as well unless you disable that in the class setting. It is completely up to you as the teacher. Think about why you might wanna use audio comments. Pause the video to take a moment to reflect on this. The green add button in the top right corner is where it all begins. Students post their learning to the class journal by clicking the green add button. You as the teacher can also post to the class journal by clicking the green add button and clicking post student work. You can post work on behalf of your students. You can post resources, photos or videos of your own. When you post this way, students can comment on the post if you have that setting enabled. All student posts and comments must be approved by you, the teacher, before they're added to the class journal. When there is a student post to approve, this bar pops up at the bottom. You'll be able to approve the post, delete the post or send the post back for revision. We've touched on this briefly, but by default all students can see each other's work, including post you tag a student in and comments by you or other students. If you want student work to be private, you can turn this off in class settings. Now you will have an opportunity to explore. Your task is to create a welcome post for your students. Here is an example. Please follow the directions here, but feel free to play around. You will post to all students so that post gets added to each student's journal for them and their connected family member to see. After you post, practice viewing the post in different ways. If you're not ready to post to all students, you can save it as a draft and finish later when you're ready. Your students and families will love seeing this post. Please pause the video and explore now. Now that you've had some experience with CESAW tools, take a moment to think, how do CESAW's learning tools make learning visible? You may have discussed or thought that it gives you the ability to share anything with photos and videos. The Canvas has a microphone that will allow you to talk and record your voice over your work. Pens and labels allow you to annotate an ad explanation and multi-page allows you to show even more great learning. One question many teachers have is when does it make sense to use the green add button to post to the journal? It makes sense for students to post to the journal with the green add button when you give them instructions outside of CESAW. For example, if you say the directions out loud or post them on another platform like Google Classroom, as a teacher, there are three suggestions for when to use the green add button. To post student resources, you want them to view. Remember, students cannot respond to your posts with creative tools. You could also use it to post a discussion question for students to reply to in the comments. Or you can repost exemplar student work with a caption saying why it's exemplar. The green add button is one way students share their thinking and learning on CESAW. They can also respond to activities. Let's look at the activity of library and assign activities. I'll show you the key parts of the activity library, then you will have time to explore. You can access the activity library by clicking on the green add button, then assign activity. You'll be taken to my library. This is where you can save and create activities to assign. Saving activities to my library does not assign them. If you click on the school tab, you'll see your school's library. Yours might say school and district. You'll learn about this library in CESAW 201. Lastly, there is the community library. This is where you'll find free activities created by our community of ambassadors. When you find an activity you like in either the school or community library, you can save it to my library by clicking the heart in the top right corner. You can assign it to your class or multiple classes by clicking assign and following the prompts. You may also find an activity that you like but want to change. You can modify existing activities by clicking the three dots, then copy and edit activity. This allows you to change any aspect of the activity you need to meet the needs of your class. Your copy of the activity will be shown in my library with you as the author. Assigned activities are shown in the activities tab. Students respond by clicking add response. When students submit responses, you can click on the gray bar on the activity to see who has responded, preview their responses, and see who still needs more time to complete their work. Now it's your turn to explore. You are going to explore the parts of a CESA activity. For example, I see that I can add audio directions on CESA activities in the example above. We are going to take a closer look at activities. In the community library, please search for storytelling with drawings by CESA. You will save the activity and then explore the different parts of a CESA activity. Think about what can be included in a CESA activity. You will have the opportunity to play around now. Please pause the video to look at activities. Please take a moment to think about how CESA activities support engaging learning experiences for students. You may have discussed how they allow for multimodal directions and resources to make learning accessible and engaging to all students. Students have access to all CESA learning tools when they respond, which supports creating, exploring, and sharing. Lastly, students have an authentic audience for their work because it's added to their journal, which is accessible to their teachers, administrators, and connected family members. You learn the CESA basics. You learn three ways to view student work, approve student posts, how to post to the class journal, and how to find, save, and assign activities. Great job! Before you go, please make sure to complete your exit ticket. You can find it in the handout attached in the description. You now have experience with CESA's learning tools. On your handout, brainstorm how you can use each learning tool in your classroom. If you want to dig even deeper into CESA, please visit web.cesa.me slash training for free, live, and on-demand trainings on topics like co-teachers, folders, skills, and much more.