 Hello and welcome everyone to actionable feedback with seesaw and grades kindergarten through second we're so excited to have you here with us today we have an amazing classroom teacher and she's also a seesaw certified educator joining us to share strategies and steps for giving actionable feedback with seesaw that supports student learning and grow. Let me let you know who I am I am Mia. I am the training and professional development specialist here at seesaw. I am also I am based in Chicago, Illinois so I was sharing that with some of you, where it is very cold right now. I am also a former kindergarten teacher so I do have that early childhood experience. And I'm so excited to be here with you tonight. I do have in the back channel, a few of our other friends from seesaw that it will be in the Q amp a and the chat to help answer all of those questions. And now I'm going to have the amazing Caitlyn introduce herself she will be presenting all of this great content for you today. Hi everyone, my name is Caitlyn are a color and I'm a third I'm a currently a third grade teacher, former kindergarten teacher from Redlands, California. I'm excited to be sharing with you all if talk kindergarten for six years and it definitely has a special place in my heart. Today, so we are so excited to have Caitlyn here to share all her amazing expertise so let's go ahead and jump into it so we are going to begin by taking a look at two different types of feedback. And as you review these two different types of feedback, we want you to just think about the differences between each one. So here is the first type of feedback on a seesaw activity. So notice that the teacher has commented on this student work. Good job, keep working on it. Now let's take a look at the second type of feedback. So here's the feedback from the teacher says good job. I see that you were able to fill in your number bond with the whole and the two parts create a number sentence that matches your number bond and use the microphone to explain how you figured out your hole in your two parts. Now that you've taken a look at those two different type of feedback. We would love to hear from you in the chat. What do you think which type of feedback was better and why type your responses in the chat. I'm seeing the responses coming in the chat. The second one was more specific. The second one included ways for the student to improve type B was more concise. Michelle is sharing that details are always best. Alright, I see a lot of people agreeing students benefit the most you are like absolutely right when feedback is not only given during the long learning process but when it's specific and it supports them to grow towards their goals seesaw supports timely feedback that deepens learning. So here is our agenda for today I like to call it our roadmap. So we are going to begin by learning three ways that teachers can give that actionable feedback that feedback that support students to meet their goals and that is specific and targeted like you mentioned in the chat. Then we're going to talk about how you can support your students to give feedback peer feedback to one another, and then we're going to wrap up by talking about how you can also support families in providing feedback on their child's work. So now I am actually going to stop sharing and I'm going to turn it over to Caitlin and she is just going to jump right in. Thanks Mia. Let me get this open. Alright look good. It looks great. Okay. So, we've got three ways we're going to highlight today and I'm going to start by talking about three ways that teachers can give actionable feedback within seesaw. I'm going to turn to remember that effective feedback, like me I said is given during the learning process, and it connects to students learning goals. Students have the opportunity to take your feedback in order to better understand the concept or skill that's being taught. And students have opportunities to revise their work and make a plan for improvement moving forward. Let's start with comments commenting on student posts is a fast and effective way to leave feedback in seesaw. Once students post to the journal, you'll be required to look at and approve posts before it gets posted on students seesaw journal. Before approving, you'll want to look through their work and provide some feedback comments are a quick and easy way to provide students that feedback. The second way is that there are two ways of leaving comments for students on their posts, you can either write a text comment, or leave audio comments. You can type your comment and use the audio audio tool to record your comments. If you would like to add that extra support for those students that are pre readers, and even make it more accessible for your English language learners. You can hear your voice giving me meaningful feedback on their work. I know that my students love listening to me talk directly to them. I feel like it's such a special way to make those connections with your students. If your comment feedback includes areas that you would like your students to improve on seesaw premium users can have the ability to send back work as drafts. So once you click that button in the upper right hand corner, this post will automatically be sent back to students as a draft, giving them the opportunity to make adjustments and improve students then from the student view can open up that draft and see their feedback right on their creative canvas. This is a new feature that I absolutely love. Students can edit their work and also see that feedback right there in the upper right hand corner, corner, so that they have that support right there. For them while they're editing their work in order to be more successful in their revisions. Another way to give feedback is by adding bitmojis to student work. And an instant a picture or a bitmoji can convey a thought. Many times faster than a lot of typed words using stickers and bitmojis can help students see your feedback and feel that emotion, and they're kind of fun for students to see. When you're approving students work, you can add a bitmoji like this kind of digital sticker that you see right here. Here you can see an assignment where the student created the number 45 and a few different ways. When the teacher was looking through the SS the assignment, she edited the post, and then put a fun bitmoji saying good job Tony. A lot of you are familiar with bitmojis they seem to become a real hit during distance learning the past couple years. To make it even better in seesaw teachers love leaving audio feedback attached to their bitmoji. So you can do this by clicking on the bitmoji, and then clicking those three dots. So here's this menu as shown here and you'll click voice. Here is where you can record an audio comment that attaches right onto the bitmoji. When students see that audio icon students then can listen to the audio comment left by you the teacher. So let's take a closer look at what that looks like. Same example with a bitmoji added on top of the students work and let's take let's listen. Great job Tony. I love how you showed how you got this answer. You wrote the number 45 you showed me with place value blocks, and you wrote an equation at the top. Great job today. Great. So this was just a quick and easy way to kind of leave a little bit more meaningful and fun feedback for students to listen to. Here is a little cheat sheet overview of the steps that you go through to add your bitmoji and add audio to it. Don't worry about copying this down. You'll receive these slides and a follow up email so you can refer back to them later. I'm going to go ahead and explore just kind of show you a little bit of how I add bitmojis to work as well as kind of demonstrate how you can add audio to those bitmojis. So if you'd like to follow along, you can or you can sit back and watch and you will receive the recording in a follow up email. So here I have me as post on one of the new seesaw lessons activities. How can I describe a character so students listen to the story and they thought about the main characters traits inside or outside and here's where the student responded. Now, I want to say great job Mia. Give her that feedback. I'm going to go up here to this extension, which is a bitmoji extension in Chrome in the Chrome browser so if you use Chrome as your, your browsing window, you can download this extension and it pops up right here. Once you log into your bitmoji account, here's where I can easily search. This is a different emoji so way to go. Good job. Killing it. Well done. So I'm going to actually just copy this bitmoji right here. And I can paste it onto the students canvas, but first I'm going to have to edit their post. Okay, so here's what they turned into me. I'm going to click edit post. I'm going to go to the slide I'd like to leave the feedback on, and I can paste that bitmoji right here for the students to see. So maybe I'll put it up here so it's not blocking any of their work. Now, when I click on my bitmoji here those three dots I was talking about. I'm going to click those three dots click voice. And here's where I can record my voice. Yeah, I really like that you were able to tell me about the characters outside strict traits that you saw, as well as understand the inside treats how the how the character was feeling. So now here's the bitmoji. I'm going to put it down here so there's nothing else in the way. Here's the bitmoji on the students were kind of like a sticker except the students will see this audio icon. Good job, Mia. I really like that you and here is the audio feedback for students. So kind of a fun way to to put on a digital sticker for your students and add audio feedback for them to to see. Alright, let's continue. Alright, another way to give feedback to your students is by adding videos to your to the to the students work. Hold on one second. Okay, leaving on leaving video feedback can be another way to add personal and meaningful feedback to students work. Here is a little recording of exactly how you can add a video video feedback to students work. I just made this quick screencast and added it to the presentation to show you exactly what it looks like so it looks like you wanted to buy this toy for 99 cents. So let's count how much we have these are all dimes let's count by 10s 1020 30. Thank you watch the whole thing, but you can see that I'm able to use the draw tool and the record tool at the same time so first, like I said earlier, you had to those three dots at the bottom right hand corner of student work to edit the post. You'll be able to open the students work and click on that microphone tool on the left hand side. You'll be able to record and draw providing great explanations right on top of the student work. I'm going to fast forward a little bit here. So once I'm done with the video. Oops, let me go back to there really quick. Once I'm done with the video it creates an overlay right on top of the students work. So, here's the whole video. I just resized it on the left hand corner so students can refer back to it while on their assignment page right there so the video is not covering up their whole work, but I just resize that video and put it in the corner for them to view while they're editing their assignment. So I think creating videos to student work is a great way to explain the activity further and leave comments on works, and also a great way to reteach a topic so if you feel like your students need a little bit more support for a concept they might be struggling with. You might want to add a video so that they can have that personalized support. And you can do that for each individual student depending on the areas that they're struggling with. This way you can target and reteach those specific skills. Carving out time in your weekly plans to allow students to go through and revise any work is definitely a best practice. The best learning happens when students identify mistakes and then try again in my classroom we're constantly talking about having a growth mindset. And we talk about how mistakes make our brains grow and that's the only way that we're able to improve and make our brains stronger so I make sure that every week I designate some time for students to go through. And read that feedback make some edits and that really closes the learning loop for students when they are learning and practicing new concepts in your classroom. Here is a great five step summary to show you how you can add video for reteaching to add video feedback. Again, you'll have this in the follow up email but it's a great kind of quick cheat sheet for you to have when you are integrating that into your own classroom but I'm going to go ahead and show you do a little demo again just so that you can see exactly how I created those videos. So, here's my bit moji. I'm going to leave this one. Let's see. Let me refresh this. Okay, so here is a student's assignment that was turned into me and it was a writing assignment so this is also another activity that is in within the seesaw lessons. The new lessons library. Hold on. I'm going to delete that. Okay, so I can see, here's my activities list. Here's my activities list. This is one activity that I assigned this is a demo class so doesn't have all of my students and their names but I'm going to click on Colleen's work. And I'm going to go through. Here's the learn and the read section of this activity. They did a word search and here was the writing part that Colleen did. So I want to leave video feedback on this piece so I go to the three dots at the bottom right hand corner. I'm going to click edit post. Here is where the assignment is going to pop up. You can see all the different pages here I'm going to click on the plate page I'd like to leave feedback on. And here is where I can click the camera icon on the left side, click video. I'm going to click the camera icon because I'm on zoom I'm not able to also access my video on here. My other computer lets me, but no worries, I'm going to click the camera icon here and that is when that video icon you saw that video icon. Then a video is going to pop up, and I can add video feedback. If you'd like to see the draw and record option. I can click the microphone tool right here. And now I'm able to not only record my voice, but also I can use the drawing tool to mark up any work so I might say, I think the best dog is a pug dog because it is small and playful and it is cute too. Oh, I'm going to say oh Mia. Oh my gosh my video. Okay. It's not a great circle. I'm going to restart there we go. I'm going to say oh Mia, double check, which two you're using when you are writing. I'm going to keep reading. It's fur is short so mud cannot get in it. Hmm is in the best word you want to use here. It bark is small. Hmm. So it is not loud. Maybe you want to use its bark. It is its bark with an S on it. Don't forget a capital letter at the beginning of your sentence. Okay, so we're going to say I edited this whole assignment kind of gave you a little idea of how I can use my audio tool and my drawing tool at the same time. And now here's that video overlay that I was talking about. See, so don't let it fool you. You can move it over. Use the bottom right hand little dots and make it smaller so Now I can add this anywhere on the screen. I can go ahead and delete or erase my markings. So my markings remain here in the video and the student can go back in and edit their work, but having that video right there is so useful for students. And again, I just did that by clicking the microphone, and I recorded my voice and use the drawing tool at the same time so I feel like as a teacher that that feature is life changing and really give students a great way to see your feedback right there on the canvas. Thank you so much, Caitlin. Those were three wonderful ideas for using feedback and using the new feedback feature with the comments that appear directly within the canvas, or either editing a post to include that screen recording is really great for those little learners, because they have your feedback like you mentioned right next to their work so they know exactly what they need to work on. So those are really great. So now that we have seen those three different ways, we would love to hear from you so in the chat. Let's discuss how do you plan to give actionable feedback in your classroom after this webinar in the next seven days. So which one of those ways are you most excited to jump in and try go ahead and drop what you think in the chat that you want to try. And I did see a question or a comment in the chat saying that their district blocks bit emojis. Another thing that you can do is you can add any image to your seesaw so you can copy an image from Google or download it to your computer and upload that image and you can add audio to any image on the canvas. So maybe you can find a star or any image that you would use to like to add audio. We also have a shapes feature within seesaw. So we have stars there. We have speech bubbles, you can insert and you can add audio to those as well you just would follow those same steps that Caitlin mentioned in order to to add audio to those images that we have on the canvas. So maybe you want to give your students a gold star and add a little bit of audio so if you are unable to use bit emojis then that's kind of a work around for you. Even when adding directions sometimes they say look for the gold star so you can hear the audio directions for those kindergarten students those pre readers and even your English language learners. Okay, so I see a bunch of you sharing more responses in the chat bitmoji with audio draw and record draw and record has been a game changer, you're really able to provide that specific feedback. On the canvas so students know exactly where it is that they need to adjust their work and what they need to correct. Great. So I'm going to turn it back over to Caitlin and she's going to talk about how you can support students in giving peer feedback. Awesome love looking through the chat will continue on. So like Mia said, another great way is through getting students involved in giving feedback to their peers. Students can also comment on each other's posts, giving them an authentic audience for their work and valuable feedback from their peers, enabling comments is a valuable opportunity for students to practice digital citizenship as well. In order to allow comments, you will want to head to your class settings using the wrench icon in the upper right hand corner under the section that says students, you're going to click students likes and comments. Use those toggles to enable likes and comments. It's always important to teach your students how to give effective feedback before jumping into it. Many teachers like to use the acronym tag as an easy way to a mock to model effective feedback. The T stands for tell me something you liked. G stands for ask a question and G stands for give a suggestion. So I know that if I didn't go over this with my students a lot of their comments would be awesome cool me too. And we really want our students to be digging a little deeper, providing some more meaningful feedback, especially as they get a little bit older and first and second grade. One way to scaffold this tag kind of acronym is to assign students an activity where they have to practice each element of tags separately. So here's an example of the letter T. Tell me something you liked. Once you save this activity to your library, you can edit the assignment and insert any relevant work example from your class. Students then can respond and practice practice commenting about something that they liked about a specific work sample. So here is what this activity looks like and this is linked right in the slide deck. So you can save this activity. You're also able to after you save it, edit the activity to make it fit for your classroom. And this is just a great way to again scaffold this for students we're going to practice T today tell me something you like so we're going to put as a teacher I'm going to put a work sample on there and you're going to tell me something you liked about it. You can do that same thing for a ask a question view the work sample and ask a question about what you see. There's the activity. And then finally here's the activity for G again all of these activities are linked in the presentation so if you want to use these activities you can definitely save them and add them to your seesaw lesson library. See saw blogs are an also an amazing way to showcase the work that is being done in your classroom and share it with and sharing that work with a broader community. So G can give students an authentic audience of their classmates, their parents and other students around the globe, encouraging better work and providing opportunities for real feedback. I know that my students, you know if, if they know their work is going to be shared with more than just their teacher, they're going to put their best foot forward and make sure that this is really a great example of what they can produce. See saw blogs can be public on the internet or password protected and only shared with those that you send it to teachers control whether or not class folders are shown in the blog and students and parents last names are always hidden. Teachers moderate all posts before they go live on the blog and blog comments can be enabled or disabled and all blog comments are required teacher approval is required for all for all blog comments. So after you enable blogs in your seesaw settings that wrench icon in the upper right hand corner. The globe icon will then appear under all of the posts. Once you click that icon. This post can now be viewed on your class blog for everyone that has access to your blog. They can also comment and leave audio messages as well. Another great way to use blogs is to connect to other classrooms with seesaw connected blog students can collaborate with students in other classes, leave comments and develop digital citizenship skills. Everything happens within the seesaw app or website so it's simple safe and also teacher moderated to connect to another blog, you will need to use the seesaw blog URL from the other teacher seesaw blogs is a safe way for students to engage with other classrooms share their learning and it's all built right inside seesaw. If you want to learn more about blogs, you can head to this link right here. And it will go through all the information about seesaw blogs I don't want to spend too much time on this today so we're going to continue on. All right, Mia. All right. Thank you so much, Caitlin. So, now that you learned about how to get students involved in giving that feedback to one another. What supports will you provide your students in giving peer feedback go ahead and drop your thoughts in the chat. Linda said modeling yes, you know our youngest learners. They definitely need that explicit step by step modeling so yes that is an excellent support. Let's see Rachel said love the idea of using tag yes giving students that framework. So they know exactly what to do. And by using those activities that Caitlin shared with you. You can also not only model when you're in front of your students, but you can attach like she said that work sample and you can provide a model directly within that seesaw activity so that when students are practicing on their own. They don't have to keep raising their hands and saying miss Miller miss winner. I don't know what to do. I don't know how to do this they have that mop that screen recording, or that example right directly within the seesaw canvas. Great. My kindergartners another like support I would give them is those specific sentence stems I know we have those frames but when you frame your response these are this is you know how you would frame it here are some sentence stems that you can use to give your peers that feedback. Great. Alright, so we're going to jump right in to how you can get your families involved in giving feedback so Caitlin's going to take it away again. So we've talked about teachers giving feedback we touched we talked about peers giving feedback now let's get families involved. And we're going to give some examples of how parents can leave meaningful feedback for their students. One of the most accurate predictors of student success is the extent to which families are involved in their child's learning and supported at home. And seesaw is amazing because it brings educators students and families together to create a powerful learning loop between the classroom and home. It's unique ability to kind of have a window into the classroom, see what their student is doing and producing on a daily basis, and also interact with it leave comments, facilitate those conversations at home, and give some positive feedback words of encouragement. Students with seesaw students know that their work is not only being seen by their teacher, their classmates, but also their family and like I said, having that larger audience for their work can be powerful students will put their best foot forward, knowing that a larger audience will be able to see their students with seesaws. And we can post right here just like on comments, you can also add, you can add audio comments or text comments, you can also click the like button. We mentioned using the tag model for modeling appropriate and effective feedback for students, but this model can be used for parents as well. So sending home a family tag letter like this provides parents an example of how to leave structured feedback on their child's posts. You can share this letter with families using seesaw announcements. In this slide deck, this download for this parent letter is also linked as well, and I'll demo how you can add this to a seesaw announcement that goes to the connected families and seesaw. If a note caption, comment, announcement or message is written in a different language that is different from the home language of a family's or teacher's device, a C translation pops up below the post. If you tap that C translate C translation button seesaw will automatically translate any text into your native language seesaw can translate messages into over 50 languages, which is definitely a life changing thing in the classroom when you are trying to communicate with families and keep them connected to them in the loop. Families who are able to access this in their native language will feel a lot more connected and are able to support their children even more. I see a question in the chat. Is this letter in English in Spanish. This is just a letter that a colleague has created so I, we kind of borrowed this from a colleague to share and we don't have it in Spanish. But that is a great suggestion I'll let her know you asked and people are interested. Alright, so I'm going to show you how you can add this. This tag letter to an announcement and I'm going to put the link to the tag letter in the chat, just so that if you wanted to follow along you could also you can just download that. I'm going to put it on my desktop just for easy access when I'm presenting for you all. I don't have to dig through my files so let me move around some windows here. Alright, so if I go into my seesaw account, I can click my trusty green add button and click send announcement. I can send announcement to all family members. And this is where that attachment comes in handy I'm going to click the attachment, you have all of seesaws creative tools. For this instance, I'm just going to upload this letter that I have for tags so I just dragged and dropped it in, and boom, it comes right up in the seesaw canvas, I can click check. Maybe I want to write a little message and say hello kindergarten families. We would love to have you involved, we'd love to have you involved in sharing your feedback and commenting on your students posts in order to make it the most valuable feedback. So I'm going to go through every outline that we practice in our classroom, and maybe I just write a little blurb about what tag acronym means, and then the parents will be able to view this letter right within seesaw. So I'll click check. When I'm done writing this whole little blurb this message I can click send now, and I can see that it's sent to the six family members that I have connected within my seesaw account so download that letter if you're interested, save it to your computer and send that announcement for when you're ready to get families, leaving that meaningful feedback on their students posts. Thank you, Caitlin what a great resource and thank you so much for sharing all those amazing strategies that teachers can use to support students in giving that actionable feedback. Let's just take a moment to stop and think what impact does actionable feedback actually have on student learning. Go ahead and drop some responses in the chat. Let me send that link one more time. There we go. Thank you. Yes, Leslie Leslie shares that students will want to work harder they're motivated when they see that you are giving them feedback on their work. Yep adults show interest students will want to work harder. I'm excited to allow students or children to know right away what they do and do not understand. Yes, reaches more students if they don't have time during the day to talk to them. Yes, that is definitely a benefit of providing that feedback within the platform. Great builds trust. Alright, I'm going to go over and take over that screen sharing there. Caitlin. There we go. All right. Yeah, so you shared a lot of your thoughts in the chat with us, but that meaningful and actionable feedback really supports students, because it gives them a plan of action to support them in meeting their goals. It encourages that reflection and it supports students to extend that thinking, and it empowers them it builds agency by really actively involving students in the learning process. And this is such a powerful thing, especially for those littlest learners that are oftentimes dependent a lot on adults. So really allowing them to get involved in that process. You know they can record their peer feedback with audio as well you can give them feedback via video and screen recording really builds that agency and appowers them throughout that learning process. So, um, you will be receiving in the follow up email a handout that has a just a bunch of highlights from the session today. And we would love for you to use that highlight that handout once you receive it to just think about one way you will facilitate that actionable feedback in your classroom and go ahead and apply that one way in your classroom in one week of our session tonight. So you did it we covered a lot in this past 45 minutes we talked about those three effective ways to give that actionable feedback. We talked about how to teach your students to give peer feedback and we finally ended by talking about ways to support families and providing feedback on their child's work. I have a question in the chat about, hey, how do I find out about all of these webinars that seesaw offers so you can do that by going to our training site web dot seesaw dot me for it slash training and we will drop the link to that site in the chat. And that training site here lists out all of our upcoming live webinars that we have we have a number of webinars going on for Southern Hemisphere right now because they are going back to school. However, you might find that content helpful to you so go ahead and register even if the time is not optimal. If you register for those live events. You will always receive a link to the recording and the resources, even if you cannot attend live so definitely check out our training page to find any upcoming webinars. Also, if you scroll a little bit further down we have some on demand playlist that cover a number of topics in seesaw so if you are brand new, we have all of our getting started videos those are the blue ones. And then if you've been using seesaw for a while we have some videos that can support you in digging deeper with seesaw so definitely check out our training page. And we would love to take any additional questions that you have right now we do have just another minute or so. There was one question that I saw come up repeatedly in the chat. So there was a question and someone asked, could I can I copy and paste the same video of feedback into multiple posts so right now you on are unable to do that but one thing that you can do is you can create a new post, and you can create a video within that post. That contains feedback for your students so you know if you gave a math assessment and you notice that your students kind of just got tripped up on the same thing you might want to create a video or screencasting in a separate post. So when you go to send that post to students what you can do is you can just tag those students that you want to send that speed that specific feedback to so that's one kind of work around for that. Let's see if there any other final questions before we go. Another thing in terms of like the audio for like the Bitmoji or any of those digital stickers. Similarly, if you have a piece of feedback that you notice that you know you're given to multiple students you can record it on your computer, and you can upload that audio. That way you don't have to make a new recording every time you go to insert or attach that audio to your Bitmoji, or to your digital sticker or to your shape or whatever it is that you're adding in seesaw work smarter not harder. That's right. Alright, you all so much for joining us today. So there was another question about commenting on the blog can we make it so that families can only comment on their own child's work so right now families can only comment on their own child's work in the family app. Now they can comment on any post that you post for the blog if you have that feature enabled, but our comments must be approved by you so you can review that comment before a parent post and you can decide to approve it or not. So that students can see or they cannot see those posts. So just as a reminder, thank you so much for coming today, you will be receiving an email in approximately 48 to 24 to 48 hours with the slides along with a certificate of completion, a link to the recording and a one pager that contains just highlights from the session about supporting families and giving actionable feedback. We it was been a pleasure. Thank you so much, Caitlin for sharing all of your expertise with everyone today, and happy seesawing everyone. Thank you for joining us for joining everyone have a wonderful night. Bye bye.