 Welcome everybody to this session. We are about to find out why these students are so excited. We are going to jump in the new CESA features so you can get a demo. I want to let you know a little bit about me before we really get rolling. I'm Angela and I'm super excited to be here with you today. I taught kindergarten for 15 years and now lead the community team here at CESA to support all teachers getting started. So please connect with me on Twitter at Mrs. Gadkey. And in the bottom right here you'll notice how you can get these slides if you are viewing the recording. For those of you joining live, I'm so excited that you are here. And I want to let you know about something brand new that we are starting today. So we have always given certificates to people that come to our sessions live. They come to you via an email. But we've heard feedback that teachers really appreciate being able to view the recording. So starting today, August 13th, we are going to try giving certificates to those of you that are also viewing the recording. You just have to listen for a code that I'm going to share during this session. It's a six character code. I'll say, you know, three digits a little bit into the webinar and three digits later in the webinar. So all you have to know is that code to get your certificate in the form that you receive. Now, if you're live, you've got it easy breezy. The certificates just coming to you. So you don't even have to worry about that. But let's jump in and talk about the newest CESA features. Keep in mind, this session is really geared toward the teacher that is already using CESA. This is not going to be a basics where we're walking through the flow of getting started with CESA. You'll want to join us for a different session for that information. But if you are brand new and want to get inspired, this is a perfect place for you to be as well. So the first question people often ask is, how do I see these updates? So what you're going to want to make sure you do is update your iOS devices. So if you have an iPad or an iPhone, you will need to go to the app store to download the newest version of CESA. But if you're on a computer, this is so easy. You simply just go to app.CESA.me and you are going to see the updates there automatically. So now that you know how to get the updates, I want to just give a little bit of context to that. CESA, as you know, has always been a platform to help students demonstrate and share what they're learning in school. And we want you to know that CESA's tools are the best for empowering students to think creatively and demonstrate their learning. And we have really been focused on how to make CESA better over the years. And this year, we're actually really focusing on three main areas. First, we want to be better than ever on Chromebooks. And we've really listened to our teachers and know that Chromebooks are used more and more in schools. And we want to make sure that CESA works amazing on Chromebooks. So we've actually rebuilt our tools from the ground up with Chromebooks in mind. While, of course, also making it easier for teachers using Google Classroom to take the learning further. So you will see that today. These updates are also available on, you know, computers with a web browser and of course iPads in iOS as we've already shared. We also want to make sure in these new releases that we're still offering endless possibilities for students to create and reflect. So in response to feedback from upper elementary teachers, we've built new tools that support the types of content older learners produce and more complex expressive thinking. While of course keeping tools simple and easy to use for even our youngest learners. And again, the third going into the third focus is again making sure our tools are intuitive for all learners. We really love how all students learn in different ways and create a tool that give all learners more space. Lots of options to choose how to demonstrate their learning and ways that work best for them. So we're excited to share the new create screen with you if you take a peek here. Are you ready ready to see it I'm really building up the the peak here. Here it is. So if you haven't been in seesaw lately. It's going to look a little bit different right so you're going to recognize this screen. Kind of a similar screen that you've probably already seen with the tools, but we also wanted to refresh the screen to let our users know that big changes have arrived. So what we're actually going to do is if for example you look inside the drawing tool, you are going to see our amazing new drawing canvas. So what we've done is we wanted to make sure that all the tools were available for you on the screen, but you'll notice just giving you a quick tour up in the upper left. We have an undo and redo button. You know, we've already had text labels in seesaw, but now you'll notice with that mic, you can draw and record to capture that learning process. So this was only available on iOS before and also on Android but you can now do this on a Chromebook or via the web on any computer at app dot seesaw dot me so drawing and recording at the same time is amazing. You can also now add a collage with multiple photos to your canvas via the camera photo tool right here. You can add shapes and backgrounds in seesaw. You can also still on the bottom left caption with voice or text. And do you notice our amazing new expressive pens and tools down here so we have a pencil a pen a highlighter, a glow pen which is quite fun and an eraser. So that gives you a little bit of a preview but I want to actually go into a live demo so I'm going to get out of the slides. I'm going to go into one of my classes I have so many of them. I'm going to go into this fifth grade class and I'm actually going to show you what this looks like from the teacher perspective. Of course, these tools are also available to your students. So as a teacher when I tap this green add button. I am going to choose post to student journal. Here I am in our new creative tools screen so you can notice too as I'm moving around here. It is, you know, bringing to life each of these different tools. So again, our new creative tools, no matter what you kind of go into you're going to be able to experience them but we're going to start today in the drawing with a drawing tool. So there you'll notice here I am on my brand new gigantic canvas. You'll notice. If you remember on Chromebooks or via the web it used to be just like this little tiny screen, and I'm going to draw right here do you see how I can actually take advantage of every little aspect of this screen it is enormous for your students. No matter you know if they're on a Chromebook or the web. And I was they're going to have all of this amazing space to work with to create and explain and demonstrate their learning. I'm going to go on the upper left and hit undo, as I want my clean canvas back. I also want to start this demonstration by telling a little bit of a story. When I got her, she just finished her grade. They were exploring angles so they did a lot of hands on learning, you know they created angles with popsicle sticks and whatnot. But then one of the things that we're asked to do was to rock walk around the classroom and find angles and take photos. So I thought this is a perfect way to use the seesaw creative tools. So what I'm going to do actually to start is I'm going to tap the three dots here on the bottom left. And I'm going to go into our new backgrounds tool and you'll notice we have some amazing new backgrounds, we've got plain colors, we've got some variegated colors we also have different paper templates. So I'm going to actually click on this grid paper, because I think that's going to come in handy with my math example that I'm about to work out. So I went into my daughter's classroom. We took some photos so I'm going to go into the photo tool here. I can take photos directly from my camera. Or in this case I'm going to upload photos because I've already taken them so I'm going to click upload. I'm going to go here to download. And there are my amazing photos that I have taken of angles in my classroom so you'll notice. Super easy and quick I have dropped three different photos onto the canvas, and I'm going to start playing with them. Now I'm going to pause for a moment and let those of you that are watching the recording know. The first three digits of the code that you will enter in order to get a certificate those first three digits you're going to want to write down our six four zero. All right, so back to our demo, I have these amazing pictures right so if I just added this to see saw as it is right now. You could have an idea of what you know that I found some angles right, but let's add another layer to really explain so I'm going to go here and use my photo tool. And I'm going to name these angles I'm going to call this up to and then move it over here. I'm going to create another label and what do we have we have an acute angle. I'm going to change the color on that one and actually. Let's see we'll go try blue over here on colors I'm just changing the color. I'm going to move that here you notice I can also just click these buttons quick to to change that if I want to. One more that I'm going to do you'll notice did you see it did you see that nice little effect that it kept the same label so if I want to do that I can. I'm going to do this kind of handy saves a little bit of time if you want them all the same. All right, and then we have my right angle. Okay, so again, I have a little bit more context for my teacher right. But let's see what else what if I was able to draw and record and explain with my voice, which I want to do but you know what before I do that in the bottom. I'm going to highlight this acute angle. So it's really crisp and clear. I'm going to come over here to my two single. I'm going to highlight that. Now you'll notice when I was just drawing I'm using my trackpad. So one of the things that we notice with students on a Chromebook or maybe they're on a laptop sometimes that's difficult so if I go here on the three dots I also have shapes. We have our handy you can see all the amazing shapes we have we have common shapes we also have common math manipulative like pattern blocks base 10 blocks we even have some musical annotations there for our music teachers, but I'm going to click on this line right here because that is going to actually come in handy for me. So I'm going to move this down here I'm going to rotate it. Let's see if this helps me a little bit more easily be able to demonstrate this right angle. Again, because we thought he saw students and teachers, sometimes trying to draw some of these things out and you know it wasn't always easy if you're using a trackpad. I wanted to offer those shapes. That's a little bit hard to see I'm going to change the color. Well, let's see, maybe purple. Let's do that. Okay, so I think I'm ready now to record and really explain my thinking with our new drawing record option. So I'm going to go ahead and tap the record button and let's get started. I found our classroom I saw three different types of angles. First, I noticed an obtuse angle. And when you think of an obtuse angle that means that this measurement right here is greater than 90 degrees. So that means it is an obtuse angle. Right, I found a chair in our classroom and I noticed this chair was demonstrating or showing me an acute angle. So when I think of an acute angle that's less than 90 degrees. And a right angle is the last angle that I found you'll notice right here on our shelf. This right angle is exactly 90 degrees. So actually if I go and I think of a shape that I commonly see that has a right angle I noticed the square. So a square actually has four right angles, each equaling 90 degrees. So I can then tap the green check as you notice in the right I could also pause during that video if I wanted to as a student and move some things around or change, change anything on the screen. So I'm going to play this back right now. When I walked around our classroom I saw three different types of angles. First, I noticed an obtuse angle. And when you think of an obtuse angle that means that this. Right, I could rerecord if I want right now without losing all of the work that I've done on the canvas so that's also really handy, but I'm going to actually check check the green check here. And I'm going to choose my name and I'm going to get it added to our class. So as you can see so many layers and creativity can take place with your students when they're using our new, all of our new tools you know they can add multiple photos they can capture their learning in any format. They can draw and record to explain. So since I'm in the class right now let's just peek at a couple other ideas that you might try. Here's an example of a student annotating and labeling various parts of a C star. This student is working out math equation on top of this photo of a pyramid. Let's go down here again this drawn record feature would be amazing for all of you math teachers out there to who you know would love to get inside the head of your students to see maybe where they went wrong in solving a problem. Here's an example of a student that is using our tools to really illustrate the various aspects of the sun and this diagram. Maybe you're doing a food pyramid, maybe you're having your students tell about themselves or introduce themselves what did they do over the summer lots of creation can happen there. Here's an example of a student annotating a text. So they are reading a book they snapped a picture. They're using, you know, lots of our drawing options here. Maybe they are explaining a more complex thing like the water cycle you'll notice here. This student has actually taken the photo and use that as a background image. So one of the things you can do is you can also layer the content that is coming on the screen as well which is really handy. So those are just some ideas of how you can use our amazing new seesaw features I'm going to hop back into our slide deck because early on I mentioned to you that you can now import student rosters from Google classroom. So those of you that are already using Google classroom make sure you're adding seesaw into that workflow as well. So students can take the learning a little bit further. So let's go ahead and click here to watch this in action. All right, so as you can see we just watched that for about 20 seconds. So that's about as long as it would take you to create your class in seesaw if you already have students rostered in Google classroom so make sure you check that out. And we are so excited to see how your students create reflect and seesaw this year using our new creative tools. I want to let you know that of course you made it here but if if you are going to join us again. All of our webinars are found at web dot seesaw dot me backslash pds that would be the place to go. And if you remember three things from today seesaw is better than ever and Chromebooks we offer endless possibilities for students to create and reflect. And we have intuitive tools for all learners. So with that I'm going to pause for a moment and give our viewers that are watching and recording the last three digits of the code they will need to get a certificate for viewing this session. The last three digits are one eight four. All right, so live viewers today we are going to hop into some questions right now. We love to hear your thoughts on the topic and really want to support you so make sure you start typing those questions in. And I also want to show you quickly to that if you're not yet connected to our community boy we have teachers that are sharing ideas all over the place. Make sure you check that out. And of course we have more recordings on our YouTube channel as well that's kind of where we post all of them after the session airs.