 Hello, hello, and welcome to PD and your PJs. I'm so excited that you could join us to talk more about Book Snaps with CESA. We're here with Tara and she'll take over in just a few minutes. Before we get started though, I want you to know that you should hear me talking now. Don't worry, we are recording the session and you'll receive that in an email shortly after we conclude. The best part though is that you're going to get the slides so you can look through those at your own convenience later and click on all the resources that Tara has to share with you. We will take a few questions at the end. So if you think of something as she's presenting, just go ahead and type it in the question box and we'll have lots of conversation about Book Snaps as we conclude tonight. Quick introduction, my name is Julie. I was a high school ELA teacher for 18 years. I'm now on the teacher community team at CESA. Go ahead and find me real quick on Twitter. I'm at EdTechJulieJay. Give me a follow because I share lots of tips and tricks about CESA. And then of course you can connect with our whole team on Twitter at CESA. Now I do wanna tell you, Tara is not talking about how to get started with CESA or how to set up your class. So if you need that kind of information, please visit ideas.csad.me. Everything there will help you get started. And then definitely check out our calendar, web.csad.me, fact slash PDs to see which PD topics are coming up that might interest you. I do have a quick favor to ask you before I turn it over to Tara. When we conclude tonight, a survey is going to pop up on your screen if you can. Take a minute to answer those questions. We really do value your feedback and that's how we make our PD sessions better. And then we also randomly choose a winner of a t-shirt every week from those survey responses. So if you don't mind, give us a little feedback as we wrap up tonight. I'm so excited though to be turning it over to Tara Martin. You know her from Twitter and from all the book snaps. She has so many awesome things to share with you tonight. How's it going, Tara? It's wonderful. Thank you for inviting me. I'm going to make you the presenter now and you can take it away. I'll let you know when we can see your screen. Okay. Okay, yep, we can see it. You got it. Okay, we're good to go. Do I need to close this box? I think just as long, yep, you're good. We can see it in present mode. Okay, fantastic. Well, welcome to PD and your PJs. We are going to be talking book snaps and I am super excited to be here today. So book snaps was created in August of 2016. It was a product of my son using Snapchat ridiculously all the time and all I ever saw him do was take selfies and it was driving me bonkers. So I just wanted to figure out a way to use the app for edu awesomeness and I was reading one day and I was like imagining this picture in my mind like we do when we're reading and that's how we connect to text, right? And I was like, oh my goodness, maybe I can use bitmojis and emojis to recreate this imagery that's happening inside of my head. So I called Caleb downstairs. He was 15 at the time. I was like, dude, you have to teach mom how to use Snapchat. And he was like, no, you're too old for that. But he ended up teaching me anyway. And it turns out when you can take a picture of the text and within Snapchat at that time that's the app that bookstops was birth. I realized I could annotate and then pull images down and help recreate this imagery that was happening inside of my mind. But then I started to notice, not every student is connected to Snapchat. It is an app for 12 years and older. So I started looking at other apps and Seesaw was one that I used all the time with the kiddos that I work with. And so I was like, let's see if we can make bookstops with Seesaw. And then it was just a plethora of apps that you could do this. But basically you're connecting to the text. You're annotating and sharing excerpts of any kind of reading material. It works at all grade levels. And you are creating a digital visual representation of your learning. Well, since book snaps, we have all kinds of snaps like math snaps, science snaps, anything that you are sharing your learning through this image. So I'm gonna walk you through how to create a book snap in Seesaw. And then I hope that if you are a math teacher out there, a science teacher, we have a culinary teacher in Oregon who does food snaps. I mean, the snaps are endless. Anytime you're allowing students to share what they're thinking in a digital format, this will work, this strategy will work. The best thing about this strategy is it actually has brain-based research. So when you are comprehending, you're using the left hemisphere of your brain and then when you recreate that comprehension through a digital visual representation, you're using the right hemisphere of your brain. So now you're engaging both hemispheres of your brain and the chance of taking that content and pushing it out of the working memory into the long-term memory increases exponentially when you use both hemispheres of the brain. All right, now all of that, let's create a snap. So the first thing you do is open Seesaw and we are using Rick Jeter's the isolate in book tonight. So if you are interested in reading this, it's fantastic for teaching empathy grades four through eight, love, love, love this book. So you will open Seesaw, choose the photo and you're gonna take a picture of the text that you are connecting with at that time. From there, you are gonna choose the T and you will add your annotation here. Type it in, you can use emojis if you're on iPad. And so from there, then you add the emojis, you will make sure that you choose the style and make them transparent. Some of the kids like them to not be transparent. So if you don't mind the tape looking, you can leave it like that. After that, you can customize the box. This was if he is that a lot of the students just absolutely loved making their box more decorative. Then there's a drawing option. I found that a lot of students really like to draw their own thoughts. And I love that because it kind of connects, it connects the motor memory as well. So now you're not just working with digital imagery but you're actually adding another memory, your motor memory and the chances of remembering that content actually increases when you draw it. So I love, love, love this piece about seesaw as compared to other apps making book snaps is that you can make your book snaps come alive with voice and it changes everything. So you can tell them, I connected with this because I had a friend one time and he was super lonely and he was feeling super upset and this little guy has autism. So maybe these children are connecting in a way like that but they can share that verbally. And I love this for the little, the littles too because sometimes their annotation is really like the title and the author of the book and it took them like their whole station to build that. So they can share their thoughts here and their thinking. And then from here you would just choose added to their journal and their class feed view. I love this piece about seesaw as well because students can go in and then comment on each other's book snaps and the little people can comment via microphone. They can just voice over their comments. One of the things we did recently with first grade group is we got everyone made a book snap. They were actually making math snaps. So they all made math snaps and then they went in and got their QR PDF right here. The teacher could do this and she printed off these sheets that are over here on the right. And what happened is they took a gallery walk with their iPads and groups of two and so they got to go and scan the QR code and listen to how their partner came up with the answer, the solution to their math problem. And it was just amazing because they were going around the room and then there was the big poster paper underneath and so they were leaving comments and smiley faces on how their work went. So they had a gallery walk based off of math snaps that came out of seesaw. There are so many sharing options as far as putting them out on Twitter. I love that seesaw connects with so many apps. So if you wanna take your students book snaps and just share them right out to Twitter, you can do that. And I would highly recommend you looking at my website which is TaraandMartin.com and looking under the resource section and on the left-hand side, there's tons of book snaps resources for you. But in May, we will be having a book snaps challenge. It's across the world. We had 15 countries involved last year. So I'm excited to see what it will be this year. And kids will post their book snaps straight out of seesaw right onto Twitter and post them to the hashtag that'll be the challenge of the week. And they win like book snaps swag and they also guest blog on my blog. It's just so much fun. So be looking for that in May. Also, if you want to copy the link and add a video image, you can do that here. And I just would like to show you a few examples. This isn't just for little people, it's for big people too. As Julie mentioned earlier, her students were creating book snaps and the upper grades. And then these guys are like kindergarten. So sometimes they're making sight word snaps. And you can see on the right where they're just making meaning out of the text. So they see that that's a big cake and they put the yummy emoji. So you're still getting that comprehension. One of our most recent snaps, book snaps has a billion cousins, math snaps, science snaps, all kinds of snaps. But one of the most recent is I read for global read aloud to a group and I read the book exclamation mark. Love that book, but it's all about being true to who you are. And that is something I stand for. It's just being real, being relatable, exposing vulnerability, always approachable and learning through life. So I was telling these kids this and we decided to make real use snaps. And so what each of the students did is they took a self-beam and then they used emojis and drawings and words to express what makes them unique and different and how they want to embrace that. So I just absolutely love their real use snaps. They were so cute and every one of them are so uniquely different. And I think that's the beauty of book snaps too. Everyone can read the same exact passage and everyone can make a book snap and none of them ever look the same ever. So it's great for teaching diversity, respecting and honoring people for who they are and the experiences that they bring to the table when it comes to learning. So if you get in a bind and you can't remember all of these steps, fear not, teraimmartin.com and you go to resources and on the left-hand side, the second tab down is how-to videos. There's a seesaw how-to video in that playlist. So you can just click that, it'll walk you through, you can pause it. The great thing about my website is the kid-friendly website. And there are kids that go there all the time to find resources for different things. So feel free to send your kids there. I don't use ugly language or anything like that on there. So what does it mean to connect to text in the 21st century? I think it means that we speak the kid's language. They love images, they love emojis, they love bitmojis. So if we can get in tune with what they love and allow them to share what they're learning, then we have a better chance of them being more engaged. But not only that, sometimes students actually share with you things that you never would dream of through book snaps because it feels non-threatening. We're using a language that they love, we're allowing them to connect to their learning in a way that's meaningful for them. And they may or may not share something that is super personal, that we may not have ever known that they were thinking, had we not given them this outlet of book snaps? So if you create book snaps, please do find me on Twitter at TerraMart EDU, share your book snaps with me. I will show them lots of love. I try to send video messages and just snap messages, Twitter messages back and forth to kids and encourage them to keep sharing their learning. And we all are made better because they are allowing us to see what they are learning. So thank you so much for joining us. And I suppose now we can take questions. Thank you so much, Terra. Right now the question box is just full of people saying how much they love book snaps and how thankful they are for your webinar. We have a few minutes still tonight, folks. So if you wanna ask Terra a question, go ahead and type it in. We'll have a few minutes for those still tonight. Like Terra said, I was using snaps with big kids and my kids were using iPads. And as some of the screenshots in the webinar were from iOS. But don't forget you can use book snaps even if you're using CESA on a Chromebook. I think the interesting thing is knowing your keyboard commands for emojis depending on what device you're on. But your kids will probably know how to do that is what I'm thinking. Terra, I'm assuming you work with some teachers who have students do snaps, not just on iOS, right? I'm sorry, I missed the question. No, that's fine. I was just saying that sometimes we get teachers asking us about how to find the emojis on Chromebooks. And I was reminding people that their students could do book snaps even not on like mobile devices or iOS. Like they could still take pictures on their Chromebooks. Do you have teachers that use Chromebooks for book snaps? Totally, any of the Google apps. So I often teach them in Google Slides too. And if you go in Google Slides, you can use emojis because all you do is you go to images, upload from the web. And if you upload from the web, you can type in the word emoji and you can type the emotion and it will pull up all the free ones that you can use inside your book snap. So it's fantastic. Now with CESA, it's a little trickier in getting the emojis onto the Chromebook. But what they can do and what we do in my district, we're a Chrome district too, we create them in Google Drawing or Google Slide. And if you go to that playlist on my resources, you will find a how-to video that's very easy to follow. Then you save the book snap as an image and that's how our little people upload them into CESA. They just upload it as an image already created from Google Drawing so they can use all of the images from online into their book snap or snap, science snap or whatever it is they're making. Okay, those are actually really helpful tips, especially if we have some people who are Chromebook users listening tonight. Kristen B is asking some questions about the activity flow in CESA. And Kristen, I can tell you that we have a lot of CESA users using these book snaps as activities. Someone you could connect with on Twitter for a CESA activity link for book snaps is Brenda Morrow at ITech5M. She has a book snaps activity already created. And if you look in the activity library in CESA, you'll see an activity called Describe Yourself and those instructions work really well for the kind of snap that Tara was describing at the end of the webinar. So Tara, here's a question from Krista. Krista is asking, what's your best idea for using book snaps in second grade? You know, this is the advice I give any grade level. Honestly, it's the same. I think the less parameters you could put on it, the best is the best because it allows the students to truly be creative. However, I will say every time I teach book snaps for the first time, whether it's to adults or to kindergartners, I always have them use the same text the first time. So everyone has the same text and we walk through the steps together. And typically I will use my videos just because it's really easy for them. And that's something I can leave with the teacher when I go. And so that is how I started, but it's wonderful if you can take the snaps and you can show them in CESA, it's beautiful because they go to feed view. So you scroll up and you show it projecting on your screen how we all created snaps from the same text and they all look so different. It's great to teach them that we are all going to think differently. And then when they go on their own to create snaps, I usually will have, I upload the video into the CESA feed and just let them have it right there handy. So when they go to create their own snaps, they can do that too. I will say a lot of people try to make it into like a digital worksheet, please, please, please don't do that because when we do that, it just takes all the fun out of it. And it also, it takes all the creativity out of it if we make them do exactly what we want them to do, but digitally. So yeah, there's times where they need to find the main idea, but I would say let there be a little bit of choice and voice there because that's what Book Stamps really is all about. So well said, Tara. And it's like you're reading people's minds because a lot of the questions that I have waiting in the question box are things like what directions do you give students? How do you introduce this to students? And you were really, you were really talking about that as I was scrolling through the question. So I'm glad you covered that. I have worked with teachers who have asked just one quick question to students as they're doing their self-selected reading, like asking them to look for their favorite part or their favorite sentence of that day's reading and then making their book snap around that, just giving students a little bit of a direction as far as what they wanted them to snap that day. But I agree with Tara, kind of less is more probably as far as the directions you give. I'm gonna keep looking for a couple more questions for you, Tara. If you still have a few more minutes. Certainly. I will say that one time I watched a teacher create like a Book Snaps anchor chart and so all the kids were on the carpet. They were brainstorming ideas, primary grade and they were brainstorming ideas of what we would even snap. And so that is how they got just a ton of ideas of what might even go on a snap. And they were like, some of them had it was a little heart and the heart icon meant that was my favorite or this character reminded me of someone else. So they drew like an icon that represented that. And so they brainstormed all kinds of things that might make you connect to the text because I think sometimes students, little people they don't understand what is it that what do you mean connected the text? Like what does that really mean? So they brainstormed all kinds of ways you might connect to the text and then they're like the teacher was pretty open or you might connect to the text in another way but she gave them some ideas. So they had Book Snaps station in their guided reading station stations. They had choice stations but one of them is Book Snaps and the anchor chart just stayed there. So when they were self-select reading they had to grab an iPad and make a snap and upload it into Seesaw. And they had that chart there to remind them of how they might connect to a page. I love that. I love the idea of a station and also the idea of an anchor chart. I have a tip that Stephanie is suggesting she's saying that she uses a website called emojicopy.com on Chromebooks. So that's a helpful tip if anybody's interested in that. I was not aware of that site. So that's a helpful tip. Have you heard of that, Tara? I have not. So thank you for sharing. Emoji, what is it? Emojicopy.com. So we'll have to check that out. That is a good tip for our Chromebooks users. I was in a one-to-one iPad district so I was not using Chromebooks for Book Snaps but I think it's helpful when we can talk about other platforms too because not everybody's using iOS. So thank you for the tip. Tara, mostly what we're getting in the question box is lots of thanks and compliments for you. People were pretty excited about this topic tonight. So I'm just scrolling to see if there's anything else we've missed tonight. And of course, sometimes we can't get to all the questions in real time. So feel free to connect with Tara on Twitter. And then like she said, she has all those resources including videos available on her website. And remember, you're gonna get her slides so you'll have her website there. And I know a lot of people were asking for clarification about the name of the book, The Isolate. So you'll see that in print when you look at the slides later too. Tara, Lauren is asking, do you think Book Snaps would replace a reader's notebook? Can you explain the reader's notebook to me? We'll see if Lauren can type in anymore. So it must just be the terminology that they're using in their school for some of the responses to reading maybe that their students are using. I didn't teach elementary school so that I wasn't using the terminology reader's notebook but. The question that often comes up is do I think Book Snaps will be timeless? I do, I did it when I first created it like it was a solving a problem, right? But as I've studied the science behind the visible learning and even with Hattie's research and many different researchers and why this works, I think as long as there's something out there, some digital piece, some piece of technology that you can create a digital visual representation of what you're learning, then the idea, the strategy Book Snaps will never go away. It's still just a great strategy. That's why it works for every single content area because it's the recreating of the imagery, the thinking that's happening inside of your mind that allows that content to jump out of the working memory and lodge in the long-term memory. In fact, real quick, when students create a Book Snaps, beginning, middle and end of a book, and I don't have enough research on this because it's only been out for a year and a half, but when I get enough, which will be a couple more years, I'll be able to prove this. You can ask the student about three weeks later, we've tried this with multiple sets of kids, control set and not controlled set. You can ask them three weeks a month later about this book and invariably they will always tell you the part of the book they remember is the parts around the Book Snaps that they created. So if you can get them to create a Book Snaps at the beginning and the end or the beginning and the middle of the end, eventually they will probably remember a lot of things about that book, not maybe all the pieces, but they remember the places where they created those Book Snaps. It's pretty incredible actually. Kind of blows my mind even though I know it's gonna happen, even when it just blows my mind every time. Yeah, that's super fascinating. I did not try that experiment with my own students, though I was using Snaps for vocabulary words and I do think that was aiding their retention of those definitions, but that is super fascinating. Lauren is clarifying and giving us a little extra info about Reader's Notebook. She says the place where students reflect on their reading and one quick tip I would give Lauren too if your students are using CSA for Book Snaps, you can just create a Book Snaps folder in CSA and that could kind of be your Book Snaps or Reader's Notebook and then all of those are same in that same folder. Also another tip, Tara always puts the hashtag in front of Book Snaps because she's on Twitter tweeting about Book Snaps all the time. If you put the hashtag in the folder name, what you will find out is that that will bump it to the top of your folder list in CSA so your students won't have to scroll very far to find it. That's stellar. Then I think Book Snaps will totally take any kind of reflection of reading. I think it could potentially take the place of it and I love the idea that that's one of the things I love about the CSA app when creating Book Snaps, easy to organize them. In most other apps, we have to put them, upload them to Padlet or upload them to Google Slides or some way of curation, but with CSA, everything you need is right here in the app. Right, great point. And I think you made a great point too about gallery walks. Like you can print an entire folder so you could print a whole folder of Book Snaps and then you'd have the QR codes and you could leave them out in a bulletin board or hallway display and viewers could come scan those codes to hear student voice. So, I mean, so many possibilities. Tara, I think we're gonna have to wrap up tonight. We're kind of running out of time and questions but remember, connect with either of us on Twitter if you have questions and don't forget to check out all of our upcoming PD. I love all the enthusiasm around Snaps tonight, Tara. I am so excited. Oh, can I share one more thing? Do we have? Absolutely, absolutely. The last one, I just thought of it. It was another gallery walk that we used on a parent night recently and it was Science Snaps. And they had their students like share the science experiments and the successes and the failures, which was so great because it's all verbal. And then so the parents took the iPads and was scanning them around the library. And so they got to like hear their students and see them, their Snaps and then hear what they had to say about it. I just thought it was the cutest thing ever. It was all Science Snaps and involved parents on the parent night. So, there's endless opportunities when it comes to seesaw and all the options we have here. Oh, absolutely. And if you're on Twitter, those of you who are listening tonight, you'll see all kinds of Snaps. Teachers are making Snaps about everything. So Science Snaps, Math Snaps, you'll find so many and you know, it's all kind of born with Book Snaps. So a lot of credit to Tara. Thanks so much for being with us tonight, Tara. Everybody, don't forget to give me about a minute's worth of feedback on the survey. And I hope you can join us again soon. Thanks again, Tara. Thank you. Have a good one.