 Hi, welcome to learn to create seesaw activities. My name is Yvonne Post and I am a training and professional development specialist for seesaw. Prior to coming to seesaw, I was a kindergarten first and second grade teacher, and then became an academic technology coach for pre-K through fifth grades. I currently live in Texas and I'm so excited to be here with you all today. So let's get started. Seasaw activities allow you to create structured experiences that transform learning. Seasaw activities allow you to provide text and audio directions, multimodal examples, or an engaging image, and interactive multi-dimensional templates. You'll also be able to add teacher notes, tag activities to folders and skills, and share activities with colleagues. That's a lot you can do all in seesaw. Today, we will learn how to create seesaw activities to deliver instruction and provide opportunities for deliberate practice. In this training, you will learn how to create an activity of your own and keep everything organized. Let's start by learning how to create a seesaw activity. To navigate to the activity library, tap the library button next to messages or the green add button and then assign activity. In my library, tap create new activity. Easy, fill out your activity details. Now I'm gonna walk you through each part. First, include a descriptive title, then type step-by-step instructions. Notice you can add emojis and seesaw icon shortcuts. Those are the words you can see in between the colons. When you type seesaw icon shortcuts into your instructions, they transform into icons when you click save. You can also record voice instructions, attach a multimedia example, like an exemplar, instructional video, a picture that gets students interested and excited. You can use any seesaw tool to add your example, so you might upload an exemplar link to a supplemental video or article, record a demo video, or attach other materials that support students to complete the activity. When you attach an example, you see a preview here. Note that students can only view the example. They won't be able to respond on it. If you want to provide a template for student responses, tap add template for student responses. So you might upload a graphic organizer template or PDF, take a photo for your students to annotate, create a note to share guiding questions, or use multi-page to create an interactive multi-page template. You have access to all of seesaw's learning tools to create your template. Most teachers start with the drawing tool. On the seesaw canvas, create guided and interactive templates with text, shapes, photos, videos, and more. Seasaw for schools users can create multi-page templates that support dynamic, multi-step learning experiences. Just tap add page to add up to 20 pages per activity. You will see a preview when your template is attached. Save that activity and you're ready to assign. Assign the activity to your whole class or to select students, tap assign. Choose a class or multiple classes to assign to all students. To assign to select students, tap edit students, folders, and skills. In the students tab, check the box next to students or groups of students you want to receive the activity. Tap the green check, then tap assign. Teachers with multiple classes can repeat this process for each class to assign the activity to select students across classes at once. So how can you transform an existing lesson with seesaw activities? Take a moment to jot down your thoughts. So some ideas you may have thought of. You can provide multimodal directions and resources to support learning. Allow students to share their thinking and learn in many ways. Seasaw activities just offer so many possibilities. Another way to create multi-dimensional learning experiences is by leveraging video, audio, and links. Once again, create a new activity and add a template for student responses. Either record a video in seesaw up to five minutes or upload a video file up to 250 megabytes. In your video, explain our demo directions, model the task, give a mini lesson, or whatever else your students may need. By default, your video will be locked in place on the canvas. Unlock the video by tapping on the three dots, then unlock. Use the move tool to drag the corners of the video to make room on the canvas for students to share their learning. Add shapes, labels, drawings, or photos to build a learning task students will complete. Keep in mind that at this time, you can only have one video for each page. Since you added a video, students will not be able to respond with a video. You can also add audio recordings to any object. Tap the three dots, then audio. You might read text aloud or explain a photo. Seasaw for schools users can create multi-page templates, which means even more room for learning. You might add your video to page one, then tap add page to add additional pages. Here, we use page two to give students more space to show their learning. Sometimes you may want to show a screen recording of how to complete a certain part of the activity. Use the microphone. Now it's your turn to explore. Pause the video now to create a seesaw activity. First, tap create new activity. Next, your goal is to create an activity that uses seesaws multimodal tools to engage learners. And last, don't forget to save. Once you start making activities, it's important to stay organized. So we have two teacher-tested tips for you. When students complete activities, those activities disappear from their activities tab. But those activities do not disappear from your activities tab. Take a few minutes each week to organize your activities tab. So only active activities show in your tab. When all students complete an activity or an activity is no longer relevant, clear it from your activities tab. To clear out old activities, tap the three dots on the activity. If there are student responses, you'll be prompted to archive. Don't worry, student responses are not deleted. This just clears the activity from your tab. If no students have responded, then you'll be prompted to delete it. You can always go back to my library and assign it again. Or tap bulk archive. To select a date range, to archive multiple activities at once, just select the assigned on or before date. Tap archive activities, and all activities that were assigned on or before that date will be archived from your activities tab. And also students to-do list. Don't worry, existing student responses will still be visible in the journal tab. Next, keep my library organized with collections. Activities you save or create in my library show in the order they're saved or created, which means it can be kind of hard to find what you need quickly. Collections help you organize my library and save time. Remember, any activity or collection you create is always private to you. In my library, scroll to the bottom to my collections. Create a new collection by typing a title and tapping create. You might make collections by week, subject, unit of study, or another system of your own. Organize activities into collections by tapping activities, not in a collection. You'll see all the activities you need to organize. On an activity, tap organize and select a collection or create a new collection by tapping the plus sign. Once you organize activities into collections, it's easier to find and assign them. Simply tap on the collection title under my collections. And there's your collection. Any activity you tag to this collection will show here. Another way to add an activity to a collection is by tapping the three dots on an activity, then add to collection. Select the collection you want to add it to and it's added. Keep in mind there are some limits. So if you need to delete a collection, tap on a collection, tap the three dots, then tap delete collection. Don't worry, this will not delete the activities in the collection from your my library. Now it's your turn to explore. Pause the video now to get organized. First, archive or delete an activity in the activities tab. Next, tap bulk archive activities in the activities tab. And last, create a collection in my library. You did it. You're ready to transform learning with seesaw activities. You learned how to create original seesaw activities and you learned how to keep those activities organized. With these skills, there's so much more you can do on seesaw and there's a lot more we'd love to show you. You can find more free training at learn.seesaw.me and web.seesaw.me forward slash training. We hope to see you again soon here at seesaw.