 Welcome to Getting Started with CESA for Pre-K through Second Grade Teachers. We are so honored to have you here today, spending your time learning a little bit more about CESA. Before we get started, this is a reminder that this session is extremely interactive. We want you to play with CESA as a student. So that means you need to have the class version of the app downloaded on a second device. That means you can look and find it wherever you find your apps on your device. Here's just a couple images of where they might be found in the device that you are using. Again, we are using the class version of the app today. And as a reminder as well, if you're using a computer, you actually don't need to download anything. You can just open a new browser tab and go to app.CESA.me. We don't need to sign in or create an account at this point. I'm just kind of preparing you for the interactive portion of our presentation. So the other thing I want to let you know about is starting on August 13th, any session that you view from our PD and PJs, you actually can get a certificate for viewing the content. This is great to maybe show your administration or keep to prove that, you know, you're doing amazing things learning and growing professionally. So if you are live, no worries, we are going to email the certificate directly to you. But if you're watching this via a recording, make sure you listen for the code during this session. I will actually say two segments of a six character code during this session and you will fill out a form with that code to get your certificate. Pretty easy. All right, so let's get started. I'm Angela. I taught kindergarten for 15 years in my classroom. I have five iPads in about 24 students. I now lead the community team at CESA because I experienced the amazing benefits that CESA provided, not only for me, the teacher, but the students in my classroom and their families. And I'm so passionate about supporting you to get started as well. Please find me on Twitter. I'm at Mrs. Gadki. Send me a message. Let me know that you're watching this. Let me know how it's going in your classroom. I'd love to connect with you. And let's talk about our plan for today. I am going to introduce you to CESA. We are going to talk about CESA. We will explore the creative tools that are built in. You are going to explore a lot as a student today. I will share classroom ideas for you to really make implementing and starting CESA really easy. And then we will pause at the end for questions and to share next steps. So let's get started. CESA is the best platform for empowering students to demonstrate their learning. We have three main components. We have student portfolios, formative insights, and family communication when you're using CESA. We are able to help your students unlock creative thinking. They are able to explore amazing, powerful tools to show what they know in ways that work best for them. And again, this works in any grade level or subject area. As a teacher, also note that we have help and inspiration for you. Inside CESA is our activity library with thousands of engaging activities ready to use within CESA. So let's pause for a moment and think about how does this work? What's the basic flow of CESA? First, your students are able to use these intuitive tools to capture and demonstrate learning in their portfolio. Teachers get valuable insights into what students understand without lots of extra steps and extra work. And then families see their child's work and can leave comments and encouragement as well when you are ready to open that aspect of CESA with your classroom. I think a great way to hear and learn about CESA is directly from a student. So I'm actually going to go to this student example. I'm going to open it up. I'm going to make sure my volume is turned up. And this is actually from a first grade student. They had been working with addition concepts. So students went and were exploring with math manipulatives in their classroom. Probably looks like something you do in your classroom, right? Then what they did is they took a photo and added it to CESA to further explain and reflect. So let's listen. This is how I make seven. Four plus three equals seven. Six plus one equals seven. Five plus three equals seven. Wait, no. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Now I need to cross out one of these. Okay. And five plus three does not equal seven. So five plus two equals seven. I love that. So in less than 30 seconds as the teacher, I can hear exactly what my students are thinking because they had that opportunity to pause, explain and reflect. She actually self corrected and made, you know, reflected and figured out how to fix that mistake. Right. So as a teacher, when I get these insights, I'm easily able to plan instruction and next steps for my students, which again is saving me a lot of, you know, time and extra effort to try to figure out, oh, what, what, what's next? How do I get this info from my students? So I want you also to know right off the bat here. Don't add this to your list. This is not something we're going to add to this super long list of all those things you are trying to accomplish at this point in the year. Rather really think of it as a way to enhance what you are already doing in your classroom. I guarantee if you are here right now listening to the session, you are a teacher that goes above and beyond in your classroom and most likely has very solid teaching strategies that you're already using. This is actually a way to enhance that. And again, gain you insights as the teacher as well. So we're going to explore that today. As a reminder, seesaw works great in any classroom. You can have shared devices or one to one devices. And seesaw is free. We are only going to talk about all the free features of seesaw today. So nothing we're going to show you today is the paid version of seesaw. We'll talk a little bit more about that in other sessions. So if we peek inside of a seesaw class on the left here, you'll see the feed of all the student work. This is the journal. This is where all the student work will be shown to you as a teacher. On the right, you see the list of student names. Those are each individual student portfolios. So if I were to actually tap on each student name, my feed on the left would filter to just that student, which is really handy. So when you think of a traditional portfolio, maybe that, you know, you have a huge binder with all these different sections, one for each student. This is how you view that in seesaw. The other component of seesaw that's really important and critical to know about is this green add button. And we are going to play a lot with that today. That's basically where all the action starts is that green add button. And we will show you how to use that. I'm zooming in right here to show you that in this class, there are student names. And like I mentioned, these are the portfolios. Because we have tons, hundreds of teachers here today, participating and practicing. I don't have your names listed in the class that we are going to join. That means today you are actually going to be joining a portfolio that matches the first letter of your first name. So I'm going to show you what my class looks like here in a second. So again, I am going to be the teacher today. You are going to stay the student. So right now I'm actually going to move out of the slides for a second and just go into the seesaw class that we are going to be joining. And you might think, oh my goodness, what is all this stuff? This is teachers playing. Okay. This is a professional development class that we have set up. You are going to be playing in here as well. You're going to be learning how to capture and reflect with photo and voice and drawing. And you'll notice here on the right, do you see how I don't have a student name listed? That's because this is just a PD class. And I have hundreds of you with me here today. So again, you're going to be sharing a portfolio with someone else, but just note, of course, in your own classroom, students will have their own portfolio that they're working with. Now, because I'm getting ready to add my students, you, into this class today, I wanted to show you how to do that when you actually have your account as a teacher. In the bottom right, I see this button that says plus students. I'm going to click on that. And because I already have students entered into this class by name. This is what I get right now. I get the class code that people can scan to join. This does not expire. But this code right here that I'm going to copy right now does expire in the next hour. This is a text code. And we'll talk about that for those of you that are live. I'm actually going to paste that text code into the chat box of this session, because you might choose to use that if you're trying to, you know, enter this class and you're trying to, maybe scan with a different computer or something like that. But I want to draw your attention right now to the bottom right corner where it says print student sign in poster, because this is key to getting your pre K through second grade students into seesaw. I'm actually just going to tap that right now because seesaw is doing the work for you. We are generating a unique poster that you hang up in your classroom. This is the key to your classroom. This is the key to your class. This is not something you share with anyone else, but here is our unique poster for our class. Getting started pre K too. So I wanted just to show you where I got that from, because as I go back into the slides right now, you are actually in a moment going to be joining as a student and participating. So. Excuse me. As I mentioned for younger students, this is so easy for them to get signed into seesaw. I mean, let's just think for a second here. It is no fun to have a student try to struggle with entering, you know, a 15 digit username and 15, 20 digit password to try to get into something. Our students at these younger students you're working with can simply tap the seesaw app scan this code and they are in it is amazing. And you are going to get to experience that for yourself as a student today. So this is when you want to grab your second device and you want to get ready to participate as a student, because we are about to get started and play. So again, as a reminder, if you're having any sort of issues, make sure you type it in the question box, but I'm going to move pretty slowly here to make sure everybody gets signed in. So if you already have seesaw on your device, tap the seesaw icon, but you might get there and it might do this. That means you're already signed in as a student, or I'm sorry, as a teacher. We're not going to be a teacher today. So right now on the screen, I'm just modeling for those of you that happen to be signed into your class as a teacher. So what you are going to want to do right now is tap in the upper left on your profile icon, and then tap the gear icon and tap sign out. That is how you will get to this screen where we are all going to start today. So all of you that are here today participating, this is the time where we're going to be a student. So again, we've just tapped the seesaw class app. Your screen looks probably pretty identical to this, and we are going to follow these steps together right now. So remember that sign-in poster that I showed you? I'm actually going to break it down even further so we can do this together. First of all, tap I'm a student. We are not using email sign-in at all today, so make sure you choose scan code. I'm a student in scan code. This is the code. Oh, I'll show you in a second. When you tap scan code, a built-in QR reader is going to pop up. This is already inside seesaw. We make it simple. Don't try to use a separate QR reader that is not going to work for you. Make sure you allow permissions for seesaw to use your camera or mic, and then you are going to scan this code. So go ahead and scan this class QR code. You are going in as a student. So we have tapped I'm a student. We are scanning this code right now. This code is going to work for you. Those of you viewing via the recording, this code is going to work for you. So you can pause right now. You can scan this code with your second device. As a student, you will be able to join our seesaw class. For those of you joining live, and maybe you're having a problem scanning the code, look in that chat box for that code, that text code that you could type in. If you have a computer that doesn't have a camera, you can type in the text code. If you are here live, that text code will expire within the next hour. If you are using the text code, which is in the chat box. So I'm pausing here to make sure everyone is getting signed in. Okay. Getting into seesaw again. We're just scanning this code. We've tapped the class app. We've chosen I'm a student. I'm going to get a little bit of information about the class. So for those of you who are still in a class, you should be in the class with all sorts of stuff already in there from other teachers that have been playing with seesaw. All right. So for those of you that are still in as a teacher, make sure you sign out in the top left. Tap your profile icon. Tap the gear icon and sign out. If you are signed in as a teacher right now, make sure you get in as a student. If you are in class with a teacher, make sure you get in as a teacher. If you are in class with a teacher, where is that text code? I'm actually going to make sure you all get that right now sent to you so everyone can see that. So you can have access to that code. So today you do have the option if you're live to type in the text code or scan this class code right here. All right. So we are going to keep moving. So I'm going to show you some great modeling just like you would true kindergarten teacher shine through here. So I'm going to show you the first creative tool. You're not going to do anything out except for just watch. So when we look at the photo tool in seesaw, it is built right in, which is amazing. Your students don't have to jump between all sorts of different spots. They can just tap the photo tool after they do that. They're ready to go. They can take a photo. You are going to find a 3D shape in the room you're in right now. So maybe it's your water bottle. It's your tissue box. I don't know. What can you find a cylinder or a cone or a prism, something, and you're going to just take a photo of that. And then once your photo is taken, you're just going to tap the green check in the upper right. What that does is it sends you to select your name. The first letter of your first name is the portfolio you are looking for. So you're going to tap the green check in the upper right. Again, this class is set up so you can view each other's work. That's just how I've set it up today. And then you'll notice once you tap that green check, it is waiting for teacher approval. Nothing goes anywhere until it goes to the teacher's eyes in your seesaw class. So are you ready to try this? Here we go. Now you kind of watched me walk through those steps. So you're going to tap that green add button. You're going to tap that green add button. You're going to tap that green add button because you are signed in as a student. After you tap the green add button, go ahead and just follow these cues, right? You're going to tap the photo tool. Take a photo of a three-dimensional shape somewhere in your room. Then tap the green check. Choose the portfolio that matches the first letter of your message. And then you're going to tap that green add button. And then you're going to tap that green add button again. And it's going into our seesaw class today. So I'd like to give you a couple of minutes to do that right now. I'll put a little background music on. And then we'll continue. All right. So hopefully you had some time to play. Now again, I encourage you to, you know, keep playing throughout the session today. If you're watching the recording, if you're going to stay signed in as a student, I'm going to pop over and show you right now from the teacher view, what is happening. When I go into this class that you are in as a teacher, I'm going to refresh my screen to make sure I have all the latest and greatest learnings from you. But check this out on the bottom. Do you see this gigantic red bar? That is saying I have 75 unapproved posts right now from you, those of you that are live participating. And again, if you're watching the recording, you can still participate in practice by scanning that class code. I'm going to tap review right now because again, nothing goes into, ooh, those blueberries look great. Nothing goes into seesaw without teacher approval. So I can approve one at a time. Perfect cylinder there with a highlighter. Okay. Ooh, nice. That's a great cylinder too. Ooh, I'm seeing lots of cylinders. Okay. So I can approve these one at a time. Awesome. So you could see as a teacher really quickly, if you're just doing a quick check in with your students, like show me a rectangular prism or find a parallel line. That is really fast for them to do in seesaw and you have some great insights as well. Now I could tap the delete to delete an item. If it's inappropriate for some reason, I also can on the bottom, use this button and approve all of these posts at once. And of course in your own classroom, you would be looking and viewing at all of these, but I trust our amazing professionals here today. So I'm going to approve all. Now keep in mind, again, you'll see here that I'm in the journal view. That is where everything is going into my class journal as a teacher. This is where I can view all of that student work in one spot. So I'm going to hop back into our slide deck right now because we have so much more to learn today. Let's talk about some classroom ideas. So I think it's really smart to start really simple, especially with our pre-k through second grade learners. As a teacher, it's totally fine. If you take a day or two and capture learning in the moment, when you are signed in to seesaw as a teacher, you can tap that green add button and choose post to student journal or post student work. And you can take a photo and then add it to that child's portfolio. So think about this. This is actually one of my little friends from the first day of kindergarten. I thought, oh, this is going to spur amazing conversation at home, right? So right now I've added this to this child's portfolio. The family is connected because I had my families connect actually before the first day of school. And then they got this notification and they could view only their own child's work. Wow. Can you imagine the conversation that's going to happen at home after that first day? When your little peanuts get home and their family's like, what happened? What happened on the first day? And they're overwhelmed and I don't know or nothing. But let's start those conversations from day one. Let's build that relationship between home and school. And it's as simple as just even taking a photo. Really quickly, as I mentioned at the beginning, students can document their own work, right? So here's some examples of students documenting in math and documenting in science. Again, I love about seesaw that you can document that hands-on learning that we know is happening in your classroom and bridge it into the digital to add those layers of reflection. So one quick story I want to tell about my little friend in the upper left here. I had asked my students to show me what they knew about patterns. And I was really trying to determine if they could create an A, B, A, B pattern. And this is at the beginning of the year in September. And so I said, you can go in our classroom, you know, use whatever materials you want. You just have to use two colors and make a pattern. Then take a photo and seesaw and show me what you did. So they did that, you know, even with our shared devices as students finished, they just grabbed the device, took their photo and seesaw. And when I got this little guy's, I was like, oh, gosh, no, he doesn't have A, B, A, B pattern. Obviously doesn't know, doesn't know A, B, A, B pattern. And then I thought, wait a second. This student did exactly what I asked. He created a pattern with two colors. And you'll notice it's much more complex than the A, B, A, B pattern, you know, that I had asked. I had actually said, if you remember, two colors. So he built a two color pattern. But because he was able to use seesaw and choose his materials, it didn't limit his ability to show me actually the depth of his knowledge. So this, again, when we talk about those insights, I'm able to capture that really quickly and really know kind of what I'm going to do next with those students. Now, you can also draw on top of photos and seesaw. Maybe they're demonstrating a concept. So after you take a photo, you can use any of our expressive pens to demonstrate that concept. I love this example. So this is from my classroom. We were growing crystal gardens and they're very fragile. You can't take them home. And I thought, oh gosh, you know, before seesaw existed in my classroom, we had science notebooks. They would, you know, use their paper and marker and crayons and draw an experiment we did in science. So I thought, oh gosh, you know, I'm going to take a photo. That would take about 20 minutes. And then we would normally run out of time for the key component, which is the reflection and prediction that happens at the end. So I thought to myself, oh, with seesaw, they could just snap a photo. We clearly see what's going on here. They can use that time to then explain, reflect, make some predictions, right? And in this example, you'll see they've done this post, you know, they showed the progress of this experiment as well. But my very favorite way to get started with seesaw in our early childhood primary classes is using it during writer's workshop. And we know that students are all over the board with their abilities to draw, write, read, all of that when they're entering our classrooms. But seesaw really gives them the opportunity to, in this example, the student has taken a photo of their writer's workshop. Remember, I didn't change how I structured my writer's workshop, right? I'm still doing my mini lesson. They're still going off and doing their independent writing. But now I've enhanced this because I've given them the opportunity to read their story and record it. I am great at art. Okay, you love the little sweet voice, right? Students want to tell their story. They can practice their oral storytelling for those non-readers and writers. This is huge. Even for those students that are readers and writers, it gives them the opportunity to practice their fluency. It's in a portfolio. They can see their progress from, you know, from month to month or even week to week and sometimes. Okay. I'm going to pause here for a moment and remember, I said you can get a certificate for viewing this session. The first three digits you will need to get that certificate are the numbers one, two, nine. All right. As we continue, let's look at assessments. How can CISA help you with assessments? I know in your classroom you spent a lot of time doing one on one assessments with students. Think about sight word checks, right? This student has taken a photo and recorded their voice. I can read this week's sight words. They're about explaining school word because able between different current. Hello. I love this, right? When I saw this as a teacher in 10 seconds, I knew what the student was able to do. I actually then circled, oh, we're going to revisit where we're going to get in a small group with my other friends that need that and off we go. Now normally I would do this with each student individually. It would take me 30, maybe 45 minutes to assess each student one-on-one while the rest of my class is working independently, right? But think about that's 30 to 40 minutes of instructional time that I have saved. It's captured here. I can listen to it. So just all sorts of little tidbits I'm giving you here today. Are we ready to create with photo and voice? I think one of the most powerful aspects of CISA is just simply photo and voice. So we're going to try that today. And you are going to try your amazing artistic abilities. And in five seconds about, maybe you have a quick piece of paper next to you or a pen or something that you can use to draw a self-portrait. Okay. Now I'm talking, you know, I'm giving you five seconds. So there's no judgment here today. Draw your five-second self-portrait because what I'm going to ask you to do is I want you then to take a photo of that self-portrait. And we're going to record our voice saying, what are we interested in learning about this year? This might be something you already do in your classroom. Again, CISA is about enhancing what you're already doing. So I'm sure you have your student at the beginning of the year. Maybe they're drawing a self-portrait. Maybe they're goal setting, right? So add a layer of CISA to that. So what you're going to do right now is after you've drawn your amazing self-portrait in five seconds, you're going to tap that green add button. We're going to choose the photo, but this time after we take that photo of your self-portrait, tap the microphone that you'll see pop up on the left. And then tap the green check, add it to your portfolio. Tell me something you're interested in learning about this year. It can be as a teacher, of course, as well. So I'm going to give you a couple of minutes to do that. Let's try it. All right. Hopefully you got a chance to add that to our CISA class. If you're still working, that's okay. I'm going to show you a couple more classroom ideas. So when we think about what you just did, you just took a photo, you added your voice. Now students can continue as their CISA, as they become more familiar with CISA like you are, they can add more layers to their learning. So for example, here's the second grader explaining a math concept. They're using photo, drawing, and voice together. This is a group of 16, and I figured out 16 is an even number because there is four groups, there is eight groups of two. And when, and none left over, I can also do an addition sentence. Eight plus equals 16. Again, do you hear the students in the background? They're still working and doing the things that they need to do in their daily classroom day. And the student is just taking a quick moment to record and reflect in CISA. Again, as a teacher, this is getting you great insights into what your students are able to do. Again, enhancing what you're already doing in your classroom. Let's talk about literacy stations. Maybe you do daily five like I did in my classroom. And then think of any component in your day where you are trying to work with a small group of students. Okay, so maybe you're doing a guided reading group and you look around your classroom and you've got 20 other students that you're hoping fingers crossed are independently working at various other stations, right? Adding CISA to the mix really adds this level of amazing accountability for the students, but also you get to see their work and it doesn't necessarily need to be a situation where, you know, it always has to be a worksheet, right? As I mentioned before, I love that CISA allows this opportunity for students to use those hands on materials. So for example, in this station, students were doing word work. They created a tree map and they were sorting their site work cards. So this student then just quickly at the end, recapt what he had done. These are the words that have T and M. Two, that's what and the. All right, again, quick, quick check. The student is able to show me and tell me what they know, which is actually very empowering for them as well. Think about reading fluency. Don't we all want to hear our students more frequently? Have them take a quick picture of a book that they're reading and CISA and do maybe a 60 second fluency check. They can do that. What if you're working with a group of students and you have been practicing a strategy and then you send them off into the world and you hope they can independently apply that. So this example here, what you'll see in the slides when you get them is, is a student that is using the strategy of supporting predictions with text evidence. So take a peek at that. What we're going to do right now is actually check in with another tool, the drawing tool in CISA. And as you tap the drawing tool in CISA, you are going to be taken to a screen that looks like this. And there are so many options here. Students can use labels. They can draw and record at the same time to really capture that learning process before that was only something that was available if you were using an iPad or an Android device. Now you can also draw and record at the same time. If you have a Chromebook or any computer that's getting to CISA via the website. So you can also make a collage with multiple photos. Students can add over 25 photos to this canvas. There's shapes and backgrounds. And then do you see these amazing annotation tools here? We have the pencil, pen, a highlighter, a glow pen, which can be kind of fun. And then of course any color of the rainbow that students can create with just by starting with the blank slate. Now, true story. I think it was April in my classroom, maybe the end of April. And I was freaking out because I had tons of counting assessments to do with my students. And I thought, how am I going to get this all done? How am I going to, you know, make sure I'm meeting all the needs of my students? And I thought, huh, why am I not just doing this in CISA? Well, my five friends come because I had five iPads. They grabbed an iPad. They went off to a recording spot in our classroom, which we'll talk about more later in a follow up sessions. But that basically means they have their own spot to reflect and think. So here we go. I can count by fast. Five, 10, 15, 20. 20 for 30. Okay. So she gets to 100, spoiler alert. But for me as a teacher, again, I'm saving a ton of instructional time. I'm not sitting there one on one with the student when I can easily capture the same information with CISA. Again, it's not earth shattering, but it kind of was in the moment I figured it out. More that you can do with the drawing tool. So as I mentioned, students can add labels. They can draw and record with their voice. So this is an example of a word sort that a student created in CISA. So I'm going to stop it. It goes on for a little bit there, but just again, sparking some ideas. Students can also start with a photo. Maybe you're in a maker space. The student is building a circuit. They then added labels to the top of the photo to explain what they had created in the parts there. So we're actually going to start with a photo. So I'm going to start with a photo. So I'm going to start with a photo. And then I'm going to go back to what they had created. So I'm going to start with a photo. So I'm going to start by drawing what they had created in the parts there. So we're actually going to explore right now with drawing, photo, voice, whatever kind of you want to explore. And what I'm curious about is I have shown you a lot of ideas, but I want you to think of maybe the one CISA idea where you're like, Oh, I'm totally doing that in my classroom. I'm going to try that. in your classroom. So you are going to tap that green add button. You're going to choose the drawing tool first this time and then you can draw maybe draw a picture or write a word. Do whatever you want. Just play. Play around in there. But then I want you to tap that mic and I want you to explain and say, what are you going to use C-soft board in your classroom? What's one way? And I'm really trying to get you to reflect here in the moment. All those ideas spinning around in your head, right? There might be a lot going on. Just pause for a moment and reflect at this time. What are you going to use? What's one way you're going to use C-soft? So go ahead and do that right now. Alright, so you've been playing around in our C-soft class. I haven't checked back in for a while as a teacher. So I'm just gonna go there right now. I'm gonna refresh. Look at all these unapproved posts that I have. Again, as a teacher everything comes to you first. So I can tap here and review. Oh, look at this, right? Child to demonstrate learning again. So you're just playing around with some of the drawing tools. Look at some of these amazing self-portraits. Wow! Okay, so again, I'm just scrolling quickly here as a teacher. I can improve these one at a time. I could delete one at a time if I wanted to. This is looking great. Oh yay! Someone found our new shapes that you can add as well. So again, I can also approve all. All of this work is going into the journal. So you understand that flow, right? Your students are creating. It's coming to you to approve and then it is added to the class journal. Again, as a reminder, if I tap on any of these individual portfolios, this feed will just sort to that child's portfolio, right? So you can easily see just an individual student's work as well. But I'm gonna go back here and tap class journal because then I see all of my students work coming in right there. All right, so we are doing awesome here today. Great work. Let's talk about how we get families connected to CSaw because, wow, this is going to completely be a game changer for you with connecting with families. Here's how it works. So families use the free CSaw Family app. It is completely different app. So they can download the app or they can go to the website app.csaw.me. It is free and you are able to use CSaw to really think about how however you've communicated with families in the past, I almost guarantee it can be done in CSaw. So announcements, class photos, newsletters, you can send them a Google form to sign up for conferences. All these things can be done in CSaw via the class app on your side as the teacher going to the family app. So inside CSaw right now, you have two options for inviting families. You can print paper invites that are available in 15 languages. You can also view a sample email to send to families as well. So I'm going to just show you literally how fast and easy this is. So let's say we, you know, your students have posted something, right? And you're like, let's get the family connected. On the bottom right, I just tap the plus families button and I have my option show up right here. I can again print paper invites. It comes in any of these languages. I'm going to choose that option. That's what I did in my kindergarten classroom by click print paper invites. Again, CSaw is doing the work for you. It is generating a one page invitation unique to each student in your class. So it's giving you some instructions here as a teacher, but then here we go. Student A and of course I would say their real name, right? Like Annabelle. This is Annabelle's. So what this has on it is not the class QR code. This is a code only for their own child's journal. So that's why you want to make sure that this letter goes to the student listed at the top. So what families do is they just they open the CSaw family app, they scan this code, they create their account and they're connected. That's it. They can also connect from a computer as well. And the instructions are on that page. And just as a reminder, families only see their own child's work. They don't see everybody's work in the class. They only see work that their own child is tagged in. Okay, here we go. Are you ready to shift from student mode to teacher mode? If you are and you're like, Yes, Angela, I want to do this right now. You can actually join me and see how to create your own class. Or you could sit back and just watch me do this right now. And then no, when you get the recording, you could also do it later if you want to do that. So I'm going to go into our CSaw class right now. And just note, this is only for you of those of you using free CSaw. If your school is using the paid version of CSaw, CSaw for schools, they actually create classes for you. So you would not want to create a class if you're using the paid version of CSaw, that your school is setting up for you. So what I'm going to do right now is just show you how to do this. I'm going to go in the upper left. I'm going to tap my gear icon as a teacher and choose sign out because I want to I'm going to start from the beginning for those of you that are watching because I want to show you how fast and easy this is. So I'm going to tap I'm a teacher, I've just gone to the website app.csaw.me. I'm tapping I'm a teacher. And I'm going to choose create my account if you don't already have a teacher account. So I'm going to create my account. It's going to be called Angela Tester. And here we go. Of course, you would use a real email address. Whoops. See, I'm trying to type and talk and do all this at the same time. Wow. It's not working so well for me right now. But let's let's see if we can get it. Yay, passwords match. Okay, so I'm going to create my teacher account. And now it's so easy. You can import from Google Classroom. So if you're already using Google Classroom, and you have a class set there, you can click that button and put it right in a seesaw to build your seesaw class. I did not have that. So I am just going to create my seesaw class. This is Gadkis kindergarten. I'm going to choose my grade level, tap the green check. And voila, my class is done. It's ready. Okay, you I encourage you to play around as as a student, go ahead and tap the screen, add button, try posting to a student journal, just like we did today, play around, you can't you really can't break anything. Okay, we even have sample student already there for you to play with. So you can tag sample students as your portfolio as you're playing with. But if you're like, no, I let's make this happen. I want my students in this class right now. Then on the bottom right, you're just going to tap plus students. And then there's a couple questions. Do you want your students signing in with Google or email addresses? My answer was no. Are they shared devices or one to one devices? We had shared devices. So I'm going to choose that. And then I can just start typing in my students name. Okay. So I'm just gonna, you know, get some student names in here. Now, if you have a class list, oh my goodness, just tap paste the list of student names. And it will get your your students just you can copy and paste it in so handy dandy. Let's see. All right, so I'm going to pretend that that I'm done. I'm going to tap the green check. It's adding my students. It's also showing how they're going to join my class, right? And a reminder, in the bottom right is that student sign in poster that's going to get created, but I'm going to x out of this right now. So do you see all my students are right there? Now a little trick I want to show you. When my students were added right now, it looks like they're just like letter icons. If I refresh in the top left. For some reason, if you refresh, then it will show these cute little emoji friends, right? For your students that are at the pre K to level. That's also kind of handy so they can quickly find the portfolio that matches, you know, their name or they'll remember the icon as well. So keep that in mind. So you just created your class. So again, I would encourage you just to play as a teacher. You're not going to break anything. Post a student journal or post student work is what you might see right there when you tap that green add button and and play around have a little fun practice the flow of using seesaw. And then if you want if you're like, Oh my gosh, I need to keep going. I want to learn more come tomorrow to our live session at the same time. We are talking about part two and we're actually going to explore the CSI activity library. We're going to spend a lot of time walking you through the kindergarten getting started guide. So if you're really interested in quick mini lessons, you can use to introduce your students to see saw and get them going make sure you come to getting started part two. You can actually register for that session anytime by following this link right here or just typing in that link. If you're viewing the recording that will take you to the registration page. So make sure you join us for that. I also want to let you know if you're brand new, cool, our health center is amazing. So make sure you bookmark health dot seesaw dot me. Tons of resources are there for you ready to support you getting started. And as just a reminder, this is my public service announcement for the day. Don't share your class code. I shared our code with you today because we're a global classroom of learners. You want to keep this off of social media out of photos and inside your classroom, of course, because privacy is our priority here at CISA and we are really really that's fundamental to our mission. So make sure you check out our privacy center. Here's how you find that as well. And we are so grateful that you spent time with us today. And those of you listening to the recording, the next three digits you're going to need to get your certificate are zero, three, four. So those six digits will be used in the forum and you can see in the description for getting your certificate for attending this session. So we are so grateful to have you in our CISA community and boy, oh boy, do you see all of the ways that our teachers connect on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, make sure you join those communities and participate in that conversation as well. So many good ideas are shared there and we hope you'll come back for more live sessions. 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