 Hello everyone and welcome to the first five activities in CESA for grades pre-k through second grade. We are honored that you are here today with us, learning a little bit more about how to get started with CESA with your students. So I'm Angela. I am with you here today and I taught kindergarten for 15 years. So getting to spend time with you all in a similar grade level. I just love it. So I was in a classroom that had five iPads that we shared and we made CESA work wonderfully each day. So I now lead the community team here at CESA because I am very passionate about helping you get started. You can find me on Twitter at Mrs. Gadkey if you have questions that you want to shoot my way. Also, I want to let you know that this webinar is not going to walk through the step-by-step process of getting started with CESA in order to get that. I hope you've watched brand new to CESA part one webinar. And if you haven't, if you're like, Angela, this is the first one I'm coming to. What do you mean? When you get these slides, you can actually click on the link here and check out that webinar for your grade level. So definitely check that out. So today we are really focused on how do I get started with students? And the CESA activity library is going to be kind of your go-to tool to really support you as you get started with students using CESA. So I want to let you know, too, before we jump in, really jump in here, is if you use CESA last year and you haven't updated the app yet, the CESA app, make sure you check kind of wherever you need to on your device to make sure it's updated to at least CESA 6.0. And make sure all your student devices got updated to at least CESA 6.0 because that's where you're going to see all of these new features that we're talking about with activities and getting started with students. So make sure you check that. Now, what I love is that the activity library is really going to save you a ton of time because we've done a lot of work for you about thinking through how to get started with students. These activities are ready for you to use instantly. It's going to save you a lot of time lugging home stacks and stacks of papers and binders and nine gazillion portfolios. And you're really going to be able to collect student work in one handy-dandy spot. So we are going to spend time today just quickly talking through how to get started. And I'm pointing out this collection in the activity library because on the left, you'll notice it's called getting started with CESA. And it's going to say getting started with CESA and whatever grade level you teach. So the class that I am going to show that this picture is for is first grade. But you'll notice above this tab, you can choose the grade level for it to change to. So if you're getting started with CESA in second grade, there's a collection for you. If you're getting started with CESA in third grade or pre-K, there's a collection set up for you. So that's what we're actually going to spend time walking through and showing you today. Now, what's great about what's inside that collection is it has five activities. These are the first five activities you can use right away with your students to get started with CESA. So what's great about them in this first activity, you know, this one showing here is just using the photo tool. And then an activity too, they're using the photo tool and then they're going to use the mic to record their voice. And then the third activity they're going to get to practice that again, take a photo, record their voice. And then in the fourth activity, so we're building on one tool at a time to really make sure your students are successful. So we're going to go in right now and take a closer look at what this actually looks like in a class. So I have lots of CESA classes and the one I'm actually going to jump into right now looks a little bit strange because it's one that we use for professional development for teachers. You'll see that I'm signing at the right as a teacher because it says teacher under the class name. Now instead of student names, it just says, you know, A, B, C, D instead of full student names, but of course your class when you're signed in as a teacher would say student names. So in order to get to these first five activities that I think are going to work great for your students is when you're signing as a teacher, you're just going to tap this green add button. And you are going to choose this first option, which is Browse Activity Library. And when I tap Browse Activity Library, it is taking me right into this library that has literally thousands of activities waiting for you. Now all of these activities down below here have been added by CESA ambassadors and rock star teachers from around the world using CESA. Okay, so these are all things that you can use right away with your students. Now some of you might think, but I just just show me how to get started show me the five that I should do. Now that's where you're going to find in this left right here just getting started collection. Now this one is set to kindergarten because that's what the class that I'm in right now. That's the grade level it's set to. I could change this easily and say second grade. If I change to second grade, you're going to see these are getting started with CESA activities in second grade. Same with pre-K, okay. So it's going to change based on what grade level you choose. So I'm going to go into the kindergarten collection right now. Now I know we have teachers at four or five different grade levels here today. Just know that when you go into the collection, these activities are really geared toward your students. So they're very similar in the sense that if you're teaching second grade, the first activity is still going to be showing what they know in math. It's just going to show a different picture that is more closely aligned with probably the content that you are teaching. So let's just go and tap into this first activity because I want to kind of show you some parts of it that are going to be useful as you get started with CESA. So first of all, if I tap into that activity and I want to use it with my students, I tap this heart. Tapping the heart means you're making, you like it and you're making a copy of it to go into your My Library tab. That's like your own file, your own teacher file of activities. So when I see this activity, I also notice under the picture here, I have this great section that says teacher notes. We have typed in these instructions for you to really read. If you're brand new to CESA, read these teacher notes. They are kind of your tips to give you a little bit of like why am I having my students do this? What is this activity going to help them figure out how to do in CESA? So also they can play the instructions here. The students can or you can listen to them as well. But let's show you how you share this with your students. So you're just going to tap this gigantic green share button. And then I'm going to share this with my brand new pre-K2 class. Okay, 26 students is going to be shared with, share with one class. If you're teaching multiple classes, you can go ahead and tag those and share it there. So I'm going to share it with that class. And then my students, when they go into CESA, they will just tap on the activities tab. And I'm going to go back into the class as a teacher to show you that. So they would tap this activities tab right here. And they're going to see that activity that I just shared. So it's right at the top. Okay. Now you're thinking, Angela, I work with little, little learners. How can they read all this stuff? They just need to know to touch the activity tab. And then they have these picture cues to kind of guide them and even better. Show what you learned in math. They can listen to the, the instructions as well. Now as a teacher, if you're like, I don't want your voice, Angela, telling my students what to do, I want to do that. I want to be the one talking. You can actually, in CESA, you can change that to modify it to you as well. We'll talk about that in a second. But students would just tap, they're going to see a big green ad button right here. And they would just respond. Now, again, I want to say, awesome, they did that. They did great. I'm going to go into activity too. I'm going to tap the green ad button as a teacher, browse the activity library. And this is again, we're going to go to this getting started collection. So I'm going to tap right here. My students did awesome. They totally rock taking a photo with CESA and adding it to their portfolio. Now we're going to try activity too. Okay. Click on activity too. Oh, this is perfect. We're doing writer's workshop tomorrow. My students are going to do writer's workshop, like they normally do in my classroom. But this time when they finish, I'm going to have them use CESA. They're going to take a photo of their writing. And they're going to learn to use the mic. They're going to tap that mic button and CESA and talk and tell me their story. I love this activity. I'm going to tap the heart. It is shared to my library tab. So I'm going to click there just to show you. So I just tapped the heart. If you see, there's that activity waiting for me in my library. Now again, to share it with my students, I can tap this activity, tap share, tap it to my brand new student, my brand new class. And they have it. Okay. I'm going to go back to my class, my CESA class. And again, there's the activity waiting for my students in the activities tab. So if I go to the green add button as a teacher, you're probably pros at this already browse activity library. We're going into getting started with CESA and kindergarten. And I can go to activity three. Now, I'm not going to go through each one of these activities because you get the idea, right? You're going to go through these five activities with your students so they can independently use CESA and get rocking and rolling. But I want to show you what I just talked about. If you want to modify one of these activities. So if I say, I want to do this, get to know you activity, right? My little friends are going to be drawing a self portrait. Maybe you're teaching second grade and they're still drawing a self portrait because they're doing something with goals setting. Okay. But you want to change this. So I'm going to first tap the heart to save it to my library. Now that has taken a copy from the CESA library. And now what I'm going to do is I'm going to open this activity. And at the bottom right, I see these three dots. I'm going to tap there and I'm actually going to copy and edit this activity. Okay. So I'm going to tap the X right here. Because I know I have CESA copy in my library tab, but I actually want to change something here. So now I get to, I can edit and change all of this. Okay. Maybe I don't want to say activity three. Maybe I want to take that out. I'm going to delete it. Maybe I want my own voice recording. So I'm going to tap the X right here. I'm going to delete that recording and I'm going to add my own voice instructions. So my students here, my voice giving the directions. Okay. I could change the image, but I would say that's not the case here. Okay. So I'm going to tap save. When I'm done, I'm just going to tap save. If I've modified it however I want. And now you'll see, ah, it says Angela Cesar. Okay. That's me. I've modified this activity. If I wanted to, and I can share it with my students. Okay. So if I go back to the CESA activity library. Again. All of these first five activities are right here waiting for you. So my recommendation is if you are brand new to CESA with your students, this is a great place to start. going to be the things to start with to show them step by step one by one how to get started with CESAW in your classroom. So I also want to point out a couple things. If I go to the CESAW activity library there's a lot of things we didn't talk about here today. There are back-to-school favorites for your grade level. So maybe let's go to second grade. Okay back to schools favorites in second grade. So if I tap on that whoa there's all sorts of activities I could look at if you find something you really love use it share it they would love you know that's why this is here our community really wants to support you getting started maybe you are teaching pre-k okay so I'm changing to pre-k and you're thinking oh my gosh I only have three iPads click on activities for shared devices maybe you want to explore that a little bit later in the year okay if you're if you've already mastered if your students have whipped through these activities here maybe you want to check those out you can also browse by different subjects you can type in here and search different activities but you can go ahead and tap hearts and all of any any and all activities that you want to save and then share with your own students so we went just really quickly here today through your first five activities with CSA so we're gonna stop in just a moment but I want to let you know that there is a survey that's gonna pop up after this webinar and we would love to have your feedback let us know what we can do better let us know what you want to see the next time you come to a webinar make sure just to take 30 seconds and fill that out it really really helps us out and as always make sure you connect with our community we have the most amazing teacher community I feel like on the planet it would see saw so make sure you connect and ask questions and of course you found this webinar probably at web.cisa.me backslash pds it's a great place to go if you want to join us again for live webinars and if you missed webinars we have all of them on our YouTube channel so check that out as well and if you don't know about our website help.cisa.me and you are brand new to CSA you got to get there there's all sorts of goodies there all sorts of fun printables that you can use in your classroom as you're getting started so check that out as well