 Hello, I'm Tina Souser and welcome to this week's Wednesday webinar. This is the third video in a series on CESA and today we're going to get into the meat and potatoes of the tool itself and talk about how you can use some of those tools with your students in your classroom. So I am logged into my CESA account and I just want to talk a little bit before we get into the tools for CESA about a little of this information over here. When you have new items come into your class, you will get notifications and there'll be a little red one or two how many notifications you have for the day on that sign and then you can come in here and you can check through your notifications and read through each one. Back here you can add an item directly from this screen. You could click here to go back to your feed view, which is the original view that comes up. The calendar view is kind of nice as well because in the calendar view it will show you all the posts and so I'm going to go back to August because that's when I made the most posts. So if you look down here on August 30th and 31st, on August 30th there's one item on the 31st. There's six. So I'm going to click on the 31st and when you do that those items show up on everything that was posted for that day and underneath each item it shows you what student posted what. So that's always a nice view to to see as a teacher if you go back to that calendar view. So I'm going to go back here and I'm going to go to the class feed and then we're going to start talking about some of the tools here in CSAH. Okay let's start looking at some of the tools in CSAH that are both accessible to the teacher and to the students as they join the class and then we're going to talk about how those tools can be applied to your CSAH account into your classroom. So there's two ways as the teacher that I could go and add an article in here. Remember earlier we went back here and we said add an item but a student or a teacher has the option over here in this green plus. So when I click on that green plus I get six different options of items that I can add into CSAH. This is also what shows up on the student account exactly. So I'm going to select the first one. I'm going to select the photo. When you first select the photo and your microphones you just allow that screen where I can take a photo. So I'm going to and if I like it I can leave it if I want to retake it. That was an awful folder so I'm going to retake it and I just retake the picture and then when I'm ready to use that picture I can click this green check mark. This green check mark is important in each one of those features because in order to apply something to the article you have to click the green check mark to move to the next step. So I'm going to click the green check mark because I want to use this picture. So when I do that I get these options down here at the bottom and this looks exactly the same for your students as it does for the teacher. I could rotate the picture. I think I look better upside down. I could add audio to the picture and this is a really cool feature. So when I click on audio it's going to give me the option. Now it's going to ask you probably again to allow the microphone for the first time but it's going to give me the option to record my voice over top of this picture. So I'm going to click record and hello my name is Tina. Thank you for watching Seesaw 3. As you saw there is a screen that comes up at the bottom that shows you the recording time. Now once you do that it's going to allow you to listen to your recording. Now if you want to use that you can click again on the green check mark or you can rerecord. I'm going to click on the green check mark to go to the next one. And once I do that as you can see it has now applied that audio to my picture and so they're tied together. Now the next option in there is drawing. So when I click on the drawing I get some more features down here at the bottom. I can click on different pen size. I have a pencil eraser. I can type a label in there. I can erase all by one click and I can choose different colors for my pencil. So I'm just going to draw a nice little hat on me here. Cover up my messy hair. So again if I like my drawing I will click the green check mark but I can also get down here. I can erase or I could add a label right from here if I chose to but I'm going to click that green check and now as you can see my drawing is added. Then I get the option to label. So I can add a label to my picture and once I add that label I can then drag it resize it whatever I want to do and I believe I can change the color of the text this way. I could change the style of the text box just about anything I want to do there and I can also from here I can label and change size pattern. All these options are available to you to change so I could change the background color if I choose any of those options. So once I have it the way that I want to I click the green check and then it's going to apply that. Now one other thing so right now I have an audio tied to that picture. I have a drawing and I have a label. I can also add a caption. Okay and when I'm done typing I click the green check mark again and as you can see that caption comes up underneath the picture. So when I have that all done I can then click on this green check and then it's going to ask me who do I want to apply this to. Now since I'm in the teacher's account I get the choice to apply it to everyone. If I apply it to everybody's folder that will go not only to the students but to the parents and so everyone will see it in there. So you got to be careful with using names and things like that when you share with everybody. But for now I'm just going to apply it to this student and so I'm going to select that student and again I'm going to go back to this green check and then because I have folder set up it's going to ask me where do I what folder do I want to put that in and I'm going to click that and again the green check mark. Now because I am in the teacher's account and signed in as the teacher that will automatically show up in the feed. If I was in a student account and I did the same thing the teacher before that would show up in the feed the teacher would come back here and see the notification there'd be a little red one here that would show up and then the teacher has to go and accept that before it's ever posted on the feed or even to that student's account. So the teacher can accept or deny that but again it posted it right away because I'm actually signed in as the teacher. Now let's talk about this a little bit because what are the implications for this photo in your class this photo option in your classroom. One of the coolest ways that I've seen it used is a teacher an art teacher was using it where the students would take a photo of their artwork and then they would record their voice telling about the media of their artwork and and the process that they went through to create that piece of artwork. This is a great way to involve two-dimensional projects even to post test test grades if you've rated them on pencil paper and you want the parents to see them right away for a student you could add a photo of the test. It's also a great way to share events that are going on in your classroom special events that you have say if you do a distance learning connection with something you could take a photo of the kids watching the distance learning and write up or record your voice telling about it. Photo is a great tool because you have all those other options once you load that photo in there and again you can draw over top and so you could be labeling things you could post a picture say for instance if you're studying the parts of a plant you could post a picture of the plant of a plant and then have your students label the parts of the plant that's a great way to use it as well and then another way to use photos is actually with progressive projects so if you have a project that is a step-by-step project the students can take a photo of each step of the way and then record their voice telling about the steps that they went through to get to the product. Okay so and of course there's many many more implications for the photo tool there but we're going to go ahead and go to the next one and the next option is video. Now I didn't mention in the photo tool but because I'm working from a laptop I only have the one-way photo on an iPad I could actually flip that camera around and so for instance in a kindergarten class I could ask the students to go take a picture of different things that have different shapes go find a square go find a circle go find the diamonds and things like that and they could post those pictures within the photos app because they could switch that camera around to take facing the other direction. Now back to the video when I click on video actually get two options I could select or drop a file in that's already on my computer so I could go out and find a video that I already have or I could actually record my own video right here in seesaw and it's going to ask again for access to your camera and microphone you just allow and once you do that then again you have the photo or recording capabilities come up with again I'm using my webcam in my laptop but if I was on an iPad I could do the switch around where I could record facing the other direction and then to start recording I just click in here and it counts down hello this is seesaw three thank you for watching and then I click finish once I finish that recording it's going to take a moment to load the recording and once it's finished I am then allowed to review the recording depending on how fast your internet is there we go and then I can preview that video and then again I get the options I can record again I can say okay I want to add this video and it's not the best video but I'm going to go ahead and say add you would be surprised at how selective your kids are so when you do something like this I would limit them to maybe one or two takes because they are very critical of themselves and so they may end up rerecording way too many times so just be aware of that now once I accept that video I can then go in and add a caption if I like that caption I can click the check mark I don't have to add that caption if I don't want to but I do have the option and so then I'm ready to post it and I click the check mark again and then I'm going to go back again if I want to post it to everyone so all the parents see all the students see if I'm in a student account I do not have that option but then I say who I want to post it to click the green check where I want it to go if you have folder set up and then it's going to put it again because I'm in the teacher account it's going to put it right in my feed if I was a student it would ask for permission to post it first so how can you use the video feed in your classroom I absolutely love this tool because this can really get your students involved for instance you could have your students create a how-to video if you're learning something and your student you have a student that you think really has the concept or ones that maybe don't then you ask them to record themselves telling how to do something and then you can share it with the other class so they can use those videos too to learn you could use them in centers you could also choose a student of the day and ask them to tell the parents about the objectives that you're or learning goals that you're learning for the day you could also use it as a fluency tool so your students could read into the video or even the recording feature and then they can go back in and had a caption with their name but they could also then go and kind of critique themselves on how they did with fluency and then I would revisit that same reading again after a few months and have the students critique themselves again so the video tool is actually a very powerful tool and again teachers can use that to share things out that are happening in the classroom with parents but again if you post to everyone you just have to be aware that you shouldn't use first and last names of your students in any identifying factors because you're posting it to every parent and every student okay so let's keep going on with the tools I'm going to go back to the plus sign the next option you have is the drawing feature when you click on the drawing option you get the one that kind of came up over the picture top of the picture but you get a full drawing palette and so one one way that you saw this in a previous video is my daughter I told her to write the letter and so we'll just write the letter a so I asked her to write the letter and then I asked her to draw something that had that started with the letter a and so she used the drawing tool to do this and again you have all these drawing features I'm trying to use a mouse so my drawing is not the best I apologize but you have all these drawing tools then that they can use and and the drawing feature works really well on the iPad because you can use your finger to do the drawing but basically then they could draw and then once they're finished they click with a drawing they click on the check and then so that's telling them that they want to use the drawing and then again you have all these tools at the bottom so this is where I had my daughter record the letter the sound and what her picture was a says ah a is for apple and then it applies that recording and again if I want to apply that to picture I click the check mark and then I get all these options back and so it might be a good idea if you go ahead and label the picture with the name and as you can see each time you select a tool you get different options that pop up down at the bottom so when I'm ready to use that again like that and then say that I want to post it and I'm going to just post it to that student again and that would be part of a reading folder so then I click the green check mark and then it goes in so what are the other implications for drawings there's lots of things you could do with drawings again for instance if you're focusing on letters or numbers or shapes um if you're studying parts of a plant if anything like that the kids can go in there and draw the the feature is a little bit easier to use on the ipad then it would be a laptop or a chrome book because of the drawing the ability to draw with your finger um but there is lots of implications that you could do with the drawing tool and all those pieces that come up with it so let's go back here and we'll go down to the bottom row this option will allow you to upload a file and if you notice it will only allow you to upload these types of files so basically any pictures or something that is a pdf if you try to load something else it looks like it's going to go um but it doesn't so let me find something here those are all pds one on my desktop um oh here we go here's a powerpoint so if I try to load a powerpoint it's going to say that type is not supported um but if I go back and I upload an image it will allow me to do that and then what I have is the option to do all of these with that image so I could add audio to my picture I could draw over top of my picture I could label it add a caption or rotate the picture and so again this is where kids could take um if they have a whole bunch of pictures that they've already taken they could go in and upload them and put these captions back on um say for instance if you're working on that shape project so go find these different shapes once the kids could go take all the pictures and then they could upload each one and label each picture and so then they go through the same process of applying it to a student a folder um basically whatever they want to do but that's how you can upload a file from your computer um but again you're limited to pictures and pdfs I can show you let's take a look at what a pdf would look like here so this might be something where um you maybe have a pdf of your spelling words for the week that you want to post in there um you could save them as a pdf and upload them into csa and then both your parents and your students have it um especially if you post to everyone if you post to everyone that it'll go out or if you have a newsletter this is a great way to do um a newsletter but the way that they would parents would need to get into it is they would actually have to click on it and then um they could scroll through the pages to see the rest of the pdf and this is a pretty big one um but again if you did if you saved your spelling test or something like that as a pdf um that's how that would come up for them um and again it's a great way to do newsletters or any other communication that you might do with your parents throughout the week this I really like this tool as well because um this is where I like to post the objectives for the day or the things that we would work down for the day um in an earlier video I mentioned that my preschool daughter whenever she comes home always ask her how her day was and what she learned for the day and she'll just always tell me she forgot well as a teacher each day I could come in here and post what we learned for the day and what we focused on for the day so for example something short and simple like that um you could make it even longer if you choose but basically when you add a note you just type in a short note click on the this you could add audio to that note you could add text to that note um when you click text it just means you're going to go back and add an additional text you could record your voice reading it today we learned about the letter s and the number 11 um and when you record your voice thing it you could add more details like um the letter s stands such as sun or um sammy and examples like that when you record your voice so I'm going to go ahead and post that and again if that's something that you're going to post for parents you're going to want to select that it goes to everyone and that will go to students and parents of the students and it will be posted in the feed for everyone to see um and that is the note option and of course there's lots of different options you could do with a note uh you could even do vocabulary words and and spelling words here in a note feed if you choose if you did spelling words it'd be great for you to add the audio with that as well so the students can hear the sounds and hear the words as you say them and then last excuse me last but not least is the link option so let's say you were studying something about um we'll just go world war two and there was a really great website or video um actually if you want to add the video you go back to the video tool but let's say you come to a really good website that you want parents to see um because maybe the kids are asked to study it for the day so all you do is you copy that url you go back into link and you paste that url into seesaw and then it actually comes up with a picture and again you have the option to record your voice over top if you record your voice you could give the assignment right here and you could say um students are asked to read this article and summarize in four paragraphs what it's about if you record your audio on that or you can add a caption if i add a caption summary and i click the check mark so then again if i record my audio which would be part of the assignment students are asked to read this article and then in a short paragraph either three to six sentences long to summarize what the paragraph is about now i have just posted an assignment for the parents to see and again if you're you're wanting this for all students you're going to do the green check mark and you're going to select everyone and then you're going to post that and i might even have a folder here that would say social studies or um that would say assignments or however you create your folder let's let's create one that just says social studies so it makes sense and so you can see the folders and we'll just choose a different color and then i have that full folder in there and that's where i'm going to put that assignment and then it's going to post that assignment to everybody but it's going to tie it to that social studies folder here um again there are lots of implications for that um just depends on how you use links and websites in your classroom a great way to put links in there too is if you have a school website that you want to share out with your parents or if you have created a site of your own that you want to share it with parents that's a great way to do it if you work a lot in google drive or google docs and you want to share some of those details with your parents that's another way to include those items into sisa um even if the if the students work in classroom and they create those assignments you can still share those assignments via the link and the link tool in sisa and that will still go to their parents now sisa obviously is a wonderful tool um and it's a great parent communication tool but you could also use all of these articles if you go back to the students themselves you could use this during parent teacher conferences so if i go to the student right here let's say that that parent's coming in for the day and i go through and i click on that student i can go through every assignment that was posted in there and talk about each one of those um and the importance of each assignment and we could talk about how their students are doing because it would be progressive so the ones down here at the bottom for example um when i had my daughter read these i would probably go through and do that again right before parent teacher conferences read that same one and then compare how much they have improved including the fluency ones would be great um but these are just great discussion points for parents during parent during parent teacher conferences and because you've already shared that with parents you can have a richer um collaborative instruction uh communication but you could also invite the students to talk about their works in person during those parent teacher conferences from their profile feed so um and basically that's all i have for this version of sisa three again i love this tool as a teacher i love this tool as a parent and i love this tool as a tech person um the tech side of it i love the idea that it is uh secure and basically your student feed goes only to their parents um i love it from the parent side because i love the communication of the tool i could see instantly what's going on in the classroom i could comment back and forth um to my students like if i post something on on one of their assignments say i could say way to go this was awesome um if if i as a parent and posting to my students work they're going to see that and and it drives students to to create and do their best especially when they know that this is going to be posted but it you can also pull in um other students to comment and and make those comments and again those comments have to be okay by the teacher before they come in so you could kind of filter through the negative the inappropriate ones if you needed to but the discussion should take place prior to the use of sisa that the purpose of it is to uplift each other and and to have positive feedback now i love this from the teacher perspective because it is so easy to use and you actually only need one device in your classroom you could do this from one ipad or one uh web connected tool in your classroom um that would just be a situation where your students would probably have to rotate within a center to upload their artifacts into sisa but the best way probably to start with sisa is to get your parents connected and to start um intriguing those parents with feeds that you give them um from the teacher perspective and then slowly as you get comfortable start pulling your students in to do the work and to do the posting themselves so thanks for watching i hope you enjoyed this