 Thank you for stopping by today and learning about this activity interactive PD. We are here to support you as tech integrationist. I'm Angela and if you've never joined one of our webinars before just keep in mind Do you are going to get these slides emailed to you because you registered? So keep that in mind Here's the plan for today We're gonna give some brief introductions and talk a little bit about the background of the presenters and what school they school They are working in so you kind of have an idea of how that might compare with where you are at Then we're gonna go into details about a PD scavenger hunt related to activities and also Create and share activities PD. So I have to tell you a little backstory here Originally when I was planning this session I had reached out to and one of the presenters and thought you should come and share what is such a great interactive Session that you did I think other tech integrationists would love to hear about it And then she said well actually Heather did the first part So you're actually gonna get a double dose here two amazing activity PDs that you can take and implement with your teachers And then we're gonna of course have time for questions and next step So I encourage you any time they are presenting if you have questions Go ahead and tap them type them into the question box And I will be fielding those until we actually can ask them when they get done presenting So if we go to the next slide again, I've already mentioned my name, but I'm Angela I lead the community team here at CISA. I was a kindergarten teacher for 15 years with five iPads in my classroom So we definitely were shared devices and you can reach out to me on Twitter at mrs. Gadki And I am so excited to actually have two amazing at tech integrationists here with me today I'm gonna let them actually speak for themselves, but I'm gonna welcome Anne and Heather and take it away ladies Hi there. We're very excited to do this today to to meet with y'all and talk about our experience with Teaching teachers about activities and so I'm Anne Hargrove and I've taught 11 years in Guatemala and in Texas and I am currently an instructional technology specialist for Northeast Independent School District Here in San Antonio, Texas And you can your Twitter. Oh, and here's my twi my Twitter below Follow follow us Okay, so I'm Heather I work with and we're both in the same school district and I was elementary school teacher for about 10 years and then became an instructional technology specialist and both Anne and I Work with elementary schools. We have for each so We get lots of ideas for see saw through that but my Twitter is essay techie teacher. So follow me and I'll follow you and So we wanted to start off with a little bit of background just so you kind of know where we're coming from So we do have a fairly large school district. We actually have 66 campuses We do have magnet schools. So just because it's actual 66 campuses. We do have more schools for example, we have a fine arts magnet school we have a robotics kind of Datum magnet school. So but we have 46 elementary that we actually work with and like Heather said We each have four. I think we have 20 it's is total for 21. I think 21 it's is instructional technology specialists for our district and For see software schools we are in the first year of implementation with all of our elementary schools and we also have four middle schools that have Have jumped on board with us. So we're really excited to get to use all those extra cool features And then another thing to tell you about is we are a shared device district. So every campus has kind of roughly Roughly they have iPads Chromebooks laptops Smart boards, but Yeah, every class is different. Yeah, we're kind of working with everything some people have One iPad and they their whole grade level shares Chromebook cart other people have eight iPads each I mean, we're so we just we try to do a PD that kind of incorporates all of that and So the other thing just to tell you where we are our journey with seesaw It kind of started up. How when did it start? It kind of started with Heather Miller here Yeah for our district because I love seesaw and she became Seesaw ambassador did and then everybody wanted to do is so we started with a pilot campus I got I got one of my elementary schools hidden for us to pilot seesaw for schools for one year and the principal really loved the Communication between the parents the teachers were just soaring with it. I mean you we have still those few that are You know putting it on their back burner, but we're getting them But because so many of those teachers really enjoyed it and the principal did and they were ready for it to be their next year We were able to purchase it as a whole district for all of our elementary schools Which has been wonderful and because of that we have a lot of middle school teachers principals one in particular who's So daughter-in-law and her the grandkids are all in the schools and she sees seesaw from that perspective and she's Thinking why can't we have it in middle school? Let's do it. So Yeah, so we're getting lots of principals on board and Teachers on board so it's been a great ride so far and I'd say the last year So we've been giving professional development to teachers for seesaw, but it was more of Here's your class. Here's how you set up a class Here's how you put things in the journal And so we did a lot of those classes and then finally this year since we got it as a district We decided we need to do some more classes, but this time let's be specific on the new feature of activities So that's where we're gonna start today with part one of teaching activities to teachers And and a lot of our PDs that we tried to I guess implement teach We want to kind of do that flip training We're I don't know about you guys out there But for our trainings when we just stand in front of a crowd and talk to them It doesn't seem as beneficial. So that's why we kind of created this interactive part. So this the goal of this first PD was experience was really just this hands-on approach for them to To To kind of have the teachers interact with seesaw as a student. So they were I Had them in grade levels, but if it was just a PD that anybody came to We kind of just tried to group them in similar grade levels So maybe you know four and five and two and three and kindergarten first Because this we were just doing for elementary for this one, but so anyway, we grouped them up We signed them into seesaw as a student and we just pretty much kind of gave them an overview and then just let them go so We're gonna go ahead and kind of walk through the different parts of this scavenger hunt and kind of give some tips and tricks to What we're doing. So the first thing that I Did was create a seesaw class and it says humor super heroes because I made one a specific for the campuses I did when we just did it which you'll see here in a minute when we dive in When we did it more for district PD. We just named it seesaw super heroes. So it's kind of whatever you want to name it And we made a student for each kid So first name is fifth the last name grade first name for you know, so on and so forth So that way when they logged in as a student they were in as that grade level and so we Made sure to share all the activities before they got in there. So when we started the class, we just said, okay, go to the activities Here's kind of an overview and here's what you're going to do and we I Guess when I was when I was trying to plan out this PD that my mindset was What are the different components of seesaw that I want to share with everybody? and kind of showcase to them so There's six different activities and I know there's only five pictured right there, but you'll see them on the next page Okay, there's that one. So then we have avoiding kryptonite, which is where teachers use the drawing tool to Draw and explain like the different things and so as I'm explaining this We're gonna go out of it real quick and show you kind of examples of what teachers did So Ann's gonna get there we go. Okay. Whoo. I'm sorry if I just made you real dizzy So here is kryptonite one of the things about the activity as well is that I wanted to Kind of pull in all the different tools when they did the activity. So this one's drawing and so they just drew different Tools that would help them avoid the kryptonite of you know stress as a teacher so you can see different Things on here. We have candy and flowers and sunshine and All that type of thing another one is oh, that's a Another one is the superpower one and this was really to showcase how the video feature works on seesaw So I wanted to make sure that thing it puts on there, you know, press the pause button in between each person And a lot of them don't read that part just as students don't read all the instructions So we had some fans so you have some that just passed the camera around you have some that recorded Vertical instead of horizontal. So this was a really great way When we gathered all together at the end is to show them Okay, here are some tips and tricks when your kids are doing photo or videos is to pause them So they don't have the shaky camera to do the horizontal video so that you don't have the black Edges So that's just the video one the superpower This one is they are using the note feature and they're just making an acrostic for their team name So this one is like incredible credible terrific teacher because I do that those very Challenging there, but yeah, they so they just made an acrostic for their team and you'll see on on this one. We're actually using one of my classrooms and My students were numbered. I know that Heather said, you know, she had a bike grade level bit You know take this and run with it how you want to you know, we're just giving suggestions But that's why you see mine is not written by great. Oh, yeah, because you you'll see like in her journal She has all numbers here instead and that's the thing is like we kind of just shared it with our team And then when we did it per campus, we kind of just changed it and made it our own This was a picture perfect Activity where they had a photo wall and I just Got some photo props and had a superhero background. You do not have to do that As far as like super fancy photo wall But it but they loved it and it was so fun and You can find really any photo wall if you want but like the number five So they have this superhero background they and then on top of it. That's where they use the label tool so you're teaching them how to do that as well and they use the label tool to Put their team name on there Which is lots of fun The next one is extraordinary Extraordinary communication and this is really trying to get them in as a parent so they could see so when they Get in there. They have an announcement that says I Would go up Like respond to this message with a quick video and what do you think I put in there? You know, what does parent communication mean to you? So it's really, you know, whatever question you think that The training it would be most beneficial But that way when we gathered all back at the end we were able to show them Oh look, we sent you a message, but we could have sent it in Spanish We could have sent it to just one parent instead of everybody So here is the why is the parent communication important and then they posted it on here and That's just really for them to see the parent side of it And for them to see how easy it is for the parents to communicate back and forth with them and then The other one I have on here, which is not on this one So I'll go back to the slideshow real quick is the lost superheroes and so what I did was I printed off a superhero and a Batman and We have that I'll keep talking. Oh, I think we have another one Okay, they I printed off a superhero and a Batman and I hid them around the school and then I used a map of the school as the template and so they were Able to go and find depending on what the clues were they found. Oh, there it is Where it was so like for instance, this one says Superman and his staff work hard to guide you to the right room So like the staff room or the lounge or whatever and then work room Batman has the key to the board so he can catch the mouse does that compute so the computer lab And then when they go in there if you'll You'll be able to see they have a map and so on the map. They were supposed to mark where they found Superman and where they found Batman and This showed them as you can see is the template part So when we go back and we talk at the end we can say okay when you guys were doing that That's because you're in the template version and we put something in there for you to click on So those are the six activities And so for the neck on the next slide it was it shows you like the things that we did to kind of get him set up The I linked the Batman and the Superman picture that I used I just used pixabay for all these little superhero Images and I really get lots of pictures from pixabay But all the pictures that are in the activities currently are from that website. So That's that's really all that I had printed off because everything else was digital and they Did everything in seesaw and the map the only thing is a map, right? Oh, yeah, you gotta take you got to take a picture of the map, right? But and on one of the PD's I did like you'll see it in the tweet. That's on the next slide I had them do a oh, it didn't update, but that's okay. I did a puzzle that They did at the end so after they finished all the activities they had to come to me. Holy smokes. That's big Technical difficulties. Sorry Don't worry. We are we are technology people So back to normal yeah, but in one of the tweets on there it shows you where they're doing the puzzle Which is actually the other one, but oh So let me go find it There we go There you go So they're doing this QR code puzzle So they put the puzzle together and they scan the QR code and it gave them like a riddle for them to use and I gave prizes at The end so that was my other thing is not only were we tweeting about it We encourage teachers to tweet with their team, but we also had prizes and it's like super simple prizes you could do the seesaw shirt, but We just you know gave like post-it notes or pencils because they were excited to win anything So that's what I would definitely say to you do for that. So because of that training I Wanted to add one note. Oh, please. I don't know. Yeah, so I attached as well. You'll see right here. This is just a Google doc that is their notes What Heather just said So if you want because I said a lot Because well, you know what she did and it was kind of it was a good idea that she actually Put this together did it for her campus and then we're like, hey Let's do this for all the district and do cluster training. So for each high school all the schools attached to it and She actually had us do the activity So we really felt ownership of it because we actually took it ourselves and then When she was telling us all about it, that's why I want to go back one slide Right here if you click on this then that does link and we are gonna give you I forgot to mention We have a link to this presentation. It's on the last slide So you're gonna get this whole presentation. Okay, but if you click on this then you get the notes that I was saying That are just helpful about each one about no more than four people per group One person's gonna be on their laptop as a as the parent The materials you need and again, these are just notes. These are fans notes. So Well, and that's the thing is we kind of Just kind of made it our own depending on what the campuses So some of my campuses had more than four teachers But I really wanted them to work as a grade level and talk because some teachers have been doing seesaw before and some teachers Hadn't and I wanted them to be able to share ideas why they were working So we put four on there, but if you want to put more that's fine It does work with more than four but four is a good number as far as making sure everybody's involved Well, I like the better chance to give door Make sure you have door prizes or food and they will come they will come. Yes chocolate on the table after school. Yes, okay So now Can we talked about that? So now this is part two of our seesaw activities trainings for the district again, what we did is have every cluster every Campus participate first as a student. So they understood how activities worked then the second thing we did was put together a training that allows the teachers to create activities and really dive into activities and so this part is for the teachers on their computer and The goals of it were to you know explore I'm interjecting for just a moment because before we go into the second portion I just want to recap quickly and ask just So just so everyone kind of gets this bigger framework of how you approached it you first started Introducing the activity feature to teachers in this very interactive PD session where they were doing this scavenger hunt that Heather just described and Heather How much time did you a lot for that that session? It was an hour and a half Okay We tried to squeeze it in in an hour But a lot of the teachers don't get finished with all the activity So if you do an hour and a half it gives them time to finish the activities and then kind of like a reflection time at the end So perfect and then after they have had this time to literally explore as a student Doing activities. They're racing around finding all of these different parts that go to the scavenger hunt What when as we go and talk about this second PD, how do you how would you guys describe the How much time did they have in between these sessions? Were they you know a couple months later? Or what what would you say as we as we go into the second part here? I would say it was probably a couple months later and that's just because we Like I did this first session with my campuses like Dan said before school started and then After school started, you know, I'm sharing with my team and then I did that training for the team And often so they all went and did that first training with their campuses in like September. Yeah Then we came back and we said hey, we got to do something more Again like this and so what we did is we kind of broke it into two different ones We have a ditch the binder one and this activities one that ends about to talk about and so we just kind of created a whole PD madness map of Things so we said, okay. Here are multiple campuses at multiple Or like yeah phases in different times and days So you pick where you're at and go and and we kind of did those in late October November, yeah, we can we can share but the we'll put that on one of the slides like what our map looked like Because yeah, no, that's great. I think it just gives people context here and as you've heard to talk about The second PD session that you did related to activities after they've had this experience as a student They've tried it out. They're working in their classroom with seesaw on a regular basis and then here we go They come to the second PD. So let's learn about this one Okay, right. So as you can see what we did basically was Explore that that activities of the libraries and then we Customize or created them for our students and then at the end we shared those activities with each other and As you can see it basically was whole group modeling and then we'd let them be independent and then Kind of go back and do one of another one of the tasks that I'm about to show you So tips for preparing Okay, let me show you this one. Okay, so this Okay, the thought process behind this presentation of Activities to the teachers it was It's not everybody's in the same place When it comes to making activities and so what we wanted to do was kind of create a Session that allowed them to if someone needed to move farther along or faster Or if some people needed more one-on-one support because a lot of times we have teachers like the basis of coming to this Presentation was that they had already done part one that they already had logged in to seesaw. They already have a class They're already doing things in the journals and they know what activities are But I'm sure all of you here have had the time where you're you're presenting Activities, but then you always have somebody that's like what seesaw So we have to be ready for all of that so we found the best way to do that was giving them the opportunity to go at their own pace and So that's where we came up with this. So This is the this is the only slide that I print out when doing this Presentation if we print this out that way at the top over here You see the link to the task that the teachers are gonna be doing and that way the teachers can go ahead and log Into their computers and they have a digital copy of all of this and it walks them through each step So we had them sign in as teachers and then we had them get together with their grade level because remember this is coming from a Bunch of different schools So we had tried to have all the kinders sit by each other first grade second grades So that they could kind of work together and collaborate and you can see that the first we kind of pasted out We had eight different activities Okay, and the first one was kind of whole groups because we wanted them to later Add folders or skills to their activities, but to do that you have to first have folders And so together we created folders and I'll go to Let me see. Oh I'm sorry. Let me backtrack a little me This part is actually the presentation for the second one so you can see it We put this slide in here so that you can actually take these and put yourself on this slide and Then before I get into the activities We put this family connection at the beginning because we find the magic is really when we have Families attached to these seashell classes. We love that. It's a great portfolio for the students But it's really those connections with parents and family that makes this so meaningful and motivating for the kids And so we start off all of our PDs with Discussing the family feature. So we just have them talk as a group Do you use it? Do you not use it? Why do you use it? Why do you not use it? And then we have a person share out from each table to hear if they're connecting and why they're connecting and the fun experiences that they have with it and Then that's where We talked first about the activities why teachers use the activities and this is a video We're not going to show it but if any of you have seen step brothers It's really funny and it talks about activities and they say the word activities about 20 times so it's just a funny little video to get the group started and in a happy place and Then that's what we show them this task card that has all of the tasks on it And then it's simply they just again right here. It says whole group so you know that you're gonna do this with everybody and We just put in the middle of the steps So we have the icons we have the steps are gonna do and then an overview So this kind of tells here. This is what this task is about and then if you need help with folders or How to do them and you don't remember after we've taught it to y'all, you know to the teachers then we link the videos and the I guess the websites from seesaw and that show how to do those steps and So each task basically looks the same so The next one is starting out with exploring the seesaw activity library And I like doing this because we could start off by just having the teachers Make an activity like step one. Here's how you put the title step two But I like them to go to the seesaw activity library because then they see what a good activity looks like and You know, they have a lot of they have a likes right like it'll say a certain number of likes And so we try to go to those as good examples So they see kind of how it's laid out how it has icons the shortcut icons instead of all the writing that the I guess that it has Voice instructions, right, you know everything that just makes it a good Activity and so from there we let them pick some and then we have them put it into their my library by by liking it well, and that's one thing that we Whether it's in a PD or not. That's kind of where we just in general try to start with teachers is just Go browse the activity library and then you know They're not them don't notice that they have a school library to save it into as well not just their library So just starting it so like in and said so that they can see others other activities and what people what you can do in them and not just a picture or a You know simple things And then then that's where we just kind of model this part like task three and four We kind of just show them how to do that We demonstrate it and then we leave them on their own to start doing these different things Different tasks and that way it frees us up to walk around and answer those questions like a teacher How do I get a class? You know, it's all kinds of questions It's not just about activities which we're teaching which we understand But so that way it frees us up and so they're able to continue on and we're not slowing down to try to answer each person's question Of course sometimes somebody in the group will have a valid or an excellent question that will say to everybody afterwards, you know when we come back together, but we just found it's more successful when you do it like this and So then we come back together and we do I think that's where we did To organize the work and put the skills on it Sharing the activities we told them all the different ways to do it that that you can get the link and teachers can put it in the lesson plans We tell them all the different ways to share them with the classes with the students and with teachers and then we showed them obviously the scheduling and activity which they really love and Then the last slide here is This was our bonus task a lot of people didn't get this far But what it is is basically take your curriculum that your district has so you know all of our departments have a ton of resources and so what we did is just take it so it's like this one for example was a PowerPoint that we have For kinder learning about objects in the sky. Well instead of just showing it on a PowerPoint Let's make it an activity. So we showed them how to see saw a fi our curriculum and Then after that after everybody had time working again, this was an hour and a half training and It not everybody finished every task, you know, it could be broken up into a part two and three I guess after our part one, but Afterwards we came back together so people could show what they created And then after that we always tell them That seesaw has an excellent help center and if you have any questions, of course I can always ask us the ITS's but that there are great resources that y'all have with easy instructions and we told them about your PD's and Then also the seesaw communities and so a lot of people a lot of our teachers have Facebook And so they've joined their different groups to learn more about Different things activities for their specific grade level and I think that was basically it Yeah, so I don't know if you guys caught that but when Anne was walking through that It's literally you guys can copy those slides that she just went through and just put them in your own slideshow And use them for that PD for mine the first one that we talked about it's all in seesaw All the activities are in there. So I didn't really present anything except I showed the screen of the what they did at the end But hers you have those different slideshows. You can walk through the different task cards And here is the presentation link that we said to this one that we just did that had part one and two together And then on that task card I had right here This is the other part that you'll see and you'll get this access to this It was on this slide right here But I when you do it yourself you'll get this and then you want to put your own link in there So that's why I didn't keep the link in but we also put some teacher notes down here So hopefully it'll help with not teacher notes, but presenter notes So some notes these notes are kind of for you when you're presenting it to your teachers Okay, so yeah, are there any questions Angel on the chat But I'm just gonna summarize a little bit so In a session to again you probably had it sounds like you had about 90 minutes And this was again a face-to-face session But I think a lot of what you've even shared with the tax cards could be something that you even segmented to smaller chunks even or Or share some other way with teachers as well But I like the idea of you are really intentional about trying to meet teachers where they were so you had a had a way to do some things whole group and model and then You had these individual Basically cards that they could follow and maybe you want to go back to just that image So they kind of get that first image where you kind of have it all on one page So they can see the visual of the different tasks that they're going to be going through And get an idea of what's whole group versus what's independent with kind of the teachers at their table as well And I think I think what's also exciting is that some of these things are Are very simple in the sense of like let's learn how to do this and it's going to happen very very quickly and other things You know they could go on and on they could be when they're customizing activity Maybe they're customizing five activities for those that are already ready for that So I like I like that flexibility that you have built in here And I just I love that everyone that's watching and attending is going to benefit from all of all of your amazing hard work And we can help each other Really create situations where we're meeting teachers where they're at but also hopefully inspiring them and supporting them as they They get going in their classroom as well so those of you that are here feel free to type in questions and One of the questions coming in from Karen and I'm guessing that this probably varies from Building to building where you're at, but do they have regular Chromebooks or Chromebooks with a tablet option? We only right now. We only have Chromebooks no tablet option right now, right? Yeah Got it. We don't have the even like fancy Chromebooks. They're just like no there's no touch screens or Anything like that. So we talked to them about how to take pictures on the Chromebook and record and That sort of thing, but they don't have like the like they can't draw on it Our our district tried to you know, when we first passed up when we passed bonds and got iPads We tried to make sure each classroom had at least three iPads And then the campuses began buying purchasing more iPads for their classes and Chromebooks And so We kind of favor a little bit more maybe the iPads with the little ones because it's easier for them to kind of write with their Fingers and and cut nice and select like that But one the draw the drawing record feature I think is what it gets teachers to use the iPads more because they want Them to explain and draw at the same time, but we have a lot of teachers upper grades that use Chromebooks and Alright, so Emily has a question um Maybe you can tell a little bit about how how seesaw is working out in your middle schools so so far right now it's um I would say it's a little bit slow going for the middle schools because they a lot of them didn't start at the beginning of the year they started I don't know November December is when we were really um a lot of elementary ITS as we're going and helping our middle school ITS is training them and so Right now we have some teachers using it and incorporating it, you know with google classroom and that sort of thing And that's really what we showed them is that we want them to take what they're already using And just upload it into this online journal So that's engaging. Yeah, it's more engaging. Everybody already knows that right? That's all right We know But um, yeah, so that's it. We don't have a lot of activity going on in the middle schools yet except there are a few teachers that have like taken it and Ran with it. So I think for us, it's just We don't have a lot of examples right now, but at the end of the year We're going to kind of get together and see what worked and what didn't work Yes, and just so you know, we we at our last meeting as an instructional technology specialist We kind of talked about where we're going with seesaw for our district and next thing I think we were trying to talk about was maybe going to Quality of activities, right? Because it's not to and when we talk about samur And being on that level of are we just substituting or are we having the students really, you know Make something and create and so that's where we're going next is Yes, we're happy now. You know how to do this But now let's take it up a notch and make lessons much more meaningful through seesaw. That's our next pd. Yes Can you go to this slide that shares your contact information again for those people That are here. I've had that question a couple times. How can I get in contact with these amazing ladies? They'll show kind of at the beginning, but if you are here live and you have other questions go ahead and Um Ask them now and we of course appreciate all your time stopping by so if you are If you do have questions specifically for ann and heather, I'm sure they would be More than excited to to answer them and support you as you get started as well so