001oh and it's live great thank you um all right so it's exactly five o'clock so i think we should just get started right away um hi everyone on the watching on our um arps youtube channel my name is ella stocker i am the high school librarian and i am the distance learning specialist for the high school and summit academy um and with meeting it today is lovely jay shree krishnan who is the pelham elementary school tech teacher and also a distance learning specialist for our elementary schools um jay she's going to be doing the presentation and i'll let her introduce her up a little bit in a minute i just want to let folks know who are on the call that you are welcome to um post a comment in the chat which could be
002right on your right-hand side of your screen if anything comes up as jason is presenting that raises a question for you or you're not sure if you understood what she said you're welcome to post a question i'm going to let jhj just give the whole presentation and then at the end we'll come back and do a q a to cover some of those questions so rest assured we will get to you all your questions um i also wanted to let you know that we are still in a battle with um with seesaw to get all of our seesaw accounts set up so they have all the information they need our incredible tech team has been working so hard to get students all the physical hardware they need like computers and ipads and all that stuff
003and now we're just waiting when cesaro to actually finish setting up the account so i apologize for this line i know that's really frustrating to hear if you're a parent or a guardian of an improvement who's going to be using foosa but we are doing everything we can to escalate the process um and we're just waiting on this point so um want to let you folks know that to begin with and then j street i'm going to pass it off to you thank you ella good evening everyone and welcome uh today i'm going to talk about the seesaw uh tool that we are using for pre-k to two um and uh it will be a just a basic introduction to what you can expect when your child or works on seesaw and to begin with
004i will start off with my presentation and i am going to share my screen with you guys okay and let me know if it works it's not showing just yet but now sometimes it's a little bit of a lag so yeah and i do not see it as as well so i might stop sharing and try it again great and if we need to i can also oh there we go yeah wonderful okay so i'm gonna switch my screen to the presentation and i'm going to present my slides okay so welcome again everyone uh today i'm going to talk about the basics of seesaw which is the primary way of sharing your child's work with the families and it will be also used as a tool for communicating with you uh you and other caregivers
005okay so before i actually talk about seesaw i would like to introduce my wonderful team who i've been working with uh for two past two three weeks um molly millay uh is the distance learning support specialist for krakow farm wildwood and fort river ella stalker who just introduced me is from the high school and she's also the high school librarian i am jai shree and i work for pelham and i will be the dlss uh for pelham school benjamin levi is for the m's arms school the middle school so we all are working hard for getting things in place for you um so before when i introdu uh i start talking about this uh presentation i want to let you know that it's okay if you do not know everything right now we will help
006you throughout the semester to um to get hold of the new tools that we are introducing for your children and so you can always reach out in uh in case things do not work out and we will always be there to help you okay so what is actually seesaw sisa is an interactive student driven digital portfolio for students where students can share their work and the district has opted seesaw for pre-k to second grade in most of the schools it will be used until first grade but then at pelham we will be using it for second grade as well now what happens when you use cesar what is the benefit so teachers can post their assignments and announcements and teach and teachers can also communicate to the families as to what is the progress or
007if there is something some lagging behind or or are all the all the wonderful work the students are sharing so watch out for that um now how can students respond so students can respond with pictures videos with their drawings and by recording their voices okay so um how do we get to see so always watch out for the seesaw symbol or the icon and this would help you take to the next step on logging into the seesaw and getting all the information that the teacher has sent now what are the ways to access seesaw now again we can either look for the icon seesaw icon that will be saved onto your child's chromebook that was given by the school or if it's your own computer you can always copy a shortcut on the screen if
008you're accessing using the browser you can always click on or you can type app.seesaw.me so those are the two ways so one is the seesaw icon and the second one would be the app.csa dot me on the address bar okay the next step once you get into the app you will be asked for logging login information now there there are as you click on the seesaw icon you will be taken to the small window that will show you three options one would say i'm a teacher second would be i'm a student and i'm a family would be the third option now you should always look out for the i'm a student um icon or or the clickable uh bar when you click on that it takes you to entering the login information now the login
009information is the arbs.org email address that needs to be filled in there would be this password that would be sent along from school you need to add in that and then click on the student sign in button now what basically is an arch.org address if you're if and for example i have given this first name and last name here and this is in the the in the rs.org address would be most of the times the last name of the child plus the first letter uh first letter of the first name at arps.org now it might change if there are more common first names and last names so please do watch out for it now uh many a times i find uh parents sending me emails that the arts.org address has not worked and the reason
010is the child would have typed the first name last name correctly at gmail.com which is incorrect so always uh try to watch out for this archdot org address okay now what is the other way of logging in would be to add a text code here which will be shared by your teacher but most of the times the email and the password would be the way to log into the classroom so when you click on this text code and click on the go button you will see the same uh same window okay now after you click in that um the computer verifies if you the if you are if you're logging into the right uh username so then the computer will ask to click on your name and it's always nice to sit with a child
011and make them identify their names if they are in pre-k or kindergarten so that they go into the right account and sometimes students do get into the uh get into wrong accounts and they can always come back by exiting out okay so if you are tom for instance you click on the name tom and then the computer verifies again if you have the right credentials and then it and then you can go ahead and click on this tick mark sign else if you think that you just accidentally or the child accidentally clicked on some of somebody else's name then they can always go back and click the x out sign okay so as soon as you log in and you you you have logged in the correct id and everything you get into the child's
012dashboard and this dashboard has all the details that you're looking for all the announcements all the activities that the child has done or will be doing in his or her or their classroom so there are some um some uh buttons that we have to look out for so first thing is the name of the child so to know that we have entered the correct uh child's classroom so this would be the one where it says the child's name and the second thing would be the right classroom so mostly the child will be enrolled into one classroom on seesaw but you can still verify that by uh remembering the classrooms the teacher's name and most probably it will be a combination of the class the grade and the teacher's name and then the next tab or
013button that we have to look out for is the activities button up here now activities button do tells us that which uh who um what all activities are uh has a child done for now or is pending or the child has to do so i might just stop there does ella have a question yes there's just one question in the chat and it's a very good one which is will the teacher send us the password or do we create it good question thank you ella so um yes uh so that's the the teacher would you would be sending you the password as well and it would be most of the times the arbs.org address which you use for signing into the google meet or google classroom okay so do not worry on that account the
014teacher would be giving you all the details okay so um so the activities button has all the activities that the child has to do or has done so uh for example um i'll just get into that detail but let me finish up with the other things that i've marked here so for example for instance uh so the other thing that to look out is the inbox and the inbox has all the notifications and the messages and the class announcements that the teacher does and you can also respond back to the teacher using this inbox button okay so the the last thing that we have to look out here on this dashboard is the add response button so for instance the teacher has given has has added an assignment which says which asks them to sort
015shapes by color now how do you respond to that assignment so you have to click on this add response button and moving on so um for example um okay so again this activities uh tab i have highlighted so that it has all the assignments and everything posted by the teacher um and let us see how we can respond to this assignment okay so as you see when i clicked on when i click on this add response button it would lead me to a drawing canvas so this this assignment lets me draw or drag and drop things onto a place or add or record voices uh draw something on it and so on and so forth so this small pointer lets me lets me drag and drop these shapes onto these mats um and what about
016these tools up here so i'm going to talk about it so what if i don't understand what needs to be done with this assignment so up here where it says view instructions we need to click on that button and this would give us the instructions to um to tell us what needs to be done with the assignment okay so moving on uh i have sorted all the shapes onto these mats so let us see what what more can i do on this drawing canvas and here comes the magic tools that lets the younger kids interact with the assignment because uh when they are just dragging or dropping or something they it's not as much fun as adding more interesting facts to your assignment so and then seesaw lets us do all that magic so for
017example um if the child wants to add some text to the assignment there is this t bar or the t icon which is which lets us label things then is the microphone button which lets us record our voices and the other thing is the camera so camera say for instance if you if the child wants to take some uh pictures of things that are that are red in color then the child can instantly take a picture and add it to his or her assignment so that isn't that fun so moving on now these are the three dots up here and i've highlighted them and these three dots let us add shapes to our assignments it lets us add backgrounds and it also lets us add links now links will not be used as much by
018little kids but yes they can have fun or add more variety to the assignment by adding backgrounds and adding shapes okay so moving on now what if the child wants to write something on the assignment yes they can do that using seesaw and let us let me show you how they can do it now there is this pencil um icon up here which lets us write something um and then there is this pen uh icon or feature that lets us write something with like a pen and then the highlighter and the marker and if something goes wrong what happens we have this magic eraser that can erase all the uh or we can undo our writing or drawing now what if the child wants to uh write in a different color or choose a different
019color so here is a wonderful color palette that the child can use and that will really enhance their work okay now some more wonder buttons are there and as you see there is this undo or redo button that that undoes your work and then if you think that you really need or the child thinks that the work wasn't uh done so good and if he or she wants it to be um or they want to just start over all over again so then delete and start over button would be the key they can click on this x uh x icon and then it leads it then the assignment just starts over all over again okay now if you think that everything is good i am ready to go um i'm ready to submit and everything
020then you need to click on this check mark symbol and when you click it saves your work okay okay now um as you as you see on this screen once your work is all done and saved now it shows up on the child's dashboard but it also says that it is waiting for teachers approval so once your child does the work um the teacher would respond to the work that the child has done and they will review the work and see if something more needs to be done but most of the times it will be good to go okay now as you see we came back to the very first dashboard that we were seeing a few minutes back and here as you see the in progress bar does not hold any activities because whatever
021word the child was given it's all done and there would be one assignment at the done bar or the uh done sub tab uh and plus to do will have the assignments that the child needs to do okay so moving on now what if the child is done with their homework or classwork or asynchronous learning and they want to post more assignments or or they want to share their experiences outside the school what if they want to show their broken uh what you call what if they they lost a tooth just in the evening time and they want to show that to you their teacher so they can do it in many many ways they could either take a picture of their broken tooth or their face or they can also record a video okay
022now what if the child wants to draw something and show it to their teacher yes they can click on this button and they can show it to them now upload lets us upload different uh files mainly photographs or videos or something that is saved onto their drive or computer now note can be used by students to write something and express their feelings to their teacher so that can be used now again the link button is is provided to us but i would always say that little kids cannot be using that feature much okay now i come to the last tab which is all about communications so as you saw before there was this inbox tab and it has this one in red circle now that shows that there is one notification or one message that
023is for that is due for you to see and there would be basically uh the class announcements that was sent by the teacher to all the kids or all the families it would also include student announcements as to what they can expect tomorrow or the week later or about some other events that will be happening in the near future so for example i have sent a notification to all the class members here and i have created this test note and this shows this is more like a welcome note that i have i have created and it went out to all class all uh students or all families but if the teacher wants to send private messages to families or the the family wants to send private message to the teacher that can as well be
024done so that will be this class announcements um button there is there's also one student announcements button beneath this so um always watch out for those and the notifications talk about what all assignments are there and all those kind of notifications that are sent through seesaw so that is all about the inbox that is all about the family and student communication and i think that brings me to the end of this session and i'm going to stop sharing and if someone has questions so there are no questions in the comments just yet but let's we spoke a minute or two to maybe think of some that they are now that you've given this presentation that they might still have um for anyone who missed the very beginning of this call i do want to reiterate
025that um we are still waiting on accounts for students this is at this point out of the district control we've given he saw everything they need to create the accounts and get them back to us and we're just waiting on that last step so just be aware that that is coming um and we apologize that it it's it's taken longer than we had hoped for to get to families but that information will be sent to families and guardians um in your emails so please keep an eye out for that we really will be coming very soon i know that our our tech folks have been really hard at work um getting that together and getting sort of haranguing them to make it happen so we hope to have it very soon yeah and we might
026just wait for a couple of more minutes if somebody has some comments or something we can um wait for them i i do also even if you're seesaw account your child has a csa account that isn't up and running yet um we are going to still have classes tomorrow for all but our i think are just our kindergartners and maybe first graders are starting a little later in the week um we are going to have class for them so they should be looking in their email for a google meet link um to join our virtual class meeting the first name school camaro all right hello ella yeah i was just seeing at the questions oh thank you um so uh i see that there's a question up here if the teacher sends a worksheet that
027we need to print is there a way of downloading or printing from seesaw so so seesaw as such is a digital portfolio and we are trying to lessen as many uh uh i mean uh prints on paper so we just want to work it out digitally so uh i i i feel that there will not be many instances where you need to download something and use from seesaw you can see everything on the computer or the ipad and you you can work right from there so it has the video recording ability it has the voice recording ability so i i do not worry on that point yes okay so there's one one more question does cso work okay on an ipad or are chromebooks preferable i think it can work on both so um but
028i think for ipad you need to download the seesaw app i believe it's actually downloaded for them it our kindergartners got ipads instead of chromebooks this year and the ipads should have them already on them so there's right they won't need to do any downloading it should just be right there that little icon that jay shree mentioned at the beginning that's what you'd want to click on yeah but i was and i was also wondering if they arrived if it is their own ipads they might have to download it yes you would need to download it if it is your personal device yes so yeah that should be all good yeah thank you all right if there's any other questions i also do a reference especially because we don't have the accounts yet um this
029video is being recorded right now this live chat and this will be um available to you on this arp's youtube channel anytime so when your child does have an account to log in to seesaw you can come back and review all the slides that jason just went through and i also would have a really great distance learning resources site that is constantly having new things added to it and this recording is also a group that will go up on the site should we download the people class or this family app oh i was just trying to get the answer for that i was just wondering if jerry could help us uh from his side i think you can just uh download the seesaw i think the csr class app is probably what you want yeah
030that's what your student would be using okay so our expert i.t director would help us uh through this question and we appreciate your patience i think it's it's an important lesson that none of us are experts of our time we're all learning and yeah new things yeah and and just as i said before uh please don't get overwhelmed uh we i mean i am a parent and i can understand when things do not work out at my end so please reach out to us and we will support each other so that's how i would split it yeah so don't worry on that account yeah it's a good partnership yeah absolutely and we look forward to it and we value it so i'm certainly proud that jury has responded that synthol class is the app that
031you should use so if you are using a personal device and you need to download the flaw you should be looking to download seesaw class thank you jerry for doing that for us yeah uh class would be for the student and parents can install the other one is what noah is saying in the comments i would say if you stick to class that's what your students will be seeing that's probably the easiest place to start um so that would be my recommendation just as a uh to keep things in mind for yourself you'll see exactly the same things they're seeing if you're using the class app so that's my recommendation yes and i feel that uh the seesaw class would have all the notifications and the family communications part as well in it so please
032do not worry you will be able to reach out to your teacher through the seesaw class app so that'll be one one-stop shop for everything i believe yeah all right well it's 5 30. i know we were only scheduled to be on this call for half an hour um i do want to just encourage folks if you have questions that come up later please do reach out to um you know myself to jay shree to molly who's not on this call but is the other elementary school um distance learning specialist who's supporting our elementary school's parents and families and students and teachers so we're all really happy to help you or point you in the right direction if it's not us you need we'll get you to the right person um i also just want
033to remind you to check your emails and make sure that you have the link for tomorrow's google meets or for kindergarteners and first graders for friday's google meets um because that information will be coming to you very shortly if it's not there already from their classroom feature so please keep an eye out for that because that's going to be helpful for them so i think that's everything unless there's anything you want to add at the very end here i think that's pretty much it and uh we look forward to uh your participation yeah have a great year everyone absolutely thank you thank you everyone for being here