001hi everybody okay well welcome to this 12 45 afternoon session about seesaw which is a program that we are using this year for preschool through second grade students i'm mike morris i'm the superintendent and with me uh i'll let them introduce themselves in a second is allison j3 molly and ella uh who are going to lead you through this training uh one thing i want to mention just very briefly because we're still going back and forth with see saw the company to get all the accounts set up as you know this year was a little atypical with getting placements done quite late uh in the year with future assignments and so we've sent everything that's he saw we've been back and forth multiple times today with them to set up the accounts um so we're
002hoping to have them ready to go tomorrow if not they may be a couple days delayed but in terms of all the connections from google meets that are scheduled they would still occur as as they normally would tomorrow but um just appreciate all the work this team has done to provide resources both for staff and for families and with that i think i'll turn it over and let jay street molly allison and ella do introductions and get going hello everyone my name is jaishri and i am the pelham tech teacher i'm also working as the elementary distance learning support specialist for this year and i'll be presenting sisa today for you and over to you molly uh hi i'm molly malay and i am also a distance learning support specialist for the elementary schools and
003i am also a special education teacher at crocker farm hi i'm alison estes i'm the assistant principal at wildwood elementary school hi everyone i'm ella stocker i am the librarian at the high school and this fall i will be supporting both summit academy and air hs with distance learning support um and also still working as a librarian so i started wearing two hats this year okay so i would start presenting my slide and show you how to work around seesaw okay can you see my slides yet oh okay they're coming okay wonderful okay can you see the presentation okay wonderful okay so thank you and welcome everyone again um and today i'm going to talk about csa which is the primary mode of communication and which also works as a digital portfolio for our students
004which we'll be using from pre kindergarten to second grade um before i move on to seesaw i would like to introduce my team again molly malay from krakow farm who is also a distance learning support specialist along with ella stalker from high school me at pelham and benjamin levi at the middle school so here's the big thing you do not need to know everything now because i know as teachers we are also trying to uh learn seesaw and other tools and we are no experts and we would say the same thing if you feel frustrated about something that you're not able to achieve if you're not able to see or work around some tool please reach out to us and we will be we will be working out together so we really appreciate and value
005this partnership and along with this training we will also be providing you more trainings throughout the sylvester to help you through okay so what is actually seesaw it is an interactive student-driven digital portfolio for pre-k to two so seesaw will be used as showcasing students work on a daily basis uh it will include photographs it will include the video recordings what your child has done so it will be a fabulous way of interacting with students as well as the families teachers will also post assignments and they will share their announcements with students and families through csa and students can respond with pictures videos drawings and record their voices okay so how to access seesaw now you have to watch out for this icon that is up here on your screen which is the seesaw icon
006if you do not see it we can help you find it because sometimes we are not because this the uh app has yet not been installed on your computer or the chromebook given by the school so um as you see there are these are the ways to access seesaw we need to watch out for this icon sisa icon up here on the laptop or on your ipad and if you're accessing using the chromebook you can access it by typing at the address bar app.sisa.me okay now when you click on the icon what happens you get three options and on a small uh pop-up window and it'll give you three options those are i'm a teacher um icon or i'm a student option or i'm a family member so the best thing would be to enter
007your ask your child to click on the i'm a student button and that leads you to a login page now your the school has given you um your child an arts.org email address and a password associated with it so you the best way to go ahead um logging into your seesaw in your child's seesaw account would be to use the email address and the password and then you click on this button which says student sign in now i want to reiterate and talk more about what's an arts.org address because many a times i find parents and students complaining or i get a feedback that the arts.org or the email address is not working and let me tell you why now if the child's name is i've just taken a mock name and the last name
008is ddd for instance in most instances arfs.org address would be the last name plus the first letter of the first first name at arts.org many students do a big do a mistake that they type in at gmail.com and that is the reason they are not able to access their arps account so be mindful of that okay there is one more way to access the seesaw account um but i would i would i would ask you to wait until your teacher has given you that you the way either when most in most cases it will be your email address and the password the other way is to add a text code and this needs to be shared with by your teacher by your students by a child's teacher so that would be the place where the
009text code goes and you need to click on the go button okay so after uh logging into the child's arps account and um there's a question of the chat that is about even getting into their school um through the chromebook um and the question is whether or not the app will already be installed on the school chromebook or should they be installing it themselves who uh would be installing the app for them um but actually not on the chromebook that they will be installing it on the ipad on the chromebook you just go to the website that um app.seesaw.media website thank you thank you molly but uh okay sure sure sorry um yeah and i might find out more about it as well thank you so uh once you once you're logged in and you
010are uh into the child's account um the the computer asks you to verify the child's name again and it would be a good practice to tell your child to identify if they are very young they can identify their name and click on their work only so once you're done with that because there would be a list of names that will come up uh beneath your name or above your name so be watchful of that uh once you're done with that the computer verifies again for one more time and then it asks you are you tom for instance and if you are the right person you can click on this check mark symbol or if you want to go back you can always check my you can choose or select the x button in red okay
011so now once you are all set you come into your account you're logged in you'll be able to see the child's dashboard now chat on the child's dashboard there are these things that needs to be taken care of and the first thing is your child's name will be up here and this one in red is just a notification so and i will come to it how to respond to it but the second thing is the child's class name it would most probably your child's teacher's name along with the classroom uh but there could be a variant as well so please be uh watchful of that then the third button that you need to be um focusing on is the activities button this activities button shows you the the assignments that are in progress or the
012assignments that are all done so there are two sub sub tabs that are provided to you then the next uh tab that you need to focus is is on the inbox the inbox shows you all the notifications all the messages that the teacher has sent to you or your child and we will talk about it uh in detail a little later okay now that you know you've seen all these tabs now there is one important one that needs to be focused on and that is your add response button now when i when you click on this activities tab you will be seeing all the assignments that the teachers have given your child here on this dashboard so how to respond to these assignments so add response button or the plus sign along with the add
013response button would be the one that you need to be mindful of okay let us see what this assignment is all about so this says it's a sort by color assignment okay so as i said before the activities tab is the one that you need to be looking out for and then you when you click on the add response button you are able to access this assignment okay so when i click this assignment i see a screen something like this now this is called as the drawing camp canvas and this allows us to do magic and this allows us to interact with this assignment and let us see how we can do that so this particular assignment if you do not know what the instructions are you can very well click on this view instructions
014button and it shows you what needs to be done but even then even if you do not want to see or you even before that the teacher will go through each and every assignment that the child needs to to do so don't worry on that account okay so this basic this assignment is basically is to to drag all the shapes into the right mats and these are all color uh we need to drag the green triangles into the green maths right so once we are done with that let's see what are the other tools we see tools here we see some tools here at the bottom and then some here the color palette and some here on the top as well and let me go through one by one but these all are okay so
015my first step would be to learn what the instructions are and do the assignment just pull it uh drag and drop these shapes into this mat and then i can add i can be more interactive with it with the assignment and let me let me show you how so this are these are the set of tools that are provided to us and let me explain one by one what this means now this t icon is for labeling so once your child has done the assignment not fully though but then a bit of it they the child can add some labels onto it so when you click on this um t button it'll open up a text box and the child can type something on it okay the next uh button or icon that you see
016is the microphone one microphone button allows you or your child to talk about or record what he or she has done with the assignment and so the teacher gets to say get the sense of uh how or what uh the student liked about this assignment or how uh they went ahead and did this assignment so that's a pretty good tool then is the camera button now a camera button allows you to take pictures and when you click on it it shows up camera on three sides of uh the screen at least on an ipad and so uh young kids can interact with this uh seesaw app you know in a very fine manner they would love it okay moving on this is the shapes the backgrounds and the links buttons that are provided to you
017at the very end and students can draw or add some shapes add backgrounds to their drawing canvas okay moving on we can do some more magic and we can use a pointer button to drag and drop things if we use a pencil we can write on it so kids can always scribble or write something on you on their assignment or drawing canvas and this comes handy these all these tools comes very handy when they want to draw something and express their ideas okay so there's this pointer pencil pen a highlighter marker and eraser here now if suppose if they want to use different colors these color palettes come very handy so when you click on a tool like a highlighter you can drag the circle fro to any other color and that color gets selected
018and then the child can draw on the color palettes okay on their under drawing canvas i meant okay so so what happens uh when we do something wrong so there is this um cool um cool there are some cool buttons up here the undo and the redo ones which allows us to just go back to our previous uh drawing or whatever we did and we can when we are all done we can always save our work and it gets saved i'm going to show you in a little while if you think that you are you want to start all over again you can always click on this x symbol and it deletes and starts over so you can do that but right now i'm going to show you how to save your work and when
019you click on this check box you see your response has been select has been added to the to the assignment that the teacher gave and so it shows up something like this and how do you know that the response was submitted so as you see it says waiting for teachers approval so here's the child's name which is kind of hidden here in between um and and so this was the title of the assignment and this was the assignment done by the child so even though the child has finished his or her assignment it would be um it would be approved by the teacher and then it lands on there on their dashboard and so this becomes our seesaw becomes as an interactive uh digital portfolio for the child and so all the child's work will
020be saved at one place isn't that cool okay so moving on now um i think i explained this part when it says okay so it says activities when i click on the activities tab and when i click on the in in progress tab i see that there are no activities waiting uh for a response and if i if i click on done i'm sure it will show up the uh done work okay now uh some more tools now what if you if your child wants to um showcase or or express or share something exciting that they have been doing at home irrespective of the teacher's homework or or classwork they can always go again to the activities button and there you will be able to see this plus add button now when you click on
021this you will be able to see a a screen something like this which says post your work so a child can take uh their photograph showing that they have lost a tooth today or they can showcase their drawing skills to the teacher saying that i drew something today or they can also capture a video of what they have been doing after school time so it will be a fun interactive way in which child can communicate to the teacher and all of it is being saved in this digital portfolio now um when it comes to older kids or maybe a second grade kid um i would suggest that they can always upload their pictures although this also saves the pictures and this can be used by the preschoolers and the kindergartners in the first grades and
022by second graders as well but if you want to upload some picture from the internet or from somewhere else then upload button comes very very handy now this note functionality helps you write something write your thoughts onto it so a child can always express by writing and it's a fun way to interact as well now this link capability uh can be used but i feel that it is very very it would not be used as much with younger kids we can share some links with the teachers okay now that brings me to the last uh part of this presentation and i'm going to talk about the inbox tab how the teachers are going to communicate with students how the teachers are going to communicate with parents and vice versa now this is the inbox button
023that allows that allows you to communicate send notifications and receive notifications and this can also be used as a private communication tool if you want to send some message just to the teacher and not broadcast it uh to the whole class then it would be a private chat and say for example i have created a small note a welcome note uh for students uh at the very beginning of the school year and this comes under the class notifications or announcements because uh it is sent to everyone but in response i am sure you can send some private messages as well so that will be the communication part and notifications show what all assignments are pending or similar announcements so that kind of brings me to the very end of this presentation and if you have
024any questions i can take those so i there are a few that have come through in the chat well while you've been giving this great presentation thank you so much today um one that it looks like um has already been answered by mike who's manning the comments as well but um with a question from greg about how he saw accounts been enabled yet and uh he's currently unable to log in and i'll just repeat what mike said at the beginning of the meeting which is that um the district has been back and forth we saw on the sort of seesaw end of things um all day today yesterday as well the delays are now on we have done everything they've asked us to send them and we are just waiting for them to send us
025the information that we need to get them to families so um we apologize that that is happening but it's out of our control at this point we have given out all the information they need so we hope to have those two very very soon but we will still be meeting as classes we will meet um even if students are unable to log in to seesaw so please check your email from your classroom teacher for that information um and then one other question was yes the teacher will send and download uh info and links yes they will be sending that to you you should check your email for that uh if there's any other questions please feel free to post them in the comments and we'll um we'll stay on for a little bit longer to
026answer those so and as a reminder my presentation are in the chat here and also this as well as being this uh presentation is being recorded and will be available on the youtube channel free to come back and review it anytime if you'd like to watch it again i'll come back on at the end um and just thank jason and the team uh for going through that and we know it's a new program and we do as ella was just saying apologize even since the stream started we've been back and forth more with see saw and uh you know getting from a district account to school-based accounts so we are working on that you know for many of our students in grades k and one they'll have orientation the next couple days um so it's
027really or for pre-k and k excuse me um so it's really for first and second grade students where there may be this kind of instructional gap in terms of being accessed being able to access esau cs like many tech companies educational tech companies expressing extreme volume at this moment in time for instance google drive was down for a number of times google drive for edu was down a little bit this morning it's now back up so uh zoom you know didn't work and canvas didn't work the first day of classes for much of the country which was in late august so i think we are aware of some of these challenges we'll work through them but i think as ella said you know we'll just be able to communicate uh when this is up and
028running and that'll be communicated to you and again this youtube uh as it was noted will be active indefinitely so even if it's a day or two later or your child's in kindergarten preschool and they wouldn't have access to seesaw yet anyway because they wouldn't be in school until friday or the next week we'll make sure we're communicating all that information but i really want to thank all of you for tuning in and i want to thank you know all the team for putting this together i appreciate how committed this team is to family outreach and making sure that caregivers have what they need to support their children this year and hope everyone has a lovely afternoon thank you