Developing Re-Telling Skills in Mrs Stankiewicz's Class

Following from developing Mother's Day posters using Pic Collage the students in Mrs Stankiewicz's Year 2/3 class started using Book Creator app for developing their Fractured Fairy tales. The students enjoyed using the inking function to draw pictures for the cover page of their book. They also continued to develop their keyboard typing skills. They are excited to continue developing their re-tells on more pages with more functions.

Learning Maths through Padlet in Mr Cramer's Year 4 Class

The Year 4 students in Mr Cramer's class used Padlet to collaboratively develop their addition strategies in Maths class. By accessing the Padlet board created by Mr Cramer as a guest, via the QR code the whole class shared out their strategies for addition using carrying. This enabled the students to not only conceptualise their own strategie/s as a verbalised/written explanation but to learn other strategies from their peers.

The QR code to access a Padlet board can be scanned from the projector, computer screen or printed and distributed around the class.

Learning Technology Prefects in Year 6

To help build learning technology fluency in the class and beyond a group of Learning Technology Prefects in Mrs Taylor's Year 6 class have taken on the role with the goal to help distribute, manage and troubleshoot the learning technology the use. The Prefects retrieve, book and distribute devices to the class e.g. iPads allocated to their block. Also, they assist peers with troubleshooting e.g. Wifi connectivity, determining if a device switch-over is needed and most importantly helping peers utilise the app/s being used for learning tasks. After using the learning technology, the Prefects return and charge the devices, respecting the rights of others to use the technology for learning. The prefects have even assisted peers in other classes.

Seesaw - Digital Portfolio

Seesaw can be used as a digital portfolio of student work and achievement. To get started simply download the app 'Seesaw: The Learning Journal' at the App Store (iPad), Play Store (Android) or at this website https://web.seesaw.me/
Create your teacher account and begin creating your classes, linking specialist teachers and using the various management features. The main features are a Class Feed to see general notices about all posts and activities posted by you, the teacher, and students in your class.

Class Feed View

There is also a Calendar to allow you to create, activities, assignments or notices specifically related to dates.

The Class Blog provides a public window to the activities in your classroom, which you can password protect (highly recommended). You or your students can tag a post in the Class Feed to be added to the class blog, by clicking the globe icon under any post in the Class Feed. Further, you can print a QR code of your class blog to post outside your classroom for parents and carers to gain easy access and see what has been happening.

Items are added by both students and teachers by selecting the + button in the top right corner. Items to add include those pictured below.

How do Students Contribute?

To access the class Seesaw portfolio students simply open the Seesaw app or website, choose 'I'm a Student', then scan the QR code using Seesaw's QR reader. The other option is to make the Text Class Code visible and students can enter this code on their iPad to log in.

You can set all posts by students to be approved by you (recommended).

Students have multi-modal input options to elaborate on their work in their posts. These included, pen or inking a note, using the microphone to record a voice over explanation, a link, an image or a text typed note.

How Do Students Upload Work Done with Other Apps? 

Seesaw is compatible with many other apps, providing a quick way for students to upload their creations made with other apps directly to their Seesaw portfolio. The link below provides a list of apps that are compatible with Seesaw as well as the file modes with which you can advise your students to upload their work to Seesaw e.g. as an image from the camera roll.

https://help.seesaw.me/hc/en-us/articles/204910545

How do Parents Contribute?

The short answer is with the Seesaw Parent app. The smart answer is to master the process of creating a portfolio and guiding your students to independently be able to contribute to their portfolio before inviting parents.

Have fun and remember to go to the Seesaw help page at any time if you need help: https://help.seesaw.me/hc/en-us