Familiarize yourself with the Blogs feature (Blogs Video)
Class Meetings -- video posts
Make a get to know you video (teacher and students) and post to the blog
Ice Breakers
Get to Know You activities
(optional) Enable students to see each other’s work (wrench icon)
(optional) Enable student commenting (wrench icon)
With Parents
Post private messages to post weekly assignment summaries
Direct Messages to parents
With Students
Post student messages
Video instructions or class meetings
Voice instructions
Pictures
Rename your class for easier access (wrench icon, then click Class name)
Homeroom classes--put a 1 in front of the class name to force it to the top of the student's class list
1 Wilcox Homeroom
Specials Teachers rename the class to include the specials subject and homeroom teacher
Find and save activities in the Activity Library
Edit activities from the Library to meet your needs--if necessary
Post video and voice messages in addition to written instructions
Video Read Alouds
Video Mini Lessons
Provide feedback to student activities (approve posts)
Provide timely feedback
Utilize Drafts to provide students with an opportunity to respond to feedback before a final grade is assigned
Multi-page activities (new feature)
Blog Feature and the option to connect with other classes and share student work
Reflect in Seesaw -- Chrome Extension
Students will have to install the extension through the Chrome Webstore before they can use it
Students must be logged into Seesaw for the extension to work
The extension takes a screenshot and imports the screenshot into a new Seesaw activity that the student can annotate with the creativity tools
Login to a school Chromebook or Chrome Browser on a personal device at home
Login to Clever through the Fort Links boomark folder
Click the Seesaw Icon in Clever
Select the correct class
Homeroom Classes should start with a 1 before the homeroom name
Open an assigned activity
Play a video or voice instructions
Find the instructions and read the instructions
Complete the activity
Take a Picture with the Chromebook webcam
Record a Video with the Chromebook webcam and microphone
Link from Google Drive
Docs
Slides
Submit an activity draft
Submit an activity
Look for feedback
Revise their activity draft based on the feedback
Create a new activity and post it to their portfolio
Exemplars
Sharing their Learning
Mastery
Ownership of growth
Share met goals
Share an activity to the class blog (if the blog is enabled)