Challenge Four

Pages 69 - 70

Booksnaps with Seesaw

Seesaw is a powerful visible thinking tool. It is a digital portfolio app that allows students to easily upload and share their work and receive feedback. A booksnap is a digital, visual representation used to annotate and share reflections of any excerpt from a book or text. Booksnaps are often created with Snapchat, however they can easily be created with Seesaw as well.

Take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with Booksnaps using Seesaw by watching this video

Let's Try It Out

1. Create a teacher account at seesaw.me (use on chrome browser or using mobile device)

2. Create a new class and give it a name (your choice)

3. Click on the green plus button on the top right

4. Post to student journal

5. Choose the photo option

6. Take a photo of a page in the book that has stood out to you

7. Add a label to summarize or pull out important idea from the text

8. Customize the label , add arrows or underline text you find intriguing using draw tool

9. Go to the next step by selecting on the green check box (you will need to do accept it twice)

10. Once it is posted select the three dots and chose share item and tweet it out using #infusedclassroom and @TanyaAvrith and/or @HollyClarkEdu

Turn it in

Share Your Work!

Select the three dots under your Seesaw post and copy the share link to paste on this Padlet

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