Student Activity Reports in Seesaw for Schools

Woah! Thanks for Michelle Lang asking and Sara Malchow knowing, I just learned about this cool feature in the Seesaw for Schools admin dashboard - Student Activity Reports. Here's what you see:

Find it on the Overview screen of your Admin dashboard. Scroll to the bottom right and select Get Student Activity Report.

Seesaw info for Specialists & Co-Teachers

Seesaw has a great article with things specialists should consider when setting up classes or deciding if they should be co-teachers. You can also read more below:

Weeky Tech-y News March 30th-April 3rd

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My Fave Home Learning Apps for K-2

I love PBS Kids Games, PBS Kids Scratch Jr, Duck Duck Moose Moose Math, Khan Academy Kids, Math Learning Center apps, Rivet, Draw & Tell and Epic for home learning. ALL FREE! Find this slide and more at bit.ly/gothedistance20

Seesaw Tips 💡

Kindergarten Calendar Example from Ben Cogswell

I LOVE this example of a virtual calendar time in kindergarten, shared by teacher Ben Cogswell.

Weekly Tech-y News March 23rd-27th

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Great Video to Help Parents Get Connected to Seesaw from Home

Seesaw Tutorial Videos

Common Sense Media Tech Balance

Network Blocking Seesaw

I am not sure why this happens, but I've had reports that a couple of teachers have gotten "locked out" of their Seesaw accounts. They get a message saying that their network is blocking Seesaw, like the one below.




Clearing cache/cookies in Chrome seems to be helping this issue. Click on your Chrome Settings, then Clear Browsing History. Check the boxes for clearing cookies and cache. There's a quick video below:

Kris Szajner's Remote Learning Activity Ideas for Seesaw

SO MANY AWESOME IDEAS HERE!
READING

MATH

SCIENCE

Epic! Remote Access for Families

Epic has created a helpful resource page for teachers to enable remote access for families. This is a fantastic took to provide access to many books and educational videos for kids. Click here for their full resource page, and click the slides below to see how to enable remote access.

Home Learning Fliprid

I will be posting videos on this Flipgrid to answer questions about home learning. I would LOVE for teachers to post videos if they have questions, and for us to interact and answer each other's questions!

Accessing Seesaw at Home for Our Students and Families

I am getting lots of questions about Clever and Seesaw. :)

• If you've been using Clever badges to login, you CAN send home the badges (copy and paste each student's badge into a separate Seesaw Family message for each student, or via email, Remind, etc).
• All students can also access Clever using their email address. Even if they don't use their email address in class, you can give parents information so they can help their kids login. Each student's email is firstname.lastname@billingsstudents.org and their password is their student ID number with 000 in front of it. (Most of them know their ID numbers from using iRead or something like that).
• If students will be using iPads at home, they'll probably want the Clever app installed on their iPads (just like at school). They'll also need the ST Math app if they're using ST Math. There is a good printable with parent instructions here.
• ST Math app for iOS
• ST Math app in Google Play Store
• There is more information on using Clever on our website here.

Most Seesaw for Schools classes were created using Clever, and kids will see Seesaw in their dashboard. If your class wasn't created using Clever/PowerSchool, Seesaw will NOT be shown as an option in your students' Clever dashboards. We can't add it, I'm sorry! In that case, you'll want your students to either login using Google or using the Remote Learning Codes (if your kids are used to logging in via QR codes).

I have created a couple of quick videos regarding questions I'm seeing frequently regarding Seesaw and remote learning. I will continue to add them to this Flipgrid as I make them. Also, stay tuned as I will be posting "office hours" when teachers will be able to reach me via Google Hangout each day if they need any support or have questions. I believe Sarah, Shelly and the curriculum coaches will be doing the same, we are just waiting for directives from the district about times, etc.

Padlet of Learning Activities by Grade Level

Remote / Home Learning Resources

Weekly Tech-y News March 16th-20th

Click the images to view larger. Visit this Flipgrid for a tutorial on the Stop Motion videos for St. Patrick's Day!

PBS Kids EdCamp

More info and register at bit.ly/2VDl5EN