Soft Technology

Join me and my awesome friend Nikki Vradenburg, tech integrationist for Montana PBS, in a Seesaw webinar! This webinar will focus on Seesaw basics and is geared toward beginning Seesaw learners. Webinar will be held from 3:45-4:45pm on Wednesday, November 8th and will be worth 1 OPI renewal unit. Step up available, but no MEA Trade. Sign up below! Loading...

I am so impressed by these teachers' reflections after reading Teach Like a Pirate by Dave Burgess. It's been a super fun book club! Hope you'll join us for our next one!

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In Mrs. Podoll's 2nd grade we used Erintegration's awesome idea for creating student avatars using the app PicCollage Kids . Allowing students to customize their avatars for use in Seesaw and other programs that require a profile picture gives them ownership of their journal, as well as helps protect student privacy. Plus, this was a really fun activity for learning how to use PicCollage Kids and encouraging student creativity. Read this post on the PicCollage Educators blog to find out how to make them. Continue reading to see some more amazing examples from Mrs. Podoll's class! Love the creativity shown! How to Change Seesaw Icons: When students were finished, they uploaded their completed collages to Seesaw. To make these the student icons in Seesaw, the teacher downloaded each image using the three dots, then in the Manage Students settings we were able to change each student's icon. Watch this quick video to see how:

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Love these awesome technology #growthgoals shared by TILT Phase 2 teachers! These were created using the Seesaw activities feature.

I shared an idea on Twitter where teachers could upload templates for high frequency words into Seesaw , and have students "rainbow write" the words using the drawing tool in Seesaw. My amazing friend Sara Malchow used Keynote to create a whole bunch of awesome templates for rainbow words, which you can access here . She also gives directions for adding these to Seesaw, where students can copy & edit to complete the rainbow words. However, using the new Seesaw update with activities, you can not only share these, but save to your activity library to use again and again. Keep reading to see how! The new Seesaw activities feature is great and will make sharing these activities out with students so easy. However, when you have a similar activity (like rainbow words using different high frequency words), I would suggest writing the student directions in a Google Doc, where you can then copy and paste them into the Seesaw activity without having to retype each time. If you sim...