How to upload and create lessons in Seesaw | Seesaw tutorial for teachers
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- Опубліковано 20 лип 2024
- I have been creating lessons to be used in Seesaw during distance learning and I think it is an amazing app/website for primary students! It is so user-friendly and great for remote learning. In this video, I walk you through how I upload PDFs and turn them into lessons, how I create my own lessons with moveable images in Seesaw, how I attach videos and links, and also how you can share your activities with others in Seesaw! Check out the video to see if you could use this fun app in your classroom!
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Thank you for showing how to create the sort with moveable images! This platform has been amazing for the school shutdown. It is user friendly for both teachers and my first grade students. THANK YOU!!!
A few people said that this tutorial was a bit too fast-paced for them. I just learned this tip: Click on the settings wheel on the control panel at the bottom of the video. Then you can change the "playback speed" to .75 or .5 to slow down the video and speaker. This helped me to be able to follow all of the action and process all this great information! I am new to see-saw and have not done my introductory tutorial yet or even set up an account. I've been putting it off all summer, but your video has inspired me to get moving! Looks like a great platform. Thanks Susan!
Game Changer! Thank you VERY much! We are going all virtual this year and I really needed to know this about Seesaw! Especially making pdf's editable!
Thank you so much for being fabulous! This was so easy yo follow and I am so excited to now play with SeeSaw!
Nicely done. This will be a terrific introduction to creating a lesson in SeeSaw for my teachers. Thank you!
Great tutorial! I'll start using seesaw with preschool next week and I love it! Thank you
So helpful! I had been so lost with how to create assignments, thank you so much for this great video, awesome job
Thank you for teaching us amazing knowledge on how we can use different items and how we can upload, and assign work for students!This is magic I can tell.
Thank you so much! You answered all my Seesaw questions.
Thanks for this video! I'm trying to get well versed before Tuesday!
Hi ! My name is Ari and I am from 🇨🇷 Costa Rica. I have been teaching preschool for almost 5 years but I didn't know about this App.
Love all your videos and I started following you😁👍. I'm going to teach next 2022-2023 for the first time in other country and you inspire me to keep learning and being creative. Thank you so much for you information. 🌷Please continue to share your experience with all.
Blessings🙂
Thanks for the great activity ideas. I am new to Seesaw and this tutorial is great!
I would like more Seesaw videos. We have the summer to learn how to do it, and will be using it in the fall.
I am not a techy person. I teach prek. We used Seesaw this year for our virtual students and I really loved how user friendly it is, for teachers and for students as young as 4 and 5.
This is sooo helpful. Often I had to rewind and write down what you were doing, but it was well worth the time. Now I have a great instruction manual for creating lessons. Our school is just starting with Seesaw this year and I have been doing personal professional development via you tube. Thanks again.
I am so helpful it helped, Pam!! Feel free to share with your coworkers if they need some UA-cam PD as well haha!
@@SusanJonesTeaching This has helped to put me more at ease. We are starting school in-person and probably will have to be going to distance learning, Thank you again.
Thank you for this tutorial. It was well explained. Excited to try.
Great job! Probably one of the better videos I've seen about SeeSaw. The only thing I would have added was the icon codes for the instructions. Otherwise, it was perfect!
This is great! Please i will need more videos on seesaw. THANKS
This new to me! I look forward to learning more!!
Great introduction for new teacher to distance learning for first graders.
Thank you!! Your videos are very helpful
Thanks! I am just getting started!
Thanks! That was super helpful!
Just want to give a try! Thanks for sharing Susan
This was very helpful!! Thank you.
Your video was very helpful. THANKS!
This has been so very helpful !! Thank you
This was so helpful. Thanks for sharing.
Very clear instructions. Thank you.
love your presentation!!
You are very charismatic! Great video. Thanks
I loved this video it helped my kids out.
Very helpful - thank you!
I just watched your fabulous video. Thank you for this fabulous resource! I was wondering if you happened to know if there was a way to add audio files to the images? For example, when you click the fox, you hear the word fox… I will be ESOL kindergarten at a Title I school. My kids can’t sort if they don’t now the name of what they are sorting! Even my ITT can’t help me figure this out. Any suggestions???
Thankyou so much it makes so much sense just never done a PowerPoint are you able to do a video on that ?
Great short and detailed explanation on activities!
This was really helpful. Thank you.
thank you for showing how to make the PDF work for a click and drag activity! I kept trying to put hte images into the powerrpoint and upload it and it was harder !
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I'm just learning Seesaw. I like your video and understand it now that I've had some experience with Seesaw. When I first viewed your video, I became frustrated because you talked so fast. Now that I've played around with Seesaw, I understood better your message. Thanks.
So helpful thank you!
Thank you for the video! It would be great for the students to narrate their choices as some students may view the "cube" as a "box" and put that in the short vowel column.
The record button enables students to record their voice as well as movements.
Thank you for the tutorial. I am new to seesaw. I reach elementary art grades 1-5. I would love some ideas on how you gather student work- so they can see each other artwork- and make or leave a kind and helpful comment for their classmates. Last Spring I used google photo albums- the students uploaded their art to it and there was a link off the side for comments -from each other and from me. Any suggestions? Thank you!
Love, love, love, this vid! It answered so many questions for me!
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Love this video!, I use Canva to create all my Seesaw activities, I use all the free clipart it has. Then use the lightshot tool (chrome extension) to copy and paste all my elements and movables into the Seesaw activities :)
Yes! I use Canva for a ton too - I actually have a video about that coming soon!
thank you for sharing.. Very helpful! Where do you get your clipart from?
Thanks for yr nice lessons.
Hi Susan Jones teaching I’m Hinz and I’m 1st grade and I have seesaw and have a nice day😁.
I loved your video! Very clear, informational and on point. Thank you. I used Google Classroom for DL in the Spring. How can I use Google Slides in Seesaw? In Google classroom it gave an option to "make a copy for each student," does Seesaw offer this option as well or how would I go about assigning a Google Slide?
You can create a forced copy link.
Would have been useful to have an inital video on set up how learners access the work.
Hi susan, very helpful. Kindergarten dose have science?
Can you help us by telling in detail (like step by step) the tools, which button to press, which to click, or where to find the buttons. Because it was so fast and i couldnt catch up 😅
I agree. Please move the mouse a little slower. There's a lot to see on a screen. Great info. Thank you:)
Yes! I have no idea what you are doing. I can see you're doing a lot, but that doesn't teach me how to do it.
Would you know which platform would be best for elementary PE?
I love the idea of using Seesaw to create interactive work for my class but I have google classroom. If I want my kids to look for and turn in assignments using google do they also need to log into seesaw to complete assignments that are created in Seesaw?
Well explained.
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Very well done
Hi Susan. I can tell Seesaw will be great for distance learning. If I get hired for a full time teaching position for the 2020-2021 school year I know the school where I hope to get hired uses Google Meet and Seesaw. I successfully downloaded to Seesaw app but I don't have a school account yet. Is there a place we can go in and practice using it? I would like to be prepared and ready to go.
You mentioned in the video that you would link how to pull one page out of a pdf but I’m not seeing it.
Hi Staci! I explain that both in this video here ( ua-cam.com/video/kCxBhrMoILk/v-deo.html ) and also in the description of that video!
Very nice. Can this apply if I have special needs students? How could I make it more engaging?
do students have to create their own account to access my shared link activity?
If you don't have the paid subscription, can you do this?
How do you split PDf's bought from tpt.
When students are movie pieces can they accidentally delete or edit them or do the images stay as teacher created them.
They can, but you can teach them undo (back) button. I do this both in Seesaw and Google Classroom.
If you bought digital games from TPT for the kids to use, how would you upload those to SeeSaw so they can each click and play?
Do you mean digital games for Google Slides?
Can u share video of introduction of short vowels
Thank you for this great resource! I tried to find your video explaining how to split a PDF and couldn't find it. Could you please share a link to that video?
Here's the link: ua-cam.com/video/kCxBhrMoILk/v-deo.html
@@4everThoughtful Thank you!
I have seesaw on the
iPad
Where do you find the clipart? Not all of them are usable
My school is suggesting teachers use this for our lessons. The challenge is that it's a high school and the material is of course heavy in theory. For example, I'm a math teacher who's going to be teaching trig soon. I've already been using google slides as a sort of journal where each student can make notes and draw graphs, solve problems, etc. Most of what I see in these see-saw videos seems to be aimed at lower gradeschool. Do you see something like this working at high school level?
When you record yourself reading the passage for students, does the play button always stay in the middle of the page? I am trying to record myself reading math word problems from a pdf I uploaded (one per page, so not in the directions), but I am wondering if there is a way to move the big play arrow that is in the middle of the screen so they still have space to show their work or write the equations. Thanks for the video. It was great!
Thank you for this video. Where did you get your clip art from?
Hi Anetria! I buy all my clip art on TPT!
My school is called cardinal charter academy and I had this app
how do the kids know if they have moved the pictures in the correct column? Is there a underlying feature that tells them right away if it was correct? Or do they save their work and then you give them feedback on it?
The teacher gives feedback once submitted. The teacher can make a self-correcting slide as well.
Hi, do you have tutorials in spanish or french? I m supose to use Seesaw but my english and my collegues english is not goog enough... please!
This is awesome! Would you recommend it more than Google Classroom for first graders? Or Dojo?
I am not too familiar with Dojo so I won't speak on that, but I am very familiar with GC and watching my son, Theo (5) try to maneuver and use both, I can confidently say I think Seesaw is better for kids 5-8 than Google Classroom. I like that as a teacher you can share audio and video directions, students can easily find and use the drawing tools. They can also explain their thinking when they click the microphone and submit it! I also like it better for ipads! Every new app will take a bit of teaching, but I love this one!
I agree with Susan 100%! I have used all 3 and Seesaw is so user friendly for K-2 students. The parents and students love it and I appreciate not having to troubleshoot. Class Dojo is good too, but I would choose Seesaw over any other platform for primary students.
Hi! I used class Dojo (before the virus hit), and started with Seesaw when the shutdown happened. I Think of Dojo as a "Twitter" or "Family Text Circle" for your class. It is fantastic (and super easy to use) as a communication system. Not so great as an assignment, project, feedback system. Seesaw is your classroom in an "online" version. It has a great communication system built in (a text type system) but parents sometimes miss the "announcements". I plan on using both (it is over engineering, I know) - but parents like the ease of texting me on Dojo with changes in transportation, questions, etc. They like the ease of assignments on Seesaw. HTH.
I agree with Susan too! Though I love Google Classroom (and it has its perks and features which Seesaw doesn't have), the best feature in Seesaw in my opinion is microphone where kids can explain their choice and draw / type at the same time.
Hello, if a student submits an activity with a mistake, then they edit it. Will the teacher know if the student makes edits? The teacher has not yet approved the activity
question.....in addition to your activity created, can you add a video of yourself completing the activity as a sample for them?
This could be done on the first page of the activity where you'll record your screen just by hitting on the microphone in Seesaw and record or just attach this video as an example.
Hi. Can you use this also in the free version? We can't get the premium version because we have less than 100 students.
I have the same question!
Do you use this instead of Google Classroom or with GC? Also, can you post things from Seesaw to Google Classroom?
Hi! They are two separate platforms so you would use them separately, not together. Although, the same types of activities can be used in both programs!
@@SusanJonesTeaching Could I post a link in GC that will lead my students to a Seesaw activity?
@@elenasheets4824 It is possible to do that right now. Choose a Seesaw activity, click on 3 dots and choose Get Students Link.
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Does seesaw allow you to upload videos you have already?
PLEASE HELP! I created a drag and drop activity but when I assign to students and use the sample student everything is locked. Is this because I am on the 60 Day Free Premium Trial? I am waiting for school to give us access so I am on the trial right now. I don't know what I am doing wrong that it does not let me click the images. At first I thought it was because I added audio to each slide, so I deleted the audio. Even when I deleted it and went back the images were still locked and not being able to move.
Be sure the “hand tool” is selected in order to move objects around the screen.
Hi Susan, I loved your video. Which would you recommend for 4th & 5th graders? Would you prefer Seesaw or Google Classroom?
Hi LaQuanda! You could definitely use it with older grades as well! Honestly, either would work, I just find most teachers in grades 3 and up use GC because it's used so often in middle and high school!
Does anyone know how a child can listen to their own recording before sending to teacher?
The child will have the option to click the play button before submitting.
U do in home tottering
I love seesaw how do you
Hello! I am super new to See Saw. Your video was very helpful. I am a high school Spanish teacher. I am disappointed to see it costs $180 a year. Do you think I can get away with just a free version? I teach 5 classes
When I tap hit activity, there is no add activity button. The District purchased this platform. Any suggestions?
Click the green plus button. There you will see your options.
I don't have the app but it is on my iPad and I have a Acer and it is fighting me right now
Is there a gradebook component to Seesaw?
There is not.
I figured out that you didn't go too fast, the problem is you were talking all about the program but did not explain what you were doing or how you did the step--so you were 4 steps ahead of me all the time--great tutorial though--thank you
Is there a way in Seesaw for students to handwrite rather than type?
Yes! For any activity, they would just choose the pen tool at the bottom of the page and use their mouse/trackpad (if they’re on a laptop/desktop) or their finger/a stylus if they’re on a tablet. Hope that helps! My daughter was a kindergartener using seesaw on her iPad this spring during distance learning and she loved it! She went back and forth between writing and typing. 😉
Where can you find how to split the PDFs?
Here's the link: ua-cam.com/video/kCxBhrMoILk/v-deo.html
Do you suggest seesaw for young preschoolers?
Yes!
Super fast, but thank you for the info!
Where did you get your clipart that you own?
I found earlier responses saying you bought them from TPT. Can you share the link?
Can SeeSaw be used for 5th graders?
It is a preK to grade 12 platform.
Do teachers have to make there own templates or buy them?
There are many templates to choose from in the activities community library found within Seesaw.
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