In this video we're going to learn how to use a
program called Seesaw. It's possible that your teacher has
already shared the direct link with you to Seesaw
but if they haven't all you need to do is search for Seesaw in the search bar,
click on the first link that pops up, and that will take you directly to Seesaw.
From there go ahead and click on 'Log In.' Since you're a student, you're going to
go ahead and click 'I'm a student.' Here you'll have some
different options for how you can sign in.
If you have a google email through your school you can sign in
with google or if you've previously signed in with another email and
password you can enter that below. If you have a
Clever single sign-in login you can click the link here to log in
with Clever. And if your teacher gave you a code to enter you can enter it in the
text code box or you can scan a QR code to get
yourself into Seesaw. So here i'll just enter a code that my
teacher gave and click 'Go.' Then you'll need to find your name
and click on it. It will ask you if you want to sign in
and click the green check. Once you're in Seesaw,
you're going to see the assignments that your teacher has assigned to you
on the left hand side of the screen. You'll notice that these are in the
'Waiting for Response' section which means that your teacher is waiting
for you to complete this assignment. So let's scroll down and take a look at
this assignment here, "Curious Moment: What Can You Create,"
to see how we can complete it. In order to access the assignment, I'm going to
click on it and then you'll notice that there's a set of instructions.
In addition to reading the instructions you can also play the instructions out
loud so that they are read to you. After
you've read or listened to the instructions and you're ready to
complete the assignment go down to 'Add Response.' You'll notice at
the top that you can also access the instructions again if you need to
and you can also listen to them being read out loud to you.
So for each assignment your teacher will tell you how they want you to respond
and in general you have six choices. The first
option is to take a photo of your work. Here you can select 'Photo' and then you
can hold your work up to your webcam and take a picture of it. Once you've
taken a picture of your work you'll notice that you have several
options for how you can annotate on top of it.
For example you could add text. So I might say,
"My Awesome Portfolio" and then if you needed to
you could rotate how that text box shows up. You can also
drag the corner to make it smaller or bigger
and you can also customize the style, alignment
and color of the text. In this case your teacher wants you to explain the
assignment that you're showing. Here you'll select microphone, click
'Allow' to give it access to your microphone,
then you can start recording. "This is my awesome portfolio,
I can't wait to show it to you." When you're ready, click 'Done'
and you'll see that an audio file has been added to your assignment.
If you listen to it and don't like it and want to redo, just click on the three
dots below and click 'Delete' and that will get rid
of that audio file. Next you could add another picture
through your webcam. We already looked at that
so i'm not going to show you that again. And if you want to further customize it,
you also have options for shapes that you can add. So for example
you might want to add things like arrows that point to specific parts of your
work. The shapes are fully customizable so you can drag them wherever you want
them to go, as well as adjust the size and you can also adjust
the way that the shapes look. Then at the bottom if you click on
the caption that will allow you to add an explanation of what you're showing,
if you need to add that as well for your teacher. At the bottom you'll see
different tools like a pencil, pen, highlighter, and marker that will
allow you to draw directly onto this image. The colors are fully
customizable and if you don't like what you did, you
can go to the eraser tool to erase what you wrote. In addition to
the eraser tool there's also an undo and redo button, so
if you just want to undo something to get back to a previous
version, you would click on that button and you'll see that it looks the way
that it did before. Once you're ready to hand the assignment
in, go to the green check at the top and depending on your teacher's settings,
it might tell you that your work is still waiting for teacher
approval. It's possible that your teacher might not accept your work
and might request that you redo it, in which case you'll be able to edit it
again to be able to fix any errors. Once you
fix them you can resubmit your work and again it
will be waiting for teacher approval. Once your work has been approved it will
show up in your journal and as you continue to add work
you'll be able to see all the assignments that you added
on your journal page. Let's go back to the activities for a moment
to look at this other assignment that you need to complete.
Here you'll notice that your teacher has actually given you
a worksheet that you need to draw on top of
in order to solve these problems. It looks like your teacher did the first
problem for you here. So in this case you would just use the
drawing tools in order to solve the problems
and then after you've solved them, go up to the green check
again to submit it. Now that we've learned how to add an
image with annotations to our journals as well as how to complete work directly
on top of a worksheet that our teacher gives to us,
let's just look briefly at a couple of the other ways that we can add
assignments to our journal. So if we go back to the green
'Add' button, you'll also see that you have an option to add a video.
'Video' will just take a video from your web camera
in the same way that we took a photo. So here you could actually
record a video of yourself talking about your work
and then you could submit that to your teacher. Once you're done with that video
go up to the green check, then you'll be able to listen to that video
again and use all the same annotation tools
as you did with the picture. Another option
is to upload a file. These files could come from either your computer
or from your Google Drive. You can also add a note to complete an assignment.
So this would be a little bit more like writing directly onto a piece of paper.
You could also include a link to another website.
Lastly let's look at where you can see announcements that your teacher has made.
You'll notice next to the inbox that it's telling us that we have unread
messages. When you click on 'Inbox' and then click
on the messages tab, you can see any messages that your
teacher has sent you. And then when you click on the
notifications tab, you can see if your teacher provided you with any feedback
on your work as well as whether or not your teacher
approved your work to go into your journal.
There's a lot you can do with Seesaw and those are really just the basics,
but it's a great program for you to be able to show your teacher
exactly what you're learning.