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Could be used for:
- Quick response to a prompt
- Show evidence of skill mastery
- Revision/ editing process
- Sharing/ celebrating student work

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You have probably heard of Flip and have seen tons of people sharing their experiences using it on social media. It seems that people all over the world have been using Flipgrid in all sorts of creative ways.

Flip is a video response platform where educators can have online video discussions with students or other educators. Teachers can provide feedback to students AND better yet students can provide feedback to one another.
The best part? Flipis completely FREE!
My first experience with Flip was back in early 2017 in our weekly #Ditchbook Twitter chat where a group of educators from all over the country shared ideas and inspire one another online. Since then I have had the opportunity to use Flip with students, administrators, as well as other educators in workshops and professional development sessions.

Each time I introduce it the reaction is always the same, "Wow! There are so many ways to use this tool. I can't wait to try it out in my class!".

But don't take my word for it, check it out and try it yourself!

In this post you will find over 50 ideas and ready-to-use Flipg activities for your class. You can use the quick navigation box below to jump to any section or scroll through the post to find something that you can use in your class tomorrow!

Getting started with Flip

Getting started with Flip is easy. As a teacher you can sign up (see the steps below) and start creating your grids and topics right away. Students and participants don't need an account, they will simply use the code you provide to log in and start recording!

The Flip Getting Started Guide

Want even MORE assistance bringing Flip to your classroom? Check out their onboarding webinar or visit the updated help center that to get up and running in no time!

Flip conversation starters from the Disco Library

Flip understands the power of community and educators connecting and becoming better together. The "Disco Library" tab at the top of your Educator Dashboard and you will find over 20,000 Flip topics ready for you to add to your Grids. Once you select a Topic to add you will have an opportunity to update and make any changes to the Topic before it is added to your grid.

Below you will find six popular topics from the Disco Library that can help your students get started using Flip in a fun and easy way. Just click on the button Don't see a topic you like? There are lots more here.

50+ Flip activities for your class

English Language Arts

Ready-to-use ELA activities from the Flip Disco Library

Reflect and assess with Flip

Flip Math activities

Ready-to-use math activities from the Flip Disco Library

Science and Social Studies

Ready-to-use science activities from the Flip Disco Library

Creating a community

Ready-to-use community building activities from the Flip Disco Library

Flipgrid beyond the classroom

Conversations about race, equity and justice from the Flip Disco Library

Appsmash with Flip

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- Beginners/New to the Resource: Set up a sample class in Flipgrid so you can make some example assignments.

- Get started with a Topic! Click the link in the resource above to see some ideas that you could use.

-Goal: Try to have at least one topic made at the end of our work time. (*Bonus: You could even include an intro video to go with your topic)

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- Synchronous or asynchronous formative assessment (provides real-time feedback)

Could be used for:
- Quick checks for understanding
- Specific feedback based on formative checks
- Review at the end of units/sections
- This tool is similar to Kahoot and Quizlet

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Assessment

When I return graded homework to students, I sort of cringe on the inside. I'm never sure where all that hard work and meaningful feedback is going to end up.

Sometimes it's in the trash (or recycle bin). Sometimes it's on the floor of the hallway.

The worst for me: half-torn and sticking out of the bottom of a locker.

I can understand it from a student perspective. They've moved on to other things. Yesterday's assignment is so ... yesterday.
If we can deliver that feedback in the moment - while they're still wrestling with a question or problem or assignment - it's more likely to hit the mark.
That's where Go Formative (goformative.com) - one of my favorite classroom tech tools right now - comes in. It's a free assessment tool that lets you ...

Create questions (multiple choice, true/false, short answer and drawn "show your work" questions) to deliver to students

Add other content to the questions (an image, text, a whiteboard doodle or a YouTube video)

Watch as students answer from the teacher side of the site

Leave real-time feedback in the form of a grade and a written comment

You can deliver the questions/content to students through a classroom you set up in Formative or just by giving students a quick code to the assessment that they can enter at goformative.com/join.

Once you jump into the site, you'll find that creating an assessment and adding questions to it is pretty easy. But as I've used it, I've realized that I'm only scratching the surface when it comes to Go Formative. There's so much you can do.

Here are 20 ways you can make assessment awesome using Go Formative, from basic to creative:

1. Create quizzes or assignments with Go Formative.

This is Formative at its core. Add questions to the assessment, deliver it to students, watch as they complete questions, and give them comments/grades as feedback.

2. Ask quick questions on the fly.

Are students struggling with a specific problem? Do you need to know what they know on a key concept? Pull up Go Formative, create a quick one-question assignment, hit "Assign" and create a quick code. Students can enter the quick code at goformative.com/join and answer. It's all set with minimal set-up time. (Once you get confident in this, you might be able to set all this up quickly during a class.)

3. Make your old assignments digital.

If you're not quite ready to create brand new, shiny digital activities, you can put a new spin on your old ones. If you have a document or PDF file of the assignment, upload it to an assessment in Go Formative. Then you can add interactive questions right on top of it that students can answer. It makes grading those old assignments faster, and the immediate responses means feedback is more meaningful.

4. Draw answers to reading comprehension questions.

My favorite type of question on Go Formative is the "show your work" question. It gives students a digital whiteboard for drawing answers (instead of typing them). With students who struggle to write (i.e. younger students, students who struggle with English, some special needs students), they may have comprehended what they just read but can't get it out easily in written words. A drawing can show you all the details that student comprehended.

5. Assign a Go Formative quiz through Google Classroom.

If you use Google Apps in class and have access to Google Classroom, now Go Formative interacts directly with Google Classroom. After creating an assessment, click the Google Classroom button in Formative to send it directly to your Google Classroom.

6. Let students review feedback.

If you assign your assessments through a class in Go Formative, students will be able to go back through their assessments later. They can see previous questions as well as the grades and comments left as feedback. This can provide a nice review/reteaching opportunity.

7. Make "circle the one that doesn't fit" questions.

When you add "show your work" drawing questions to Go Formative, you can let students answer by drawing on images that you've uploaded (click "add a background image" when you create the question). Also, when you give students a digital whiteboard for drawing answers. This is great for circling what matches or what doesn't fit.

8. Make "finish the drawing" questions.

When you use "show your work" drawing questions, you can start students' work for them by drawing on their digital whiteboards. When they get the question, they'll see what you drew and will be able to finish. For elementary classes, this could mean drawing the face on a person or drawing the second half of a body. For older students, it could mean drawing boxes for a comic strip and letting students make the comic in Go Formative.

9. Show understanding by creating a word web/semantic map.

Use that same "show your work" drawing question to let students make connections between key concepts in a word web.

10. Discuss student work without showing names.

After students finish their questions in a Go Formative assessment, teachers can see every student's answer to a particular question. Teachers can display those answers to the class without showing names or grades assigned to them. Just click the blue buttons (one is a percent sign and the other is a group of three people) to stop displaying names or grades.

11. Leave better substitute teacher lesson plans.

You don't have to worry about how your directions are delivered by a substitute teacher if you're gone if you create them in Go Formative. Assign an assessment through Go Formative, add instruction by clicking "Add Content" > "Text Block", add questions and videos and more, and let students work. You can even create a YouTube video of yourself giving instructions and add it to the assessment!

12. Take a global poll.

Has your class made contact with another class in another part of your state, a different state or a different country? ( If not, find some great ways of connecting by clicking here!) If so, everyone can work on the same poll, assignment or discussion question together in the same Go Formative assessment. Create the assessment, click "assign" and create a quick code. Give the code to students and direct them to goformative.com/join.

13. Do an assignment across every class.

Don't want to take your Go Formative assessment global? You can have all classes in the same course or grade level do the same poll, activity or discussion question together as well.

14. Flip your classroom.

Formative can help you deliver instruction to students while they're home so you can practice while you and your students are together in the classroom. Create a short instructional YouTube video and add it to a Go Formative assessment (or find one on YouTube). Then create questions that make sure the students watched and understood the video. Once they've done the assignment outside of class, you'll be ready to dig deeper in class!

15. Gather ideas at a staff meeting.

Go Formative can be used with teachers as well! Create a couple quick questions for teachers at a meeting. Then give them a quick code and direct them to goformative.com/join. They can draw, choose or write in their answers. (Or, consider using Go Formative to eliminate staff meetings. Deliver the meeting through videos or text blocks and gather feedback through questions!)

16. Deliver digital map quizzes.

Find a picture of a map online (or take a picture of one in your room using a camera). Upload it to a Go Formative assessment using the "Upload and Transform" button. Then click on the cities, states or geographical features you want students to identify to create questions there.

17. Analyze a historic/current events photo or work of art.

Find a digital image of a photo or artwork you want students to analyze. Add it to a "Show Your Work" drawing question using the "add a background image" feature. Students can circle important parts or add text to explain features.

18. Analyze a reading passage and/or identify evidence.

Add a reading passage to a Go Formative assessment (by uploading a document or PDF of it OR taking a screenshot of it and adding the screenshot to a "Show Your Work" drawing question). Students can underline important parts or type text next to the passage to comment on specific parts.

19. Imagine and illustrate a scene.

After discussing a historical event, story or concept in science (among other things), have students draw what they think it looks like in a "Show Your Work" drawing question using specific details from class or the reading.

20. Analyze a video visually.

Add a YouTube video to a Go Formative assessment. While students watch it, they can take a screenshot of a specific part and add that image to a "Show Your Work" drawing question. (Or you can do this ahead of time by uploading the screenshot to a "Show Your Work" drawing question as a background image.) Students can draw on that screenshot or add text. Example: In a health/physical education class, students could watch a game or an athlete's performance and then analyze it by marking up the screenshot.
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-Beginners/ New to the Resource: Set up a sample class in GoFormative so you can make an example assessment.

- Get started with your first assessment! Make one for fun, use any of the ideas mentioned in the resource above, or transfer some of your pre-existing reviews.

-Goal: Try to have at least one assessment made at the end of our work time.
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-Asynchronous content delivery with formative checks to ensure content comprehension.

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How to Use EDpuzzle to Create Video-based Lessons

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The Edpuzzle flipped classroom basically consists of assigning your students video lessons to watch at home and using class time for more meaningful activities. Students learn the basic concepts of the lesson at home using Edpuzzle videos, which they can watch at their own pace. This gives the teacher more time in the classroom to work on other activities that will reinforce students' understanding of the topic. Edpuzzle makes the flipped classroom work. Keep reading to learn how!

Math and science are usually taught in two parts: theory and practice. Many teachers complain that the curriculum is so broad that they spend most of their time covering the theory and never have enough time to incorporate problem-solving or projects that allow them to apply their knowledge. Here are a few ways that videos can help:

1. Assign videos about basic theory. We've created tons of videos covering basic theories in all subjects. You can find them in the "Curriculum" section. Assign one of these pre-prepared lessons to watch at home and use class time to clear up any doubts or push the students to learn key concepts in more depth. Students can watch as many times as they need to, so there's no need to use class time explaining the concept.

2. Use videos to show how to solve problems. Assign a video explaining the basic process to solve a problem, giving your students the chance to practice before coming to class. You can then use class time for a more challenging version of the same problem.

3. Engage your students with videos. Share documentaries, lab experiments or any other videos to surprise and engage your students. Collect the questions/reactions/opinions they may have while watching the video and use that data to drive your time in the classroom.

4. Share class rules via video. Usually, teachers spend a lot of time explaining and repeating class rules (behavior, lab security). Record a video and embed questions to check for understanding. You can use the same video every year, saving you time.

Teaching a language is a huge challenge. Reading, writing, speaking and listening ... teaching them all in a limited amount of time is almost impossible. However, video lessons and the flipped classroom will make your life much easier. Here's how:

1. Check for listening comprehension. Forget about CDs - you can use any video available on YouTube and embed questions to check for understanding. Include open-ended questions to work on writing skills or multiple-choice for vocabulary checks.

2. Start a debate. Share an interesting topic using a video from YouTube. You can embed an open-ended question asking for their point of view and use those responses to start a debate in class.

3. Use videos to go on virtual field trips. You may not be able to physically take your students to a country where the language is spoken, but you can go there virtually with a video, allowing them to explore the culture and listen to native speakers.

4. Share new grammar and vocabulary. There are thousands of videos that cover grammar rules or vocabulary. Use Edpuzzle to let the students learn these concepts at home and use the time in the classroom for practice.

Social studies standards are constantly changing and are so broad that it's hard to cover all the necessary curricula with a limited amount of time. It's also hard to be an expert in every area. Use Edpuzzle to:

1. Bring in the experts. There are plenty of expert TED Talks available on a wide variety of social studies topics. You can assign these videos to watch at home and ask the students for their points of view or to summarize the content. Use class time to develop key ideas or answer any questions.

2. Bring books to life. Use videos to enhance the content students read. Reinforce topics they've just learned or build on that topic using digital content. There are great resources already available online. You can embed a few questions to check for understanding, and use class time to discuss and share.

3. Turn your slides into videos. There are many online tools that enable you to quickly record slide presentations and upload them to Edpuzzle. You can now assign your lecture as homework, and you can use the time saved in the classroom to answer questions or work on projects.

4. Free tutor for your students. There are excellent video resources on Edpuzzle that are free to use. With one click, you can use the fantastic videos from Crash Course or Khan Academy to give your students an alternative way of learning the concepts covered in class or reinforce particular topics. With Edpuzzle, you can hold your students accountable and easily identify any questions or concerns.

Special education students need individual attention, but it can be hard to cover the curriculum and provide extra one-on-one time with the students. Here are some ways Edpuzzle can help:

1. Create learning stations. We recommend putting together two or three stations and rotating your students. For your video station, equip your students with headphones and have one or more videos ready. By using headphones and visual resources like videos, the students enhance their focus and retention of information. The other stations can have worksheets, hands-on projects, or involve one-on-one time with the teacher. That will give you extra time to provide individual attention to your students.

2. Discuss behaviors. Many special education teachers spend a lot of time explaining real-world scenarios. It may be hard for your students to visualize that specific situation or the context. Using video lessons can provide a visual example of a particular social situation.

No matter what subject you teach, you can take advantage of Edpuzzle to harness the power of videos in your classes. You can also use Edpuzzle for:

1. Substitute teachers. If you're sick or traveling and you want your students to continue learning even when you're not there, you can assign a few video lessons to complete while the substitute teacher is there. You can hold them accountable, read their responses, and continue without interruption when you get back.

2. Creating an in-class flipped classroom. If some students don't have access to the internet at home or you want them to take advantage of the laptops/tablets available in the classroom, we strongly recommend this method. The in-class flipped classroom is a rotation station model where one of the stations is for viewing Edpuzzle video lessons. Every 15-20 minutes (2-3 videos) the students will move to the next station. You can set up different stations where the students learn the same concept using different approaches: peer-to-peer learning, writing/practice problems, teacher lecture, project-based learning or hands-on experiments.

3. ASL. American Sign Language teachers love video lessons because it's a visual resource to learn how to sign. What's more, the fact that you can embed questions ensures that the student understands the context of the conversation or the meaning of a specific sign. You can even assign the video to watch at home and then monitor student progress and viewing history.

4. Physical Education. Coaches and PE teachers love video lessons and have been using them for many years to review techniques and strategies and motivate their students. With Edpuzzle, you can finally hold these athletes and students accountable. You can use a video that explains the basic rules of a sport that you want to practice with your students, or you can assign a specific offensive play that you want to cover during practice. The possibilities are endless!

5. Professional Development. Teachers are also students, but when it's time to do professional development, you're probably tired or thinking about the million other things you have to work on. You can flip PD by assigning videos to watch at home and use class time to respond to questions and allow teachers time to plan how they'd like to implement new concepts in their classroom. You can supervise the work and brainstorm with them.

6. Music. Videos are an excellent audio resource. Many music teachers use Edpuzzle to cover instruments or musicals. Depending on your students' level, you can assign videos to practice at home and use the class time to practice as a team.

In a flipped classroom, it's important to understand two things that we'll explain more in-depth:

1. Students love YouTube, but learning from a video is a skill they need to develop.

2. Change requires patience.

Teach Students How to Learn From a Video Lesson

We strongly recommend explaining your objective in flipping the classroom to your students, their parents, other teachers and your principal. If they understand the final goal, it will be easier to get them on board.

During the first classes, you can assign videos to watch in the classroom. You can either watch as a group or have students watch individually. Identify and celebrate desirable learning behaviors before the video, like pausing the video, rewatching certain parts of the video to improve understanding, how to sit properly in front of the laptop and how to take notes.

Then, once the students have practiced a few times with the video and understand the behavior expected of them, we strongly recommend assigning one or two videos per week to watch at home. Measure the number of assignments completed and get feedback from the students on the length of the video, the difficulty of the questions and the content of the lesson.

After one or two units you won't want to go back to the traditional way of teaching!

Many teachers think that they have to flip all their lessons. That's simply not true. We recommend flipping one or two units your first year and working in a few more in the second.

Having someone else in your department or school that wants to flip their class is also very helpful. Sharing content and best practices make the whole process much easier.

Students might be reluctant at the beginning - they have to pay attention to the video and respond to questions, and it's no longer an easy passive experience for them. However, in the long run, students will start to see the change in their understanding and grades. Don't give up - you will see results!

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Ed Tech

There's a good chance you've done the "write on a sticky note and put it on the wall" activity - or have seen it happen before.
Padlet lets those sticky notes have images, links and videos AND be available with practically any Internet-ready device.
It used to be blocked by my school's Internet filter. This school year, the powers that be have allowed it through on student devices, opening up lots of possibilities in class!

Padlet is a great place for gathering ideas, sharing them and modifying them later. It's like a living, breathing webpage. Users can add links, YouTube videos, files and images to Padlet notes. They can move and arrange them. A link to a Padlet can be shared and Padlets can be embedded into webpages.

Here are 20 ways to use Padlet in class:

15. Collect videos to share in class

Looking for FREE Tech Like A PIRATE resources?
You'll find a treasure trove of additional ideas and activities related to t ​ ​​​​he book at TechLikeAPirate.com!

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-Beginners/New to the Resource: Explore some sample, public Padlets so feel comfortable making your own.

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-Goal: Try to have at least one Padlet "assigned" at the end of our work time.
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- Asynchronous content delivery platform.
* Special note- bear in mind that this technological tool is most commonly used in elementary schools.

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- Student portfolios
- Family communication
- Content delivery
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Creating is memorable. When students learn something and then can create something with it - a digital project, a story, a video - that's something they can be proud of.

Sharing what you've created enhances the experience. Who wants to work hard on something that no one else sees?

Creating and sharing, all in one place. That's the power of Seesaw ( http://seesaw.me), a free platform with powerful creation tools and a place for students to see each other's work.

In the past, here's been the knock on Seesaw:

"It's just for little kids with iPads."

Elementary teachers have been the majority of its users in the past. With their touchscreens, iPads have been a perfect fit for those classes.

But Seesaw has made some recent additions - some impressive creation tools.

Plus, it's put an emphasis on improving the experience for students with Chromebooks.

It's not just for little kids with iPads.

I don't think enough people know about what this tool can do - for FREE - with students of any age.
(FYI: This isn't a sponsored post. No payment. No partnership. I think it's a great tool that you can use for free that you should know about.)
What Seesaw can do

Seesaw boasts that it's three tools all in one place:

Student portfolios

Formative insights

Family communication

To me, it's a place where students can make things with what they've learned, give and receive feedback and share it with class.

Let's start with making things ...

Here's what students can do with the creative canvas:

They can snap pictures. They can draw on the screen. They can add text to label.

They can record their screen - and their voice - to explain things in their own words.

They can add background images and photo collages. They can add shapes to drag around.

Once they've created something, it goes in the journal.

Students can see each other's work to comment on it and/or like it.

Student work and activities can be organized with folders.

Parents can get access to see student work and comment on it, too.

Seesaw integrates with G Suite and Google Classroom.

Grab a link to an activity in Seesaw and share with students in Classroom.

Students can create in G Suite and add to Seesaw from Google Drive.

You can import your Google Classroom rosters to Seesaw.

If you need more information or want to see it in action, check out these links:

20 ideas for using Seesaw

How can you use Seesaw in your own class? Here are some ideas. Each one can be scaled up or down to the age/grade level of your students. Think: "How could I modify this to use in my own class?"

1. Math problem deep dives. Have students do a video recording of the canvas. They work a math problem and explain the steps they take and why they take them.
Click to watch an example of a math problem deep dive.
2. Science cycle/process drag and explain. Students can set up photos or diagrams of a cycle or process on the canvas ahead of time. They start a video recording and drag the parts of the cycle/process into place, explaining why they go there. Think: the water cycle, the Calvin cycle, the Krebs cycle.
Click here to watch a water cycle example (0:17)
3. Poster with presentation. For years, we've made posters with posterboard and hung them up in the hallway. Students can create posters with Seesaw. Instead of writing a bunch of small text no one will read, they can video record and present their digital posters.

4. Step by step photo collage. Show the steps with photos students have captured themselves. They can demonstrate their writing process, a science lab, or the parts of a soccer play in PE class.

5. Write text and talk. Give a writing activity a new dimension. Have students write with text on the Seesaw canvas. Then ask them to record a video explaining their writing process or the choices they made.

6. Annotate text. Take a photo (or grab a screenshot with the Seesaw Chrome extension) of something students have written. Then, using drawing, text labels and/or shapes, have students annotate and analyze the text.
Click here to watch a text analysis example (0:31)
7. Comic strips. I'm a big fan of using Google Drawings to create photo comic strips. Students can use these to demonstrate learning - and they're the stars of the show! In Seesaw, students can bring in Google Drawings comic strips to explain or to share with the class for commenting. Or students can create comic strips with the creative canvas in Seesaw.

8. Tell a story by moving characters. Students can add photos or images of characters on the creative canvas. It can be a story they make up or a story they've read/heard in class. Students do storytelling in a video by moving the characters around as manipulatives. (Bonus: Add a photo or drawing in the background for the setting!)

9. Caption this! I've suggested that students use a photo and add annotations, captions and speech bubbles with Google Drawings. This is a natural crossover to Seesaw. They can do all of this in Seesaw and share it with the class for liking/commenting.

10. Create in Drive, present in Seesaw. You've seen a few examples of activities that can be done in G Suite that you can do in Seesaw, too. If students create in G Suite, it's easy to share them with the class in Seesaw. Download the G Suite activity as an image file (if available) and share. Or create a share link in G Suite and share it with the class by choosing "Link" when sharing with the class.

11. Post a question, reply with a comment. Using the "Note" option when sharing with the class, type a question for students to ponder. Students can respond with comments.

12. Spark curiosity with family/student announcements. Have a unique activity planned for tomorrow? Want to get students excited and talking? Send a family message home to parents (or a student message if students have their own phones) in the evening. Make it something fun that will spark student curiosity for the next day.

13. Record class instruction videos. Want a video of your instruction that students can reference later? Use the "Record a video" option when posting to the class. Want to record a more creative video? Use the creative canvas and create whiteboard-style instructional videos. Pro tip: the more concise, the better!
Click here to watch an interactive science report.
14. Record small group videos. Be a fly on the wall during student group discussions. Have students use the "Record a video" option to record their conversation so you can see it later.

15. Record video self assessment. Students don't have to get all their assessment and feedback from the teacher. When they do it themselves, it empowers them to be lifelong learners. Recording a video and posting it to Seesaw gives students a place for that self assessment.

Students assessed themselves during independent reading today. We are checking for, is this a just right book!? Students were asked to record their reading and reflect on @Seesaw. LOVING this idea, thanks @ms_toland 💓💓 #FISD4 pic.twitter.com/0LtRPbEoHp

- Meredith Miller (@hosp_fourth) August 26, 2019

16. Video interviews. If you can record video of yourself, you can record video with others, too. Use the webcam in a Chromebook/laptop or the mobile app on an iPad or smart phone. With the "Record a video" feature, video interviews can be recorded and added from anywhere. Interview fellow students, parents, community members ... anyone!

Mrs. Antone's 5th graders hit the ground running!🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️Ss engaged with one another as they conducted video🎥interviews to upload to their @Seesaw Journals.📲They will revisit their videos at the end of the year to see how they have changed as well as reflect on goals met! ⭐⭐⭐⭐ pic.twitter.com/LVo0B1oHM6

- Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Elementary (@bentsenljisd) August 20, 2019

17. Build community within the class. If there's a big game, an academic competition, a music performance, take a picture. Shoot a video. Then share it to the Seesaw classroom. It's not just for academic work, and these kinds of shares build the classroom community.

18. Grab images anywhere with the Seesaw Chrome extension. This Chrome extension makes it easy to capture a screenshot of any webpage and add it quickly to a Seesaw post. Then, annotate it and record video to take it a step further.

19. Reflect over time with portfolios. Students add their work to Seesaw throughout the school year. As the school year ends, they're able to go back and see how their work has changed and improved. All it takes is some time and attention to the students' growth.
Click here to watch a reading analysis.
20. Share paper/analog work digitally with a photo. Are students doing work for you on paper? No shame there! To save it for reflection later - and for class discussion about it - have students take a picture of it and share it to Seesaw.

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20 Seesaw ideas with Chromebooks for K-12 classes

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Creating is memorable. When students learn something and then can create something with it - a digital project, a story, a video - that's something they can be proud of. Sharing what you've created enhances the experience. Who wants to work hard on something that no one else sees?

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Here are some ways to get started!

-Beginners/New to the Resource: Make a sample class and familiarize yourself with the features on your dashboard.

- Get started with your first assignment/manipulative document! Make one for fun or use any of the ideas mentioned in the resource above.

-Goal: Try to have at least one "assignment " at the end of our work time.