Category: ISTE Standards
Teacher Feature: Global Collaboration Project & Spark
What do collaboration, personal narratives, and videos all have in common? Adobe Spark! This year, Issaquah Technology Program (ITP) participants were asked to work on the Global Collaboration standard by pairing up in elementary/secondary teams. I had the pleasure of seeing parts of this collaborative effort in Erin Kwok's 6th grade Digital Photography class (PCMS) ...
I’m a Specialist And I Want to Use Seesaw
So, you’re a music, physical education, or library specialist. You have heard about Seesaw from general education teachers in your buildings or maybe you have gone to a Seesaw training. You think you are ready to try using it in your classes but are not sure the best way to go about it. “How many ...
Queen Debuts Her First Instagram Post
Educators use Twitter as a professional learning community to engage with others around topics important to them. Today Twitter is a buzz with news that Queen Elizabeth II made her first Instagram post from London's Science Museum. The Queen is a long time supporter of digital communication tools and made her first Tweet in 2014 ...
Global Collaboration with Common Sense Education
Our February and March ISTE focus is on Global Collaborator! This standard calls students to collaborate both locally (within their own classroom context), as well as beyond. Using technology to access and share information, students will learn from diverse perspectives and work on complex problems with peers. In response to this ISTE standard, Common ...
Using Seesaw’s QR Code Feature To Create Interactive Displays
Did you know that every post created in Seesaw can have a QR code generated that can be printed and displayed as part of an interactive classroom bulletin board or hallway display? Basically, Seesaw posts can be printed with a QR code that then can be scanned to hear or see a recorded message about ...
The Fine Art of Conversations In Teams
One of the things that makes Teams great is the ability to have conversations around the various files and documents shared to a channel. You can just post messages (great for questions or brainstorming) or you can add files and build conversations around those files. Files uploaded are automatically added to the Files tab in ...
Teacher Feature: Breakout with Kristi Hafferty
Some of you may already know about our Ed Tech Library's kit for Breakout Edu. Breakout EDU is a collection of locks, boxes, and materials that can be used to play an immersive learning game. Breakout brings alive the four C's, communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity. We have four kits available, they come to your ...
Ed Tech Library: BreakoutEDU
Breakout EDU takes the idea of an escape room into the classroom! Students solve clues to unlock physical locks from a case to "breakout." Our Ed Tech Library has four games this year to choose from. The Breakout EDU kits available in February and March from our Ed Tech Library feature a growth mindset game called ...
Seesaw Wow Work: Giving Students Choice and Voice
Learning is not a passive process. Teachers cannot assume they will have each students' attention all the time simply by standing in the front of the room and talking. Having engaging visuals and interactive elements within a lesson can help to keep students interested, but to be an effective teacher, we need to help our ...
Make Your Own Seesaw Activities Look Awesome With Activity Icon Shortcuts
Seesaw Activities Library has taken off like crazy. There are so many activities to choose from by grade level and content area. And you can take those activities and edit them as your own or even start from scratch something that goes perfectly with what your students learning. But how do those pre-made activities get ...