Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Digital Playground ~ Exploring Stations & SeeSaw

Planning for our Digital Playground Sessions at Powdersville Elementary is always both challenging and exciting because it pushes me to find top quality creation tools that can be shared with teachers in an engaging way! With many teachers expressing a desire to learn more about the SeeSaw App and the new blog feature, I thought it would be beneficial for teachers to experience the app from a student perspective.

For this session, I set up a "class" in SeeSaw for my teachers and turned on the blog feature. Then, I worked with iTeachers to create a variety of stations designed to allow teachers to explore, create, and post to the SeeSaw App. We closed the afternoon, with time to set up teacher accounts and investigate how the SeeSaw blog feature can be used in the classroom.



Each of the slides above were printed and placed throughout the library along with an instruction poster from SeeSaw. Teachers were able to choose stations freely and rotate to new stations as they were ready. Check out our SeeSaw Blog page full of work created during this session! We also used the Typorama App to create images that express why we #LoveTeaching.



I really enjoyed being able to view teacher creations in the app while also interacting with teachers and answering questions. Teacher feedback was excellent, and many reported that they will be using the tools and ideas shared within the next week or two. Based on the positive feedback from teachers, this format may work really well for future Digital Playground Sessions.




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