OCSB SummIT 2017

Descriptive Feedback, Learning Journals, and SeeSaw App

Session 1

How to introduce the value of meaningful feedback:

- opens dialogue for what kind of feedback is meaningful and descriptive

- gives tangible results that inspires solid comments

The Story of Austins Butterfly - video

- after watching the video discuss why give descriptive feedback - or any at all
- Give a checklist: I see...which makes me think of...I wonder what the writer thought

SeeSaw Learning App

- descriptive feedback = great comments, great comments lead to deeper learning

- Student shave their own journal and can add descriptions, writing, pictures etc.
- Accessible from ipads, the web, androids etc. - across all platforms
- Can be used by students as young as five
- When teachers approve new items, parents are automatically notified
- Parents can only see their students journal
- A digital portfolio that collects their work in one place
- Connects to google drive instantly
- Students can view and comment on each others posts in a way that is safe
- It is facebook for the classroom
- Closed, password protected
- Must obtain parental permission for any student image, work to be posted online before
using the app
- Everything has to be approved by the teacher - can reject anything inappropriate
- Builds school-home community
- Students have their own accounts within the class
- https://web.seesaw.me/
- https://app.seesaw.me/
- Students sign in with a OR code that you provide for them
- Can see in order everything that has been posted by the students on the main feed
- Can upload reference images, documents where they are doing their brainstorm
 - Can tell students - I need everyone to give two people feedback using the outline sheet
(for example)
- Students can use it to go to each other for advice, not just the teacher
- Can also look at just one students work, and the comments that student has given
others
- Students can use their own devices for this
- Can go to calendar view to see what was uploaded each day
- Can organize the material in the class into folders: based on subject or project/specific
assignments
- Can choose how students sign in : either through email or through a QR code
- Can enable it so that students cant like stuff and focus more on commenting
- Can also make it entirely closed (personal learning portfolio), so other students cant see
each others work
- Also have a class blog option (closed and secure)
- Can also archive classes at the end of the year
- Teacher can upload things from google drive to the seesaw app --- so parents and
students can see material from class, can add a voiceover to explain what they are
seeing and write directly on the image
- Once the class has been archived - students and parents can no longer access the
material
- Can also add co-teachers to the account
- Can save digital creations from many apps into Seesaw
- Evaluation took at end of assignment -- students go back over their file and write about
what they did, what the learning, what they didnt do enough of (reflect on the creative
process)
- FREE, there is a paid level but you dont need it
- Changes the connection between home and school. Instead of asking your child how
was your day, you can ask specific questions based on what is posted
- Parents would have to download the app and they would get a notification that the child
has posted something
- Students dont have to carry around feedback, rough work - in paper copy --- teacher
can just mark on the app
- Teacher gets notified every time a student posts something --- can comment on it and
see when the student is working at home, teacher can help if student is struggling on
their own with the topic at home in an easy way

Learning is APPtastic...Now Lets Assess!

Plickers
- A fun way to do a quiz
- www.plickers.com/
- A good alternative to having many chromebooks on the wifi
 - Students get cards, every shape is an answer a,b,c,d
- Good way to do an exit ticket at the end of the day
- Can print student cards small, or the whole page
- Free app available on iphone or android
- Informal assessment
- When you scan your phone over the cards it pops up green if they got it right, red if
wrong.so only the teacher sees who got it right and wrong
- Not everyone has to have their own device to do this - great for classes that do not have
access to tech all the time
- Helps all students participate without feeling self-conscious of answering
- When you scan it saves all the answers and then you can export it to your computer at
the end
- Each student has their own card, they turn it a certain way to answer (a,b,c,b) or yes/no
etc.
- You do have to get used to it, cant go back and change their answer - which is good
and bad
- Not used for big tests, just something quick
- Quick way to get data
- Put it on the student view, so students can only see who answered, but NOT who
answered which question (so it doesnt make them want to change their answer - that
would be graphing view)
- You can take your own time to answer, not rushed like other apps like kahoot --- also,
in Kahoot or other apps, kids look at each others screen
- Hold it so the letter you want to answer is at the top
- Hide the answer, because students might know each others card number and will guess
who got it wrong
- Can add images...if you wanted to take a screenshot of an image from EQAO (for
example), you can do it. It is like a google form.
- Can print the card any way you want - so that they are bigger.or write over the letter to
make it bigger for younger grades (because the app is scanning the shape, not the
letters).
- In kinder kids can decorate them, personalize
- Put them on cardstock and laminate.then turn the lights off to avoid the glare
- Can re-use questions as many times as you want -- they stockpile in your library

Kahoot
- Can be used from any device
- When you use kahoot for any assessment that you want to keep, you dont use the point
system
- Give the maximum time (minute and a half) - as soon as they know there is no point
system then they relax and take in the full learning experience
- Https://getkahoot.com
 - Jumble -- dont use if the wifi is not good, it relies heavily on the wifi and bogs it down
- Can find public kahoots, and just edit to make it your own
- Duplicate it so you can keep them in your account

ShowMe
- Best works on an Ipad, but can record on a chromebook
- www.showme.com/create
- Free
- Can create and share lessons, and switch to the flipped classroom model
- Can share with students, other educators etc.
- Can send students assignments, and mark
- An interactive whiteboard...can draw on it, record your voice

Ed Puzzle
- Can upload videos on youtube..can cut them...add questions to them
- Allows students to rewatch something as many times as they need to
- For flipped classroom model
- Easy way to mark -- tell the system which answers are right and it marks
- Tells you who has watched it and how many answers they got right
- Can also use EdPuzzles already created by other teachers and use those
- Can record your own voice with something
- Doesnt let students fast forward!! So they cant say they watched it when they really did
it
- Add questions so you can assess throughout if they understand what is going on
- Can;t keep going until they give an answer...can answer as many times as they want,
but teacher can see how many times, and which answers they changed
- www.edpuzzle.com
- They get a link to connect to the classroom

Fresh Grade
- To communicate how students are doing with the parents
- Parents can subscribe to their child
- They get emails when teacher uploads assignments, and marks
- Just because they get a mark on the app, doesnt mean it will be their mark in the
subject because it doesnt take into account observations etc.
- https://app.freshgrade.com
- Cant see anyone elses portfolio but your own
- Can add resources to the account (handouts etc). Then if students dont know how to
access them, parents can do it for them
 - Good to catch students who all of a sudden stop doing well -- parent sees it right away,
can book a meeting, student can get back on track sooner -- gives a little bit of
ownership to the parents

PlanBoard

- https://planboard.chalk.com/
- They also have a markboard available, if you want to keep your marks online
- Can set up your entire year
- Can add ideas, new units, quick notes of what you are doing that day to each day/block
- Is directly linked to the curriculum
- Can upload from your computer, google drive, or choose a template
- Can share it in case you are going to be away for the day
- Can go back and look at previous years gradebooks
- Can print your schedule
- Connected to the Ontario Teachers Federation
- Can save/export the information

Remind
- Can stay on top of students, send them a protected text

Differentiating Learning Tasks: Try Google Maps!

- Google Tone: so you can send out websites to your students without them having to
type any website in
- Geoguessr: guess where you are in the world, game
- Talking about your community, different ways to get to school - lets take a look on
google maps
- Biking section takes into account biking trails
- https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/---Googlehas25yearsofsatellite
imagery
- Toseetheimpacthumanityhashad---checkoutDubaiforexample.Lookat
satellite'sthenjumpdowntostreetviewandberightthere!
- Itisfascinatingtoseethechanges
- humanshavecreated
- naturehasrendered
- Findadramaticchange
- whatisit
- whatistheimpact
- howmightyouuseitinyourclass
 - Socialstudiesliterature-canbeused--thereisalwaysarealworldimpact
tobediscussed

- Can go on virtual field trips --- find it on google maps, and look at the pictures associated
with that location
- Yellow dot on google maps - you can see inside the building
- Can look at photos of the location from a different view by choosing the timeline --
pictures captured on different days --- especially good for older neighbourhoods where
you can see how the neighbourhood has changed over time --construction etc.
- Can see volcanoes, erosion, environmental impacts, glaciers/north pole and global
warming, clear cutting

- Measure distance, area for math lessons

- Can make a map yourself and then do what you want with it -- for a lesson
- Recordfeaturesofanarearelatedtohistoryorgeography
- Mapdiaryforafieldtrip,personalexperiences,etc.
- IntroductiontoMeproject
- Character(book,movieetc)mapjournal
- Visualizedatabyimportingtoamap
- EmbedacustommapintoaSlidesPresentation,GoogleSite,etc.
- Mymaps---typeintogoogletocreateyourownmap
- Atool(littleruler)inthemymapssectionwhereyoucanmeasuredistanceandarea---
howbigisourschool,howbigisyourhouse

- Canusebaselayerswithoutstreetsifyouaregoingbackinhistory--willstillbeacurrent
map...therearesomehistoricmapsoutthere

- Canputgoogleformsintomaps---showclasswherepeoplearefrom...dothisinmymaps
(addalayer)