1. Thank you for another successful 21st Century Learning Night!
We want to take the opportunity to thank all the students, teachers, and staff members that helped make 21st Century Learning Night a success again this year. It was truly a special evening celebrating innovative teaching this year. The 21st Century Learning Night Website has a summary of all the fascinating exhibits that presented.
For a short clip of pictures of the night, please click here!
2. Seesaw for Schools Feature - Scheduled Activities
One of the new features Seesaw allows is for you to schedule an activity for students to complete. Activities allow you to give clear instructions for students to work with, including a narration of your own voice reading the instructions and a step by step list of tasks using the Seesaw iconography they will have to click on. This way you can plan the activity ahead of time and have it automatically released to your students before they will start working on it.
Seesaw offers excellent professional develop and click-by-click instructions on how to use this and other features. For the activities library in general click here or for the scheduling feature click here.
If you are new to Seesaw, a general instructional guide to Seesaw created by Erin and Chris can be found here.
3. Guidelines for Implementing Instructional Activities
Designed by a fantastic group of Elementary teachers, this infographic was created to help teachers scaffold their lessons with the use of technology. Over the remainder of this year and next, we will incorporate these questions into the blog with some instructional strategies that demonstrate how these questions can guide instruction. This is a really important tool to be used when designing lessons and we hope it's helpful!
Note: the infographic will be printed and distributed for posting in classrooms in August, but if you would like to print one right now please choose 11x17 paper, which is the size that the graphic is formatted to.
More information regarding these guidelines with be forthcoming at the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year.
