1. OTS Highlights
Have you checked out some of the latest PLT opportunities in OTS? Here are just a few we are especially excited about, but we encourage you to view the catalog to find one just right for you!October 8- Seesaw for Special Area Teachers
October 10- (will be posted in OTS soon) Save the date- Power Teacher Pro for elementary teachers- using the gradebook features to help save you time during progress reporting, and to provide up-to-date data for Child Study meetings, data meetings, and more!
2. PSD Key
If you are having trouble with a single sign on app that had worked previously but your password changed, please consider right clicking the app in question and choose update password. From there you are able to edit the passwords stored.
This is very common for apps such as EPIC, which require a different code each year. For these apps, students need to right click the app, choose "update password" and then "edit" to change the code to the new one. Then the single sign on will work seamlessly.
3. Seesaw Spotlight
As of Friday, September 20, we have over 2,600 families connected in Seesaw! We are thrilled with this data and we thank you for your continued support of Seesaw. At this point, if you have any families not connected, we encourage you to send them an email invite through Seesaw and/or reach out personally. If a family has any reservations about joining, perhaps you can ease their mind about what Seesaw is and what it can do for our learners.September has been a great month in Seesaw and we have seen many teachers getting "their feet wet" by sharing pictures of students, homework assignments, newsletters, and more! Please remember when posting more than one student in a picture that all families have agreed to and signed the Pennridge media release form. If you are unsure, the safest bet at this time is using photos with only 1 student portrayed. We have also put out reminders to parents to be sure not to share photos with more than their child portrayed on social media such as Twitter and Facebook.
For a new Seesaw user- A good goal for October is getting your students to post to their journal. Again, we encourage starting small with one Seesaw tool at a time and building on. We would love to help you and your students with that. In the month of September, with 18 days down, I was able to teach 19 student Seesaw lessons to a variety of grade levels. My personal goal for October is to teach at least 1 Seesaw lesson with students per day (or another 20 lessons). This could be whole group or during station rotations- whatever works for you! Help me reach my goal! :) -Erin
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Here is an example of how one student took a picture of their learning and posted to his/her journal in one of our kindergarten classrooms.
Another great post we saw upper elementary students complete was from the Activity Library. In this activity, students not only talk about things they love, but they also get to know the many tools of Seesaw- especially drawing and text.