Seesaw is the one-stop-shop creation, communication, and learning and can be used effectively whether you are in a 1:1, 1:4, or a blended learning environment. You’ll learn to use Seesaw to post assignments, collect learning, and give feedback. Seesaw enables teachers to create, modify, and share activities with colleagues to help students make their thinking visible and create meaningful artifacts of learning.
Primary (TK-2)
Classroom Dojo to Engage Kids and Connect with Families
Come and learn how to use Classroom Dojo with your students and parents. ClassDojo is an educational technology communication app and website. It connects primary school teachers, students, and families through communication features, such as a feed for photos and videos from the school day, and messaging that can be translated into more than 35 languages and has been used in 180 countries.
How to Connect and Support New Students and Families Virtually
As a primary teacher, your students’ families become your co-teachers in a virtual classroom. So, it’s important to not only connect with new students but also their families. In this session, we’re giving you creative activities and ideas to build up home buy-in, set expectations, and begin to build relationships. You’re going to leave this session with a plan for how you will communicate, connect and support your students to set them up for success and take all of the mystery, confusion, and overwhelm out of the equation.
Digital Citizenship for Little Learners
So many of our young students have not had opportunities to explore the world beyond their own schools and neighborhoods. As our youngest scholars become creators and participants in a larger learning community, it’s important that they have an awareness of the world around them! Let’s take a look at how to build geo awareness and global citizenship in our little learners, including in the digital world! In this session, we’ll look at resources and best practices for bringing the foundations of global awareness, global learning, and digital citizenship into our daily lessons. Highlighted tools will include Google MyMaps, Google Hangouts, and Common Sense Education.
Create Engaging Primary Lessons for Flexible Learning
Ready to save time creating primary lessons that will work for distance learning? In this session, you’re getting hands-on support to create lessons that will actually work for your classroom. Jamboard and Google Drawings are just two tools that will transform your lessons and help you infuse that interaction and engagement young learners need. In this hands-on make and take-style workshop, we’ll create lessons and activities your little learners can use right away.