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It's been a busy week uploading content onto the SeeSaw Accounts, but as the days have gone on the children have become much more fluid at using the QR codes to log in and then snapshotting and saving their work. One feature we've utilised the uploading our English and some of our Computing work on Minecraft is the Audio and Pen tool, where children have been able to annotate and talk through what they have done, or even amendments they are going to make, to create a 'video' to upload to their wall.
How could we do it?
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I then trialled it using my School iPad and the old iPhone (which I use as a Wifi device for photos etc in school). This way I can talk to one child, recording the discussion and leave them to upload while moving to the next child with the other device. This is not really any different to what you would do when skirting round the class providing feedback, only you have the problem of holding the camera still on their work while chatting!
You could just take a snapshot of a sample of work and use the audio and editing pen tool to work with the child and talk them through edits on the iPad together for 2 min, then leave them to upload that while moving on to the next child.
In an English session where I was feeding back to pupils, I attempted to get round to all the children in a 40min session. Getting to all proved to be impossible, but feel that you could get feedback to just over half the class if you were slick and used two devices, Even if you couldn't, after getting a flavour from your observations, you could create a quick checklist from those you saw to send out to the whole class, or targeted groups, as an aide memoire to recap at home ready for the next session.
You could just take a snapshot of a sample of work and use the audio and editing pen tool to work with the child and talk them through edits on the iPad together for 2 min, then leave them to upload that while moving on to the next child.
In an English session where I was feeding back to pupils, I attempted to get round to all the children in a 40min session. Getting to all proved to be impossible, but feel that you could get feedback to just over half the class if you were slick and used two devices, Even if you couldn't, after getting a flavour from your observations, you could create a quick checklist from those you saw to send out to the whole class, or targeted groups, as an aide memoire to recap at home ready for the next session.
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2) Pupil Upload
During a maths session I got the children to complete some work on the whiteboard cards I'd designed for the session, using a fraction wall, and asked the pupils to find equivalent fractions to 1/2 and 1/4. They did this successfully on their board on the whole and then were given the task of recording their findings and explaining what they had done using the SeeSaw recording tool. They could also just upload their work or practical session as a photo and comment on it to show they understood a concept. (or not if that was the case, but it lead to dialogue!)
The Slideshow below shows how to upload content to the classroom as a child user via the SeeSaw App. on the iPad.
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Pupils were also able to snapshot some of their work in Computing that had a Humanities cross-curricular element when working on the Anglo-Saxons and gave a running commentary on what they had done, how they had done it and WHY. This was great for determining how well they understand the reasoning behind what they are doing but also allows for assessment in that area. The audio clip also allows children to show what they know without the constraints of writing, which in the videos below, enabled a great level of explanation and discussion to be achieved that would not have happened if writing had taken it's place.
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The real acid test will be when you roll out to parents and get their viewpoints from it. What will parents make of it? One thing that is clear is it's capacity to store and share digital content as well as general classwork instantly. It also has the capacity to dramatically reduce paper consumption and waste by setting digitally recorded tasks that can be accessed for evidence.
I'm hoping to spend next week popping into specialist lessons and seeing how the app could be used to record class and pupil attainment using video and audio tools. Hopefully aspects such as PE, Music, Arabic and French will really benefit from it!
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I've had a passion for ICT and its use in education over a number of years. With the exciting development of Moble Technology entering the classroom, it's a perfect opportunity to try new things out and enhance our pupils, and teachers, experiences!
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