Our 2nd Graders have been studying 2 dimensional shapes. Second grade teacher, Mrs. Quaal, asked for my help to create an activity that would allow students to take a photo of shapes in their classroom, draw the shape on top of the image, and record themselves identifying each shape and its defining elements. Essentially they created a series of screencasts, one for each shape. We used one of Seesaw's newer features, Add Page in order to create this series.
To accomplish it, students followed the steps from an activity that I created so we could easily remember each step.
Though it was helpful to see the documentation from the steps, we streamlined it on Mrs. Quaal's whiteboard to help students remember where they were in the steps.
Because Mrs. Quaal's students were accustom to using Seesaw, they managed this multistep activity quite well.
Check out this example of a single screencast from a series that the student created.
I learned a great deal from this lesson. I loved watching how engaged and independent the students were in demonstrating their learning. I also realized a few minutes into the lesson that I needed to be clearer about how students should delete an image so they wouldn't delete all of the pages of their project. Once I realized that this was an issue, I quickly circled back around and added this step for students:
Caution - If you don't like your image, do no click the trash can in the upper left or it will delete all pages of your project! Use theattached to the image to delete the image with the trash can.
Now that we have worked out the kinks, this activity is a great template for students to screencast their future learning with Seesaw.