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Introducing Digital Portfolios to Speech & Language Students

Description: 

Introducing Seesaw App to third grade students in speech therapy

Learning Targets: 
To introduce an app called Seesaw as a student driven digital portfolio to share work with parents.
Students will create their first posts, which includes taking a picture of their “All About Me” written paragraph about themselves, and recording a video of themselves reading the paragraph.
Link: 
Introducing Digital Portfolios to Speech & Language students
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TJPiEkX2yat4wyzirOmcwVbhYZMzjBPzmzw8s9KSQPM/edit
Author: 
LaNae.Williams
Content Area: 
Language Arts
Speaking and Listening
Language: 
English
Resource Type: 
Lesson
Grade: 
K-5
Common Core Language Arts
Common Core Language Arts: 
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.3.4
Tags: 
digital portfolio
Communication
Speaking
Articulation
Parent
Listening
Ipads

What concepts or procedures are being explained or demonstrated in this lesson object?

Materials/Resources:

  1. Ipads
  2. Classroom QR code (tutorial)
  3. Seesaw app, a student driven digital portfolio
  4. “All About Me” paragraph, completed by students in advance
  5. Seesaw Help Center

Introduction/Warm-Up:

  1. Discuss what Seesaw is all about to students  an app, a place to share either speech progress, activities and homework.

Procedure/Activities:

  1. Practice logging into the Seesaw App/using the QR class code to get into the app
  2. Take a picture of the paragraph and submit by placing into their folder
  3. Film themselves reading their “All About Me” page
  4. Students watch their video to make sure it looks/sounds adequate and submit to their folder
  5. I approve their submissions on my computer and show the students their feed
  6. Each student chooses their own picture icon from my computer
  7. Show the students how I can “like” and add a comment to their post to show how their parents will be able to see their work.

Lesson Conclusion/Summary:

Review the process of using Seesaw and summarize how we logged in, took a picture of the paragraph, uploaded a video of the readings, and submitted the work to their folder.

Assessment: Formative /Summative

The students learned the process of how to access the app, scan the QR code, and upload their work into the correct personal folder.

Follow-Up Lesson(s):

Students will independently do each step to access the Seesaw app, scan the QR code and upload their work to their personal folder.  Different methods can be done next time, such as drawing or adding a note.

Additional speech lesson(s) using Seesaw:

  1. Each student can take a photo of three picture cards (from speech therapist’s own materials) with their speech sound (e.g. R or S picture cards) by setting the picture cards onto a pre-made template that details what the homework assignment is for the week. The student will upload the photo in Seesaw.
  2. The students could then record the way they say each word in the activity above in #1 with good articulation skills by using the microphone feature in Seesaw..
  3. Each student can upload a video of he/she saying 2-3 of their practice words in a sentence.
  4. Each student can write 3-4 sentences using their speech words on a separate piece of paper, take a photo of the sentences in Seesaw, then use the draw feature to circle the speech sounds (e.g. R or S).

What was your experience, both successes and challenges, using this lesson object with your students?

  • Some groups move at a faster pace than others, depending on learning styles and number of students.  
  • It is beneficial to have more than one Ipad, or work with a limited number of students in a group (2-3).
  • Most of the students are very comfortable with the technology, using the Ipads, and quickly show independence completing the lesson.