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Seesaw Blog

 This post is a guest post from Penny Whyte, Kindergarten Teacher!

Have you wondered how to keep students connected to each other during  virtual learning? If you have a Seesaw classroom, adding the blog option might just be what you are looking for. Students can post material onto the blog and comment  on each other's posts using text or voice. All posts and comments require teacher approval before they appear on the blog.

Some of the ways I used the blog with my Kindergarten class during quarantine were:

  • Students shared pictures of activities I had assigned as lessons  (reading forts, sidewalk writing)  or just our best silly faces or pictures of our pets.
  • Playing I Spy, (Each student took a picture of an area where they had hid something of the color of the day.  Students then comment back and forth about where the hidden item was.)
  • Sending birthday greeting and other messages to friends
  • Show and tell

To set up your blog is very simple.  Seesaw has several tutorials available including  Blogging with Seesaw and Seesaw Blog Mini-training.

  1. Tap on the wrench in the top right corner of your Seesaw page and scroll down to class blog.
  2. Slide the enable blog button and tap on create a blog.
  3. Now you need to create a name for your blog.  Then add that name to the end of the URL sting in the box below the name. Tap  the green check mark to enable the blog. 
  4. You will now be on blog settings.  Enable comments by sliding the button over to green.
  5. Select password protect if you want to control who sees your blog.  Create a password.  Students in your classroom are automatically enabled in blog and do not need to use the password.
  6. Tap the green check mark and your blog is published!  You will now see a globe icon on your seesaw page next to the journal, activities and inbox icons.

Now you and your  students are all set to add materials to the class blog.  This is done by just tapping the globe icon.  All post and comments will come to the teacher for approval before going live on the blog.

The Seesaw blog is an easy and fun way to introduce students to blogging and digital citizenship, while allowing them to stay connected to classmates.  I hope you try it out and feel free to contact me with any questions.


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