Using Seesaw: The Learning Journal for Learning and Teaching Process

For the English teachers have you ever felt confused to find a medium of learning for the students to keep students interested in learning English? For that, I would like to recommend a medium called Seesaw: The Learning Journal. For more details here is the explanation about Seesaw.

Seesaw is a student-driven digital portfolio that empowers students of all ages to independently document and share what they are
learning at school. Furthermore, seesaw can help the teaching process in the classroom or outside the classroom.
Nowadays, the technology era adolescence, of course, had been familiar with various social media. So, I want to familiarize
students using this application as a means of social media that is useful at the same time can be used in learning and learning process.
So that, students can be free to use it but still in the teacher’s rules with using a polite language.

In this medium, students can learn from a variety of existing features such as photos, videos, notes, and links. 

A.    Photos:
this features can be used to upload photos of students work, even it is pairs,
groups, or individual. These features students can like and comment about their
work in the same times like a social media that they used to do. The advantage
in this feature, the students can enjoy with their language and also the teacher
monitoring the comment itself.

B.     Video:
this is use to making a video that relate to the material of their study, this
is a way to the introvert student trying to speak up and confident. Beside that
students can increase their speaking with

C.     Note:
features that use to increase their ability in writing skill which is they can
write and develop many ideas in the story that they write by their own. 

D.    Links: here is the teacher can giving the students a link for resources like https://www.ted.com/ and so on.
To use this seesaw medium, first, students and teachers must download Seesaw: The Learning Journal on Google Play store.
Then both teachers and students must have a Gmail to log in. And for students who want to join the classroom,
the student must have a code or a coded scan (QR). Because it has a variety of features, this media are suitable for improving 
student skills in listening, writing, reading, and speaking.












In addition, to be used by students, this medium also can be used by parents so they can monitor their child's development in the
learning process. Moreover, there are features that existed above, this media also features drawing and recording.
Where the drawing features can develop student talent or potential in these features. Students can draw it wherever and whenever they are.
And for recording features, the introvert students can train their confidence by recording their own voice. When finished learning,
students can reflect on what lessons they have learned in school.

More details check the description on:

Youtube: https://youtu.be/C_JD3cfD_lk