Minnewasta School in Morden has been using the app/program called 'SeeSaw' to learn and showcase their work.

"SeeSaw is a program that you can upload things and it's a bit like Facebook, because your parents can like it and encourage you. Someone can also record you reading, take pictures, you can write comments or take audio comments. -- It's really fun," said grade three student Alia Kreiser. "The teachers have to approve your post, so you aren't taking pictures of everything and then posting it."

As Kreiser noted it's similar to Facebook and the app creates a personal portfolio for each of the students, and allows them to showoff their work to their parents.

"It allows the parents to see a lot more diverse learning that is going on in the classroom that you don't always see through a paper portfolio that we send home," said teacher Marcie Robertson. "They can hear their child reading, they can see their bigger projects that you normally wouldn't be able to send home. Then again like Alia said, they can comment and encourage their children that way."

Overall Robertson stated this program has received tremendous reviews from the parents, and added each parent can only their child's profile and work, unless there are other group assignments made public for everyone to see.

The classes have been using the app for a number of reasons. One class has been using it for the portfolio/profile segment and the other was part of the read aloud program, which allowed them to use SeeSaw and connect with a class from Ohio.

"This year my class was part of the Global Read Aloud," shared teacher Heather Boulet. "This is an international thing. I connected with a class in Ohio and we decided to use SeeSaw as a way to connect. SeeSaw has a part of it that you can use as a blog. So, everything they did that related to the BFG (the 'Big Friendly Giant' book they were reading) we put to our blog. The blog was completely private and the only people that could get onto it was people that had the password. So, I had their password and their teacher had our password, otherwise nobody had access to it."

According to the students this provided them with an opportunity to post pictures, videos, and audio segments of them working on projects, and the students in Ohio were able to see what they were doing, ask questions, and comment on the work they had completed.

"They could comment and could see all of our work on the BFG," said grade three student Valeria Biz.

Grade three student Alia Kreiser and teacher Marcie Robertson