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Tech Monthly PD- Jamboard

March Tech PD

Jessica Smith- Instructional Coach

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Agenda

  • What, How & Why?
  • Tools, Tools, Tools
  • How to collaborate with Jamboard
  • Tips & Tricks
  • Jamboard Inspiration
  • Let’s Practice
  • Attendance Form for Completion
    • Read through the entire presentation and complete the task before completing the attendance form.

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What, How, & Why?

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What is Jamboard?

Jamboard is a collaborative online whiteboard. It gives students lots of creative work space.

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Why Jamboard?

Whiteboards and chalkboards have been a fixture in classrooms for ages. They're great for gathering ideas and making thinking visible.

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But there are drawbacks ...

  • Having to write "DON'T ERASE!" next to important stuff
  • Taking pictures of the whiteboard with your cell phone
  • Markers drying up or running out of ink
  • Having only so much whiteboard space in your classroom

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How to find Jamboard?

  • Go to jamboard.google.com OR
  • Go to Google Waffle and scroll down to find Jamboard
  • You can download the Jamboard app for Android or iOS (Apple) mobile devices.
  • When you open Jamboard, you'll see all of the recent jams you've opened. You can click the + button in the bottom right to create a new jam.

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Tools, Tools, Tools

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Jamboard Tools

  1. Draw: Use a pen, marker, highlighter or brush. You can draw from pre-determined colors.
  2. Eraser: Erase something you've drawn.
  3. Select: Choose and adjust a shape, sticky note, image, text box.
  4. Sticky note: Add a sticky note with text. You can choose from several colors.
  5. Image: Add an image from your device, image search, Google Drive or Photos.
  6. Shapes: Add a circle, square, triangle, diamond, rounded rectangle, half circle, bar or arrow. Choose border color and fill color from the menu bar at the top of the jam.
  7. Text box: Add a box where you can type and format text.
  8. Laser: Use a pointer to emphasize and highlight certain items on the screen when presenting ideas to others.
  9. Background: Choose from dots, lines, graph, or dark colors.
  10. Clear frame: Wipe everything off your frame with one click. (Undo if it was a mistake!)
  11. Frame bar: See all of your frames in one place. Add new frames, duplicate or delete.
  12. Menu: From here, you can rename your jam, download it as a PDF, save a frame as an image, remove, or make a copy your jam.

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Jamboard Tools

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Watch this 9 minute video on the most up to date information on Google Jamboard.

Click the video or use this link: https://youtu.be/Cc6_HoTGAL8

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How to collaborate with Jamboard

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Student Collaboration

  • Jamboard is made for collaboration! You can also share your jams just like you'd share a document or slide presentation. Click the "Share" button and share with individuals and groups or create a shareable link.
  • Students can interact in jams in lots of ways:
    • Students can brainstorm and create in small groups face to face on one device.
    • Share an "everyone can edit" link with students in Google Classroom for whole-class collaboration.
    • In remote or online settings, students can work together in small groups in the same jam.
    • In lots of the ideas below, you can add a layer of collaboration by giving students an "anyone can edit" link.

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Tips & Tricks

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  • Control D to duplicate
  • Make jams available to students or co-workers via Google classroom
  • Use templates to get started
  • You must set your Jamboards to allow EDITING for students to be able to add sticky notes, add their own text or etc.
  • If you have have pieces you don’t want students to move/delete, add a text box tool and stretch it over the entire slide.
    • Be sure to bring your moveable pieces to the front OR create your moveable pieces after you create the transparent label

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3 Ways to use Jamboard

White Board

Class/Group Collaboration

Independent Work

  • Screen share during live session or screen recording a lesson
  • Model a Task
  • No need to share the Jamboard link to students if you are using it as a teacher whiteboard
  • All students collaborate and interact in one Jam
  • Need to share the Jam link with students
  • Remember: Share setting must be “anyone with the link can edit”
  • Assign independent Jams through Google Classroom
  • Make a copy for each student

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Jamboard Inspiration

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Red, Yellow, Green

Learning Pit

Brainstorming

Timeline

Fist to Five

Kindness

*Click images for your own copy of these templates*

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Compare & Contrast

Counting Money

Word Work

Making Words

Cause & Effect

Rainbow Drawing

*Click images for your own copy of these templates*

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Additional Resources

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  • I used this link for a lot of the information in this slide show. Go here to see 20 ideas for using Jamboard in class (+ FREE templates!)

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Let’s Practice...

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Here is our Practice Jamboard… click on the link below to complete a few practice tasks!

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https://jamboard.google.com/d/1zzhGZwzEVj7ofG0kNx0AlN1fiPHLTm1pYFd6EBAI29I/edit?usp=sharing

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Attendance Form

  • Please complete this Google Form for record of you attendance and completion of this PD.

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Hope you enjoyed this presentation!