Jamboard

Classroom tool by Hannah Ploof

How I use it

In my class, I use jamboard mostly for classroom collaboration. My school has been
hybrid for most of the year (with a few months of virtual learning and now full in person)
and so half of my class has been at home while the other half has been in person.
Jamboard allows them to work together and answer the same questions on the same
platform.
We will also go back to the same jamboard throughout our unit to revisit our earlier
thinking and add more. Jamboard has been a great place to hold our thinking over the unit
How you could use it

- Classroom collaboration/discussions
- Group work
- Assessments (through google classroom can give each student their own copy of the
same jamboard)
- Model drawing (common in my school/science classes)
- Building classroom culture
- Give a space for students to share non-verbally
- Collecting what you have learned through a unit
Problems with Jamboard
- Previously, there was no button to see previous edits, like there is with most google
apps. This had made it difficult because students would occasionally ruin the classes
Jamboard. Thankfully google fixed this issue and you now can go through edits and
restore to a previous version so you don’t have them ruining it
Pros of Jamboard

- Super easy to use! Students are able to be introduced to it and then use it immediately
- Can do lots of different things with it. Can add sticky notes, images, text boxes,
drawings, shapes, change the background, etc.
- Can use it as a place for the class to collaborate, or students can use it individually, or
in groups
- Posts are anonymous (but can now see in version history) so students can participate
without fear of it being tied to them
- Can easily see how many students are on it and which slide they are on
Whole class examples

Some stickys are smaller because we answered those

questions
Group work examples