Jamboard

Google Jamboard is an interactive whiteboard tool that is fabulous for creating engaging content for students. Students love the sticky notes! BEST of all, it is a fabulous collaborative tool.

There are additional features that only work on mobile devices/tablets/iPads, so be sure that you also install the app on your mobile devices.

Introduction to Google Jamboard

How to add G.Drive files to Jamboard (a fabulous feature that is currently available via iPad/tablet, mobile device... not chromebook or laptop version)

Getting familiar with Jamboard

Click here to access a Jamboard allowing you or your students to play around with the different features Jamboard has to offer.

Social Studies Samurai has some templates and examples that may be helpful to get you started in the classroom with Jamboard.

Jamboard examples

Used for annotating, labelling, brainstorming, demonstrating, linking concepts.... and so much more! Jamboard can be used by students at all levels within our kura.

A great way to use Jamboard is to use the Set Background option and choose your own image to upload. Create a graphic organiser in Canva, download it as an image and use that as the background. The background can not be moved by the students and you can then add manipulable items (sticky notes, text, images) on top for students to drag to the right places.

Ideas for this include:

a. Sorting ideas into paragraphs or like ideas,

b. Drag and drop items to the right place within a table or graphic organiser,

c. Draw lines to match items,

d. Sequence ideas on a map,

e. Use the right word to fill in the gap on a sentence,

f. Colouring the right amount of items or fraction,

g. Circling the right answer with the pen tool.

Another great way to use Jamboard is to add in images of maths manipulables for the students to be able to move around on the screen, draw on, duplicate or delete as they need for the problems they are working on.

Teacher training

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