What's going on?
Teachers, educators, anyone and everyone is welcome to check out
these five FigJam must knows.
In order to implement this tool successfully, this
school year, coming at you.
Number one, you're gonna have to know how to use stickies after that.
We're gonna talk about how to use shapes and FigJam, followed by
how to use the stamps and emotes.
We're then gonna talk about the marker and we're gonna finish it out with a
wonderful time talking about our timer.
So again, these are five FigJam, must nose to use this tool successfully.
Let's go.
The first thing you're going to want to know how to use are the sticky notes.
Go down here into our doc and you're gonna grab a sticky note.
You can just click and drag it in.
You can change the color of that sticky note.
I'm gonna go with this nice blue here.
You can type in your text.
Let's say I'm just add my name.
You can also highlight that text.
You can change it size, you can change it.
To be a small, I would recommend students not using anything too large,
cuz it gets pretty big, pretty quick.
We have four fonts for students to choose from.
We don't wanna flood them with too many options.
And then you can also go ahead and bold things.
Strike it through.
You can add different bullet points.
You can link things here.
You can also have students turn off and on their authorship to make sure they're
getting credit for the work they're doing.
Number two, shapes.
Shapes are a fantastic place for students.
If they're working on mind mapping or brainstorming, just trying to get their
ideas out and about onto the canvas.
This is a great space for them to get organized.
So to bring a shape into your canvas, go down here and drag a shape in.
You can have whatever starting shape you'd like.
You can also have it be whatever color you'd like.
Let's start with this purple.
Wonderful.
When I click on a shape, you're gonna see that I'm gonna have these little.
Blue dots that appear.
This is so that you can add another connected shape, an arrow will appear.
I can add this in.
I can maybe change the color.
I can also add text into that shape.
And in between my arrows I can add text as well, which is pretty nice.
So this is a feature that I love and other applications really hard to get
students to do mind mapping or to kind of create these different processes
visually, but in FigJam, super easy.
Number three.
This is my favorite feature, which is stamps and emotes.
To get to the stamps and emotes, you're gonna head on down to
the stamp icon right here.
A stamp is a great space for students to go ahead and share their
thoughts for teachers and staff to go ahead and add their opinions
onto different spaces of the canvas.
As the educator or whoever it may be in this file, you can
then click on the stamps and see who the author of that stamp is.
To get to emotes, you're gonna again go down here to the stamp icon
and go to the icon with the face.
You can then add your in realtime reactions to things as your group
or your peers are working on stuff, and that folks is stamps and emotes.
Number four.
This is an absolute student favorite.
The marker tool to get to the marker tool, go down over here,
you're gonna click on this marker.
You can change it to be whatever color you'd like, and you can add some wonderful
different things to your drawings.
This is great for annotating, for underlining working in documents.
You can go ahead and change the thickness here.
You can add a whole bunch of different colors and the marker tool's.
Great.
Also, paired with a nice highlighter here, so the highlighter.
Fantastic spot if you're going to try to make some different
markings on your canvas or really want some of those colors to pop.
So that is the marker and the highlighter.
Last but not least, number five.
This is the timer, which is actually more than just a timer.
I know that students really wanna stay on track and teachers really
don't wanna talk all that much.
So you can add a timer here to make sure your lessons are on pace.
Hit the play button, and if you're like, you know what?
I do have the world's most important thing left to say, and you want one more minute?
Give yourself one more minute.
If you want students to be able to focus in a FigJam and put on some music,
there's some incredible music here.
You can play that record and students can really get focused
in on what they're doing.
Another great feature in this section is the voting feature.
So if you want students to really vote on something, not just use the stamps
to add their thoughts, but you actually wanna take a vote, make a vote, you
can go ahead and start that vote.
The voting session will begin.
Students can add their votes.
You can end that session for all, and the votes will appear.
That is the timer, folks, and it really is a wonderful time.
That wraps it up with the Five Must Knows for FigJam to be
successful this school year.
Please let me know in the comments if I missed anything or if there's
anything else you'd like to see.
Again, my name is David.
Have a great year.
Happy jamming.