In this video, I'm going to show you some different ways that you can use Google
Jamboard for remote teaching. Google Jamboard is a tool that can help make your
remote teaching more interactive and it can be used in either synchronous or
asynchronous learning. In this video, I'm going to show you the most important
features you need to know about how to use Google Jamboard, then I'll show you
a few different ways you can use it with your students and especially if you're a
Math teacher, I think you're really going to find this program useful. My name is
Sam Kary and this is my YouTube channel for The New EdTech Classroom. You can
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video updates. Alright let's jump in and first take a look at the major features
of Google Jamboard. On the Google Jamboard homepage, you'll be able to see all
the previous Jams you created in the past. To create a new Jam, go to the
bottom right hand corner and select the 'Add' button. Then you can give your
Jamboard a name. Then at the top, you'll see that there's an option to change the
background of your Jamboard. It can either be blank
or dotted lines, it could look like lined paper or graph paper, or you could add
different colors to the background. On the left hand side, you'll see the
different options that you have for how to interact with the Jamboard. The first
tool is the pen tool. Here you'll see you have some different types of pens, as
well as different colors that you can use in order to handwrite text on the
interactive whiteboard. So here for this demo I'm just going to add my name to
the top. Below the pen tool is an eraser tool, so you can see here how I'm able to
erase the text that I wrote. And now I'm just gonna go back and choose a
different pen type and color so that you can also see what that would look like.
Below the eraser is the Select tool and we'll look at that in a second when we
actually add selectable items to the Jamboard. Below the Select tool is the
sticky note tool. Here you can choose from different colors for your sticky
note, as well as add some text. And then after you've added that sticky note
you'll see that you can drag it around wherever you'd like, resize it, as well as
change the orientation of the sticky note. If you choose the
three dots next to the sticky note, one option will be to duplicate that sticky
note, which will just create an exact replica of what you just made. Beneath
the sticky note is a place where you can add some different images. So here you
have the full array of different options for images that you could bring in. You
can either search for them on Google, you can upload images that you already have
on your computer, or images that you have in your Google Photos folder. Just like
the sticky note, you can also resize the image, drag it around wherever you want,
as well as change the orientation, and you can also duplicate that image if
you'd like. And then there's also a laser tool that you can use just to point to
different places on your screen. Although unfortunately right now Google Jamboard
does not allow you to embed video files, one way you can get different types of
files into your Google Jamboard is with Google Chrome extensions. So for example
you could install the free Giphy extension, find a Giphy that you want, and
then drag and drop it into Google Jamboard. Similarly if you're a Bitmoji
user like me, you can also drag and drop your Bitmoji into Google Jamboard to
make it a little bit more fun and interesting. At the top you'll notice
that if you click on the 'Next' arrow, it will continue to add new frames to your
Jamboard, which are essentially just new whiteboard panels that you're adding. On
the menu at the top, you'll notice that you can download this Jamboard as a PDF.
You also have the option to download it as an image file and I'm going to show
you later how you might use that with students.
Right now I'm the only one that's able to edit the Jamboard. One way you could
use it without actually sharing it with students is to just share your screen
during a synchronous video conference call and then do some modeling of
instruction with the Jamboard. But really the purpose of using Google
Jamboard is to use it to be an interactive tool that students could add to as well.
So to share this with students you'll go to the blue 'Share' button. There you can
enter an individual student's name. If you want the student to actually be able to
write directly on the Jamboard or if you want another teacher to be able to
write on it, you will need to give them editing access. Another option for how
you could share the Google Jamboard with an entire class
would be to go down to 'Get Link,' and then change the restricted access so that
anyone who is given the link is able to get in. You're still going to need to
change it from viewer to editor if you want everyone who clicks on that link to
be able to interact with the whiteboard. And then once you've changed that
setting, you could copy the link and either put it in Google Classroom, drop
it in the chat of a Zoom or Google Meet meeting, or share it in another learning
management system that you use. All right for this part of the video I'm going to
show you a side-by-side demonstration of Google Jamboard, so that you can see
what it looks like when two different people are interacting on the same board.
So you'll notice for example that if someone uses the laser tool that that
will also show up with just a slight delay on the other screen. Similarly if
the teacher adds a sticky note, the sticky note will then show up on the
student's Jamboard as well. And you'll notice here that if both people have
editing access, they're both able to interact with the Jamboard in the same
way. So both people, for example, would be able to drag the sticky notes around and
put them wherever they want. In my opinion this is a little bit frustrating.
I do wish that I had the ability to lock what I had done on my screen as the
teacher, so that students were not able to edit or alter what I had done. So just
to show you another example of how that full editing access could be potentially
a problem, you can see here how a student would conceivably be able to even erase
something that I had written on my Jamboard. So there are a few ways you could
deal with this. The first that's probably the best educator move, is to use this
opportunity to teach some digital citizenship skills and talk about some
norms and expectations when using Google Jamboard. If a student were to continue
to do things that they weren't supposed to do, like erasing text or adding
things that they shouldn't be adding, one option would be to change their access
to 'View Only.' So you'll notice here that if I change the access from Editor to
Viewer, that the menu board on the other Google Jamboard goes away and that that
student is now only allowed viewer access. Once you were ready to give that
student editing access again, you could go back and change the permissions back
to Editor. Obviously the downside of being in View Only
mode is that it kind of defeats the purpose of using Google Jamboard if
students are not able to interact with it. But if you're going to use Google
Jamboard to first demo a mini lesson, it might not be a bad idea to restrict
students to View Only, and then when you want them to be able to have editing
access again, just quickly change that back to Editor. All right now I'm going
to show you a few different ideas for how you might use Google Jamboard
during remote teaching. All these ideas could be used if students were all
together on a video conference or it could also happen asynchronously if
students needed to be doing the work independently. The first idea is that you
would use it as a preview activity in the beginning of a lesson. So here, for
example, you could create a sticky note where you ask students to record their
observations, then you could add an image that you want students to observe. On the
student end, they could add their own sticky note, to make observations about
what they're seeing. One of the things that I love about these live interactive
tools is that it can still help students feel like they're part of a class
community because they're going to be seeing all their classmates posting
their answers live at the same time. In addition to a preview activity where
students make observations, you could also use images to have students make
predictions or inferences. So here, for example, I could use this same image of
the pyramid, but ask students to make a prediction or an inference about how
they believed that the pyramids were built. Then just like the last example,
students could add a sticky note to answer the question. As opposed to text,
you could also have students answer questions by posting their own images. So
here, for example, you might start the day by having students post a different
image about how they're feeling. Then students could go look in Google Images
themselves to find an image that they want to post. Similarly, as a summative
activity, you could also have students post an image and a caption that
represents something important that they learn throughout the week. So let's say it
were a student who had just learned about the importance of agriculture in my
Ancient Civilizations class. They might pick an image of agriculture, as well as
write a short explanation about what they learned about farming and
why it was important, throughout that week. Since I'm not a math teacher, I tend
not to show a lot of math based content, but I actually think that Google
Jamboard could be a really powerful tool for a math teacher. So here I'm going to
show you how you could pair a Google Jamboard with a Google Chrome extension
called EquatIO. If you're a math teacher and you haven't yet used EquatIO, I
would definitely recommend checking it out. All the math teachers that I know
absolutely love using it. So in order to use the EquatIO extension, you're going
to need to go to a Google Doc first. When you click on EquatIO, you'll see that
it pulls up a menu bar at the bottom of your Google Doc, where you have some
different ways that you could input a math problem. For example, there's a
microphone where you could actually speak the problem and it will transcribe
it for you, or you can use this pretty cool handwriting tool where you can
handwrite a math equation that you're looking for and it will interpret your
handwriting and create an image out of it. Once EquatIO has generated the
image of the math problem, you can copy and paste it back into your Google
Jamboard. So here you can see I'm going to change the background to graph paper and
then I'll paste the equation in. This would be a great way to model how to do
a math problem in front of your students and then you could also have students
solve the problem on their own. One way to manage this would be to have students
all be working on the same panel. Another option is that you could create and
label different panels that would be designated for particular students. Here
again you would obviously need to have a discussion about digital citizenship to
ensure that students were using their correct page because they would have
editing access to everybody else's pages as well. Then you could just copy and
paste the problem or many problems on to individual students' work pages and then
students could use the different tools to show their work directly on the page.
So if you were doing synchronous learning here, you could jump on to a
student's panel to check out how they were doing their work and if they were
making some mistakes, you could give them immediate real-time feedback. Of course
you could also give students access and then they could get into the document
and do their work in an asynchronous environment as well. And then one way you
hold students accountable for the work that they did is by having them save the
panel as an image, then they could take that image and actually upload it back
into Google Classroom as an assignment. Of course, if you were really concerned
about students writing over each other's pages, another thing you could do would
be to create a separate Jamboard for individual students and then different
panels could represent different assignments that you're assigning
throughout the week or throughout a unit. I hope this video helped you learn how
to use Google Jamboard to make your remote teaching just a little bit more
interactive and engaging. If you have any questions about how I've used Google
Jamboard with my students or suggestions about how you might use it, please
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