Jamboard

What is Jamboard?

Jamboard is Google's interactive whiteboard application that easily provides a collaborate workspace known as "jams" that users can edit from any mobile device. Jam lesson templates can be created ahead of time and shared out to your students via Google Classroom as a collaborative assignment or as independent work. Users can draw on their jams with various pens and colors, post sticky-notes to brainstorm ideas, and bring ideas to life by inserting images, stickers, shapes and add typed text.

Jamboard is the software and Jam is the “doc” and the frame are the “pages” of the “doc”.

How to Use Jamboard

Google for Edu - Teacher Center: Getting Started with Jamboard

This is a great place to start learning how to incorporate JamBoard into your bag of teaching tricks. This site has video tutorials, PDFs, lesson plans, and more.

What teachers and students can should know:

Work on blank Frames. Important Note: a Jamboard allows access to ONLY 20 frames (pages)
Shareable via Classroom and stored in your Google Drive
Add and edit sticky notes
Add text, images, shapes and drawings (easily move around frame)
Easily erase objects or mistakes
Use a pointer to bring attention to an idea when presenting
Edit backgrounds, shapes, text size and colors
Save Jam as a PDF or an image - find this option under the three dots in the upper right and corner

Information borrowed from Infused Classroom's post: "How to Use Jamboard - 10 ideas to get you started"

Jamboard Templates

Teachers are creating and sharing their JamBoard templates all over the internet. Take a look at the collection below. If you have questions, reach out to one of the district's instructional technology specialists.

Jammin' with Jamboard Templates
The Ultimate Jamboard Template Wakelet
10 Jamboard Templates for Distance Learning (Ditch That Textbook)
Virtual Morning Meeting (Elementary)
Folder of Templates

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