What is Jamboard？

Jamboard is a collaborative whiteboard which allows people to share and collaborate in real time. The creator of the Jamboard needs a Google account but participants do not need to.

How do I use it？Video：https://youtu.be/8ikEojc9_wI

1. Go to http://jamboard.google.com/

2. Create a jamboard, you can create a maximum of 20 slides in one jamboard

3. Share the link with students

4. Students can stick post-its, draw, upload images on Jamboard

Pricing：Free

Types of assignments that can be created

1. Mindmap, Brainstorming of ideas

2. Groupwork: 1 frame per group

3. Categorization activities e.g. categorization of vocabulary

4. Sentence order (1 post-it is 1 vocab) Students rearrange the words to form a proper sentence

5. Making thinking visible activities: See-Think-Wonder, Chalk Talk, Compass Point etc.

Other ideas

1. Ditch that textbook : https://ditchthattextbook.com/jamboard/

2. We are teachers: https://www.weareteachers.com/jamboard-ideas/

Things to take note

1. Students have to agree that they would not vandalize the board before permitting them to use it as teachers would not be able to really know who did it