 Hello my amazing math minds and welcome to this week's Math Tip Monday. My name is Heidi Rathmeyer from ESU 8 and this week we are going to talk about Jamboard. Perhaps you've heard a little bit about Jamboard. It is a collaborative white board that is available through your Google suite. So if you are part of a Google Apps for Education school you will have access to it. And the previous Math Tip Monday I did white board PHY which was an individual white board. This one I like in particular because it is a collaborative white board and of course it's free again if you're part of a Google Apps for Education. And it is collaborative in nature and another advantage to Jamboard is that you as a teacher can watch the students work in real time. It does have some limitations though and I will show that specifically to you when we go to the Jamboard. But the main issue I would say with with the Jamboard is that you can't lock templates or backgrounds that you want students to work on so they can delete parts of your background, edit them. So that is a problem and I do say yet because there's been a lot of feedback to Google about that particular feature. So let's take you to Jamboard and I'll walk you through it. So I'm on my Google Drive and you can check to see if Jamboard has been activated. If you go to what I call the waffle up here and look for the Jamboard icon if you do not see it there it's likely that your Google Suite administrator needs to enable that particular feature. So if you don't see it talk to your administrator for your Google account. Now once you do have it activated you would just create a Jamboard similar to the way you would make a new doc or a new sheet is go to new and look for Google Jamboard. So this is opening a blank Jamboard and it should have some similar features that we see with other Google apps. So let's walk through some of the features. The backgrounds you can set some backgrounds that are default for the particular system. So you could add the dots you could add lines or different grid patterns and those backgrounds will stay. Then over here you have different features. You can write with a pen, a marker, highlighter, a paintbrush and you have a few colors to choose from. You have the eraser feature, the select feature. One that is probably very popular with teachers and students is the sticky note where you can have students do a sticky note and then they can move it around. Okay, you or the students can bring in images. You have some shapes that you can do. You can also do a text box and this feature I really like is the laser. So maybe you're showing students some particular work on a slide. You can use your laser pointer. Okay, now here's the problem. If I clear the frame, it's going to clear everything that the students did or if you brought in a background. So let me show you an example there. So I'm going to open a Jamboard and I will show you where I have several Jamboards that are already created that you are welcome to use and this is one of them. And the reason I like this one is it's a good introduction to Jamboard because it walks students through just some of the features. So you would just assign a particular space to each student. So you would have four students on this particular Jamboard and they need to type out their name using the text feature, the text box feature, draw a star using the pen. One feature I really like is if you hold the shift button down, it will let you draw straight lines. I hold the shift. Okay, if I don't hold the shift, then my lines are everywhere. So that will just walk them through some of the features. Okay, now here's the problem. As you noticed, I had this background created already and if I clear the frame, it clears the background that I created for the student. So that's the problem. Fortunately, there is an undue button. Okay, now if you come up here where it shows you how many pages are on this Jamboard, if you expand this, you can see all the different pages. So for example, let's say you have 16 students and you want four students per page. What you can do is you can duplicate as many of these as you need. And if you wanted to put students in breakout rooms, you could say whichever breakout room number you are assigned to, that's the page you're going to work on. So if they're assigned to breakout room number three, they will go to page three and that will be the one the Jamboard that they work on. And you as the teacher can see these in real time, you can go to the different pages up here in these arrows, you can go to the different pages and you can watch them as they work in real time. Some other features, you can download their work as a PDF if you wish. The sharing feature, very similar to the sharing feature that you will have on any other your Google apps, they'll make sure when you are sharing the link with the students that you make it editable so that they can actually edit and add to the Jamboard as opposed to view only. So that might be one thing that may be overlooked when you're sharing with your students. So in addition to this introductory Jamboard, I also have Jamboards in folders that I will share with you. And I just wanted to give you an example of one. Here's a third grade Jamboard that has a collection of all different activities. And one of the reasons I like this one is it has templates for you and then it has a sample work that you might see from students. So this one in particular encourages you to bring in a bar graph and then students have to fill out all these different boxes. So for example, here is what it may look like. So the teacher brought in a graph or maybe even what the students to find a graph and put one in. And then they have to complete this information in the Jamboard. So that's just an example of a third grade board. I have folders for K2, 3, 5, 6, 8 high school and even some advanced level high school activities in some folders for you. So I will give you links for those when we go back to my presentation. So that is Google Jamboard. I have some resources here that I mentioned. And if you want to go to this bit.ly down at the bottom so that you have access to these links here for this will send you to this particular slideshow. Here is some general Jamboards. And then I have some Math Jamboards organized by grade bands in this particular link. So give Jamboard a try. And until next time, stay well, be kind.