Have you tried Jamboard? Jamboard is a free interactive whiteboard at Jamboard.google.com. Or, go to google drive and select New>More>Jamboard!

Click the + button in the bottom right to create a new jam, or use one of the premade templates at the end of this post.

With Jamboard you can:

• Add sticky notes, drawings, images, text and more.
• Search Google and insert images or webpages.
• Move images, texts, notes and drawings around on the screen easily.
• Share your “jams” with others and let them collaborate. 
• Get an ariel view of your classroom.
• Assign students to different frames of the jam
• Connect your “roomies with your zoomies” via jamboard

Use Jamboards for social emotional learning, and daily check ins. How are you feeling today? Write your name on a sticky note and drag it to the column that describes your mood.

How are you feeling today according to the Chihuahua scale? Click on the sticky note, add your initials, and write the number that represents how you are feeling today and a sentence explaining why.

Use Jamboards to provide hooks, build background knowledge, preteach vocabulary, and make connections. I like to provide possible answers on the Jamboard as scaffolding. The question on this jamboard is what do you like to do in winter. When choices are provided, there is less chance students will resort to Google translate and they are reading and writing in the target language.

Use Jamboards to get to know student’s interests and make class connections. For this four corners, I said a hobby and they moved their sticky note to the corner that reflects their feelings for that hobby.

Use Jamboards to annotate text. Students can circle unknown or key words, highlight the main idea, underline supporting details, and use symbols to make connections or ask questions.

Use Jamboards to review text. In this example, after reading a story together, I changed some details from the story. Students were asked to find one wrong detail and rewrite it correctly on a sticky note.

Use Jamboard to play games. You can purchase or create game templates for tic. tac. toe, connect four, and flyswatters.

For connect four you need 42 questions, or 42 vocabulary words. You can have the students make the questions for you. When reviewing for a test, or a chapter of a novel, tell them to make four questions each: one multiple choice, one open ended question, fill in the blank, true or false. Research shows that when kids create questions for a quiz they do better.

Use Jamboard for assessment. You can duplicate a slide up to 20 times and assign students to a slide. Here is an example of a simple vocabulary match.

Learn more and get free jamboards here, Ditch That Textbook. Bertha Delgadillo is the master of world language jamboards. Check out her blog and youtube videos. I love the thinking routines at this website. https://www.weareteachers.com/jamboard-ideas/

Ready to Jam? What do you see, think, wonder about Jamboards?