Jam Board
Overview
Jamboard is one smart display. Quickly pull in images from a Google search, save work to the cloud automatically, use the easy-to-read handwriting and shape recognition tool, and draw with a stylus but erase with your finger – just like a whiteboard.
Overview of Jam Board
Jamboard is whiteboard-style while benefiting from the access and connectivity of an interactive canvas, on mobile, or right from your web browser.
Drop images, add notes, and pull assets directly from the web while collaborating with team members from anywhere.
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Key Features
Simple as a whiteboard, but smarter
Jamboard is one smart display. Quickly pull in images from a Google search, save work to the cloud automatically, use the easy-to-read handwriting and shape recognition tool, and draw with a stylus but erase with your finger – just like a whiteboard.
Share ideas in brainstorms or lectures
Jamboard makes learning visible and accessible to all collaborators on the jam session. Plus, It’s easy to present your jams in real time through Meet, allowing for easy sharing or making real-world connections.
Students can jam from anywhere
Educators can engage all students in the learning process, whether working together in a traditional classroom, a group seminar setting, or through distance learning. The Jamboard app makes it easy for students and educators to join in on the creativity from their phone, tablet, or Chromebook
How does it work?
Student collaboration and engagement with the Jamboard app — powered by Google Cloud. Student tablet users can access a suite of rich editing tools to collaborate with students or educators. You can even access it from a web browser too.
How does it work for educational purposes?
Jam Board is a white board which a teacher use it in inperson class room, use it for remote learning environmnet or in both.
- Teacher can uxe this Jam Board to present as a virtual sticky note.
- Students can take part collabrative task to put thier ideas and points using this platform instead of writing note on physical paper note.
- All the discussion points from the lesson for the task will discussed and corrected, sorted, or remove and add points or contents as needed.
Sample of sticky Note.
Both the teacher and students can use the interactive tools of the Jam Board to write a note and draw shapes using virtual pen or just selecting the shapes from the tool bar.
Virtual Pens with many color options of the choice.
Virtual shapes selection as needed.
Plain tex/text box selection as needed.
A video tutorial how Jam Board is useful in teaching learning system.
Use of Jam Board in Real Life
Few in millions users of Jam Board .
Why did I select this technology for this project?
I selected this technology tool for my project because I was made a use this tool in my online Cultural Orentiation Training a month ago.
The traning was on zoom and the facilator introduced the Jam Board to the participiants . There were 500 participants in the training and the participants were put into group session when there were twenty trainees in a group, and each group were given different scenerio. All the participants had to come up with three points of overservation, ideas , and sulution. It was with the help of Jam Board all of the participants brought their points and place on jam board, later in the whole group session all the points were diplays and discussed and sorted the best.
The live and interactive tool was so impressive to me during the training.
What are the challenges/downsides to using it and what tips can you give users to deal with these?
Some of the challenges, issues using and thier solution as provided by the Jam Board support page are as follows.
Issues:
Jamboard responds very slowly and sometimes quits unexpectedly. This may be caused by jams with very large models (large number of objects, images, or strokes) negatively affecting performance.
Solutions/Tips
- on't copy frames to use them as templates. Use an image capture as a template to create additional frames.
- Split large jams into multiple jams. Copy the jam and delete duplicate frames from the original and the copy.
Issues:
After you install the Jamboard app on your phone, you can add yourself as an owner to a jam using the Jamboard NFC reader. In some cases, when trying to take ownership of a jam, the Jamboard NFC reader may become unresponsive.
Solutions/Tips
- Make sure you have installed the Jamboard app and have enabled the NFC chip on your phone.
- Hold your phone flat against the NFC reader on the Jamboard left frame. Look for the letters NFC on the left side near the bottom of the frame.
References:
https://support.google.com/jamboard/answer/7384357?
What is the future uses and implications of this technology in the context of three education levels: K-12, Higher Ed, Corporate?
The live and interactive feature of Jam board is already become popular use for collaborative creativity, bringing the same real-time collaboration. This is one of the best platform for team’s brainstorms and meetings, work with teammates from across the world on other Jamboards or remotely. Thses usefulness of jamboard is a signal light for future outgrowth.
Future of Jam Board.
A Briefly Description of my views on OERs.
A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER) by (Butcher, 1945) stated that, “Open educational resources(OER) any educational resources (including curriculum maps, course materials, textbooks, streaming videos, multimedia applications, podcasts, and any other materials that have been designed for use in teaching and learning) that are openly available for use by educators and students, without an accompanying need to pay royalties or licence fees”.
And in my opinion, OER is a free but great resource for the students, instructor, educators, organizations, and institutions to provide educations materials to the learners. It is also a platform which provide a user to create useful learning contents and share among the learners.
As a conclusion point, I would like to say, OER helps instructors to include textbooks, course materials, modules, videos, and even exams and quizzes to manage learning environment. OER provide a technical guidance to support learning management system. OER a great tool for school management, teachers, and learners in this modern age.
Reference:
Butcher, N. (1945). A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources. 142.