Jamboard may be leaving us in October 2024, but there is no shortage of other tools that can help facilitate online collaboration in the classroom and beyond! In this session, we’ll take a look at several free and accessible alternatives to Jamboard, consider how they align to your and your students’ needs and goals, and take at least one tool for a test drive.
- Instructors and other program staff who use online tools (including but not limited to Jamboard) for collaboration and facilitation or would like to do so
This professional development activity/course is designed for:
This offering is part of our EdTech Sandbox series. Each EdTech Sandbox session is an opportunity to get to know and play with digital tools and resources that support your work and your students’ learning. Each of the four sessions will address a different theme, with multiple options to suit your classroom or program.
Course Format: The course is online facilitated over Zoom and is designed to be hands-on.
Course Requirements: To complete the course, you must attend the one-hour session.
Extending Your Learning: After the course, you will continue to have access to a collaborative Padlet with suggestions and ideas generated during the session. We welcome you to extend your learning by building on the project that you will start during the session.
Course Access & Support: You will receive a Zoom link to access this course from Jane Brandt. To ensure that you receive information about your training, please save jane_brandt@worlded.org to your email address book.
If you need technical assistance or have questions about accessing the course, please contact Jane Brandt at jane_brandt@worlded.org. If you have questions about the requirements, format, or content of the course, please contact Jerry Yamashita at jerry_yamashita@worlded.org.
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- Identify 2-3 considerations to inform the selection of an alternative tool for Jamboard
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Strategically choose a tool that is appropriate for the goal and context of a lesson plan
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Adapt an existing Jamboard activity of your own to a new tool and reflect on its effectiveness
Upon completion of this professional development activity/course, you will be able to:
Participants will be asked to bring an existing activity or lesson plan that uses Jamboard, and may be asked to create an account in advance for one of the tools that we will explore.
Specific digital skills that participants may use during this course include:
- Using Zoom engagement and presentation features, including chat and screen share
- Creating an account with a new tool
- Commenting on and adding to a collaborative Padlet
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