IdeaBoard for Jamboard

If you know me, you know that I LOVE Jamboard.  I am so thankful that my district purchased one for me this year. Although there are a few features I still need to explore, I learn something new every time I use it, and I fall in love with it even more.  

I have covered Jamboard several times on my show, The Suite Talk, with guests like Tom Mullaney, Steven Hope, Kassie Drey, Philip Goodrich, Ashley Stout, and Emily Bruns.  Its no surprise that my PLN has embraced this new cutting edge app/tool and use it in their schools and classrooms too.  I learn a new tip or trick from these experts by following them on Twitter.    

I wanted to share the love of Jamboard with a broader audience, so I created the Ideaboard for Jamboard resource.  The purpose of my ideaboard is to promote Jamboard, support others who are using, inspire others who are unfamiliar with it, and to learn and share ideas with my audience.

It offers an introduction to Jamboard, ideas on using it in the classroom, and allows you to share your idea too.  Each idea is hyperlinked to a Google Slideshow that includes a learning goal, how it is aligned, examples and templates.

Some of templates were created by Philip Goodrich from BenQ.  If you like any of those templates, you can download them as an image by clicking on  the link in the slide, then inserting it as a background image in your Jam.  The examples posted are taken from my some of experiences in the classroom and during training sessions.

Please feel free to look at the IdeaBoard for Jamboard.  If you are using Jamboard in the classroom, please share your idea with me and help me #PayitForward and help other educators integrate technology into the classroom.  This information can be found on my website, The Suite Talk, www.thesuitetalk.com 

You can also visit The Suite Talk, and watch past episodes about Jamboard.  My show is available as a podcast too.  Visit my website and click on the 'Subscribe' page to stay up to date on the latest episodes.

Listen to The Suite Talk podcast on Podbean, Spotify, Apple Podcast, and on Google Play Music.

The Chemistry Merge Cube Project

Recently I was featured on a YouTube Live event for CoSpaces EDU with Michael Fricano to demo my Chemistry Merge Cube project that I created for middle school science.

Although, I used CoSpaces in the past, this was my first time using the Merge Cube add-on for it.  I just dove in and started to create my scenes and content for the project. 

I added three scenes which displayed a label to the chemistry topic, plus each scene had four questions.  Because I am a Google girl, I had to align it with a quiz that I created using Google Forms.  The Forms quiz had the same questions, plus I added a few more, and I set it up to release the grade to the students immediately. 

Additionally, I needed labels which were created using Google Drawings.  I was able to customize the formatting of the labels easily in Drawings.  When the labels were completed, I downloaded each one as a png file, then uploaded into the CoSpaces library.  This allowed me to reuse the labels in the project.   

Finally, I coded the space to allow the students to navigate through the scenes.  The students were able to go to the next scene or back to the previous screen.  As always, I love to code and I learned a lot using this platform. 

If you are interested in viewing the show, you can visit the YouTube link to watch the show.  Here is the link to my Chemistry project in CoSpaces.

If you really want to engage your students and immersive them with ARVRinEDU, 3D and 360 degree technology, I would highly recommend creating an account for CoSpacesEDU.  I am fortunate enough to have a school subscription for this tool that includes the Merge Cube add-on, but if you want to try it for free, use the promo code of  COSMICHAELFR.  You will get a 30 day free trial.