Jamboard for Teachers

1. Five reasons why I love Jamboard and you will too: Hello and welcome. My name is Mila. And today I'm going to show you how to use Google Jamboard. If you are a teacher, a coach, or an educator, this class is for you. Before we dive into the Jamboard basics, let me share with you five reasons why I love Jamboard so much and you will too. Reason number one is it's interactive, entertaining, and colorful. Yes, colorful. I believe that colors can help with learning. For example, I am a visual learner and I learn much better and faster when I see colors or when I highlight information. You can do this in the Jamboard. Reason number two is, it's not just a whiteboard, it's a collaboration tool. You can share the whiteboard with your student and they can collaborate. They can write, draw, insert pictures, they can do everything you do, and you'll see all the changes in real-time. Reason number three is that you, after you finish, you can save the whole whiteboard as a PDF, or you can save separate files as pictures. I will show you later how to do it. The reason number four is that you can quickly upload pictures. You don't have to first search for the picture, download it to your computer, and then upload it to the whiteboard. You can do it directly by using the Google search. So it's pretty convenient, especially if you are an ESL teacher and you want to explain a new word to your student so you don't have to describe the word or use complicated definitions. You can just search for a picture quickly. And also it's more interactive for the student. Reason number five is that you can prepare your jams beforehand, before your class. Then you can make copies so you can reuse your jams as many times as you wish. You create just one jam for, let's say, present perfect tense. That's your topic. You create one jam, then just make a copy. And then you can use the same jam with as many students as you want. These were the five reasons why I love it so much and now let's dive into the basics. Let's see how you can create your first jam. 2. Create your first Jam: To use the Jamboard you need to have your Google account, you need your Gmail. If you don't have Gmail, go ahead and sign up. If you do have your Gmail, then just click on the nine dots over here. And here, when you scroll down, you will see the option Jamboard. So let's just click. This will open. If you haven't used Jamboard before, it will be empty. These are my jams. So you will see them here. They will be stored here. Now, to create a new jam, just click on the plus sign. A new window will open. Here we have our jam, untitled jam. When you click on 'design', you can name your jam. Let's name this one, for example, Trial This is the jam size. It's always like this. This is the slide. Now, here on top, you can see the number of your slides or they call it frames. It doesn't matter. Now. Your Jamboard can have 20 slides or frames. This is the maximum size. You cannot create bigger jams. 20 slides is the max. Now when you click the arrow over here, it will automatically create a new slide for you. Also, when you click here, you will see your slides. Also, you can just click the plus sign to add a new one. Anyway, when you click on the three dots over here, you can delete slides. Now, let's go back to our slide over here. Let's get started with designing the slide. First thing we want is to set background. Click Set background. Here you can see different backgrounds. Dotted background, squares, oh no, these are lines. Here, a squared paper. You can play with it. You can even upload your own background. Maybe here. You can use a photo, a picture that you have in your computer. We will have a look at this later when I show you how to upload pictures. So I want this one. So now we have background. The next thing we want to do is to duplicate the slide. I showed you how to add more slides, but if you do this, it will just add an empty slide. But you want to duplicate it. Because maybe you already have some designs here and you don't want to copy everything manually, you just click on the three dots. Duplicate. Okay? Now you have the same slide. Alright, so now we have the slide and let's continue with images and sticky notes. 3. Images and sticky notes: Let's have a look at what we can do with sticky notes and images. Let's start with sticky notes that are over here. Let's click. You can choose from five different colors. Let's choose yellow. Fruit. Save. Now I want vegetables. I want it to be green. Save. Now I have two sticky notes. As you can see. This one vegetable, the word vegetables is a little bit smaller. I cannot do anything about it. We cannot change the size of the text. We can only change the size of the sticky note. So you click and you can make it bigger or smaller. You can drag it, move it on the page. Here, rotate it. Let's say that I want the green sticky note behind the yellow one. Now it's in front. I want it to go behind. I just click the three dots, order, send backward. And now it's behind. You can change the order of the elements. Now, maybe I want another fruit note and I don't want to create it again so I can duplicate it like this. Or just a right-click duplicate like this. Then I can just delete it. Delete. Delete. Now pictures. Pictures, images, photos. They are just below the sticky notes. And what you can do is to upload your own picture. You can browse your computer. So that's what we're going to do. Here I have a picture and this is the same as the sticky note, so you can change the size of the picture. Rotate. Duplicate. It's the same. Now. You can also select a picture by URL. You can take a picture with your camera. You can also, and this is fantastic, fantastic tool. You can search for an image on Google. Let's say your student doesn't know what roof is. You write roof. This one is great. You just click the picture, insert, and here you have a roof. I think this is the best feature. So you don't have to download the picture to your computer and then upload the picture from your computer. You can insert it directly from Google. So this is fantastic. Now I have two pictures, and because I inserted the roof afterwards, it's in front, but I want to send it back so again, I click on Order. Send backwards. Now the family picture is in front. Alright. That's about pictures. And we are going to continue with writing and drawing tools. 4. Writing and drawing tools: Let's get started with the pen, which is the first one. Here on top. You can choose 'pen'. Again, we have different colors. This is the thinnest writing tool. Then we have a marker, which is little bit thicker. Highlighter. I loved this one. I use this one a lot, especially the colorful one. I think it looks so cute. It's a little bit transparent, so I think it looks really attractive. And then we've got a brush, which I don't know. I don't use this one a lot. Now. See, here we have some drawings. So what if you want to delete them? You can either choose the eraser over here and erase, erase it a little, just a little bit. But if you want to erase the whole frame, the whole slide, just click on Clear frame and everything will be deleted. What's next? Next we've got some shapes over here. We have circle, square, rectangle, triangle, arrows, everything. Now I want a circle, so I select circle. Now as you can see, I have a white circle with with a black line. I want to change the color. If you want to change the inside color, then you have to change the fill color. Blue, green, yellow. If you want to change the border, then you select the border color, yellow and yellow. And now, again, I can still play with it. Change the size. Not only the size, but also I can make it oval, wherever I want. Also, for example, now I want the arrow. I want it blue with a black border. Now, I can make it longer. These are the shapes. I will show you in a bit what else we can do with them. Now, text. We want to write. If I want to write something new, I select the textbox and I can type. Now, this is the normal size. Here you have the size. Usually when I type, I just use Normal, but I can use Display or use this for titles. Again, I can change the color of the text over here. Text color, I can make it blue. Then I want to continue with the body. Again, I select this one, the textbox. I select Normal. Now I want it to be black. Again, I can click on it, move it wherever I want. I can make it bigger or smaller. Then Caption is the smallest one. Subtitle, title, or display. I can always change the color. I can change the alignment, Center alignment, left alignment. Whatever you want. Then you can expand the textbox. If you want to continue writing. You write a lot. You can just expand the text box. Now I have the title. I want to make it beautiful so I can choose, for example, some shape, rectangle or square. I can do this, but now, because I made the rectangle after the title, now I have to send it backward. So if an order Send Backward, Send to back, when you select Send to back, it will send the shape or the element to the very back. Like the last one. Again, I can, I can move it a little bit. Rotate it like this. Then we have this tool which is a laser. I love this one because you can use it to indicate students where you are on the page, what you're reading, what you're talking about, it disappears. As you can see, it slowly disappears. This is the laser. We are going to continue with adding, removing, and managing slides. 5. Add, remove, and manage slides: Adding, removing, and managing slides. When we talked about creating your first jam, I showed you how to add and duplicate slides (or frames). Let's review, when you want to add a new slide, just click the arrow create a frame. And a new frame will be added, which is empty. If you want to duplicate this slide, then you just click, Expand frame bar. Three dots. Duplicate. Here we go. Here you have the same slide. Now, what if you want to let me just delete it so that we can see better. What if you want to copy just separate elements from one slide to another? You can do it as well. If you choose the element, let's say this sticky note and you select duplicate, what happens? It's duplicated, but here on the same page. That's what we don't want now. You just right-click Control C. Go to the new slide. Control V. That's it. Just copy and paste. That's what you need to do if you want to copy it between the slides. Now, the thing is, you cannot copy elements or pages. The whole, I mean, the entire slides to another jam. You can do it only within one jam. If you have more jams, and you want to copy a page because we want to use it in the other, jam, you can't do that. I don't know why. Google knows about it, but they haven't done anything about it. It's simply not possible. But what you can do is copy the whole jam. I have this one that we call Trial. By clicking here, I can make a copy. You can again, you can choose another name. A copy of trial, trial two. Now you have a copy of the whole jam. If we go back, now you can see that you have two, right? The trial and trial two, which is the copy of this one. Let's go back to jam. Now. We already said if you want to delete a single slide, you just delete it like this. Then what if you want to change the order of slides? Here we have two slides. Let me just change the background so that we can see the difference. Another one. Now, I've got three slides, but I want the first one over here. So you just drag it and drop it. Simple like that. Drag and drop. And you can change the order of the slides. Now, let's say you've finished. You've finished your session, or you want to download the jam. So you can download it as a PDF. When you click download as a PDF, the whole jam will be downloaded. Here we have three slides, so you will have three pages, three-page PDF. Now, what if you want to download just one slide? Then you can save the frame as an image. If you save the frame as an image only this one, see only the active frame will be saved. This is where you make the copy. That's what we already explored. This is where you can rename your jam, but you can also just click on the title and rename it. So that's it. And now in the next lesson, I'm going to show you how to brand your jam so that you differentiate your jams and make them stand out. 6. Add your own branding: Let's talk about branding your jams. We're going to see how you can differentiate your jams and make them really stand out and be different. In the beginning, I showed you how to set your background. Now. I showed you that here you also have the option of inserting your own image as a background. You can use this option to add your own brand. For example, let me show you. I will upload this one. I have to move this so that you can see it. As you can see, this is my logo. And here. You can put your website. This is what I created in Canva. If you want to create your background in Canva, then use these dimensions. 4096*2300 px. This should be enough. This is more or less the size of the jam, the slide or the frame. If you go to Canva and just create a new design with these dimensions, then you can use your brand colors, your logo, or your website, or your name. Copyright, for example, whatever you want. Now, what I wanted to say is the difference between background and image. Why do I set the image as a background? Why not just upload an image? If I upload an image like this, the same one, then as you can see, I can also change the size and do this. It looks basically the same, but the thing is, it's not fixed. I can still move it. It's not really convenient. We don't want that. Because then maybe you will accidentally move it or delete it. It's better to just use the background option. You don't have to even, you don't have to make your own background. What you can do is just, if you have a logo, then you can just upload the picture. Just use the logo. Or you can even type your website manually. It's okay. Then when you want to create a new frame, you just duplicate the page so that you don't have to, obviously, you don't have to upload your logo or the background on every single slide. So it's easier like that. Alright, That's it. One more thing. As you can see, the image is white. But you can also, in Canva, you can choose different colors, your brand colors, elements, shapes, whatever you want because as you saw. The color selection in Jamboard is quite limited. So if you're a brand color is, let's say, beige, it's not here, you won't find it here. That's how you can take advantage of Canada and just create your background over there and just upload it here. We are going to continue with deleting and retrieving your jams. 7. Delete and retrieve Jams: Deleting and retrieving jams. Let's say that you don't want this jam anymore. You want to delete it. You have to go back to the list of your jams. Click the three dots, remove. You'll get this notification. Move to bin. Trial will be moved to Drive Trash and deleted forever after 30 days. If this file is shared, collaborators can still make a copy of it until it's permanently deleted. Now, we're going to talk about the sharing options in the next chapter. Now, what matters is that if you click Okay, then this jam will be moved into your Drive trash. But it will still stay there for 30 days. Now it's not here, it disappeared. So let's have a look. I will go to Drive, Bin. See, it's here. If we want to retrieve it, then, just right-click and restore. Let's go back to our Google Jamboard. We have to refresh the page obviously. And here it is again, we've retrieved to jam. Now, one more thing to consider is, as you can see, I don't have any folders here. Maybe you're asking how can I organize my gems into different folders? Well, the thing is, you can't, you can't, it's not possible. You cannot create folders here. It will always be just a list of jams. Usually, the order is the jams that you, that you've updated recently. are displayed first, at the beginning. You can change this by clicking A-Z sort. My option is Last-Modified. You can also select Last opened by me, Last modified by me. Last modified means by anyone. So if you shared the jam with other people and they modify it, it will go to the beginning. Or what you can do is choose Title. Now, it's sorted alphabetically. Great. Maybe if you can think of some kind of system of naming your jams, that will allow you to have them more or less organized. 8. Share Jams with your students: How to share your jam with your students. If you have individual students, it's probably better if you share the link with them and they can collaborate with you. They can work on the jam with you, edit it, add pictures, write, anything. Click the share button. Here. You just add the person that you want. This is my business e-mail. I will choose this one. One thing to remember is probably your students will need a Gmail account. If they don't have Gmail, probably they won't be able to open the jam. I'm not sure. I'm not 100% sure. You'll need to verify and try. Here I can choose if I want my student to be a viewer or editor. Well, we're sharing the jam with them so that they can collaborate on it. Probably you want to select Editor. And Send. Your student will get a notification in their inbox. They can, when they click on the link, they will be added here. Let me show you, it looks like this. Jam shared with you, Trial. You'll just click on Open. Here I am. Now. This is one way. Also. Let's go back to my original jam. Imagine we finished with the session. I want my student to own the jam. I don't need it. I don't want to have it in my computer. What I can do is, I will go back to the list of my gems and click the three dots. Oh no, sorry, my mistake. I click on Share. Again. Here. This is my student. I want to transfer the ownership. What does it mean? When you transfer the ownership, it means that your student will become the owner of the jam and they can remove you. You just have to agree with it. Maybe because it's my business e-mail, it's not allowed. Well, even though it's a Google, Gmail, my business e-mail is Gmail, but maybe because it has my domain here, that it's not possible. Anyway, use your student's personal Gmail, personal account that ends in @gmail.com. When you transfer the ownership, then you can remove yourself. You can delete the jam so that you don't have one thousand documents on your computer. Right? Now, we are going to continue with different ways of using jams in your online sessions. 9. How to use Jamboard in your online classes: So basically there are two ways of using jams. The first way is just to share the link with your student. And let the student collaborate. This is what I do with my individual students. I share the link with them and they can see what I do in real-time. And I can see what they do. I can see all their edits straightaway. So this is one way. I think it's especially useful with kids provided they have their own email. Because I'm sure they would love drawing. And you can make it even more interactive if they can draw and participate. This is one way. Remember if you want to share the jam with your students, they need to have a Gmail account, a personal Gmail account. Now, what can you do if you have a group Or if your students, If your students don't have Gmail, maybe they are using company e-mails. That's actually my case now. Let me show you. This is my business e-mail, so that's why you can see different jams here. Now. I have a group course. Every week we have a topic. Every week, I have four groups. We do the same thing with all the groups. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. What I do is create the jam. For example, this one Debate. This is the master document, the original file. And then Monday group, I create a copy of the jam and create a copy for my Monday group. What I do is I share the jam with them. I share, I share my screen with them. I don't share to jam with them. I don't send them the link. I just do what I'm doing now. I opened the jam and share my screen. They cannot edit it, they don't have access. But it's okay because usually if you have group classes, the focus is on speaking and they don't really need to edit anything. You can do it by yourself. We go through the session. Then at the end, I just download the whole session with all my notes as a PDF and send it to them. Then it depends, if you use Google Classroom, you can upload it there. If you use just if you send them all the materials via email, you can do that as well. It's up to you. Now. What I wanted to say. Yes. So again, you can just save separate frames if you wish. If you want to save just one. It's okay. If you want to save the whole PDF, just download as a PDF. One more thing. Maybe you're asking, okay. What if I sent them to the breakout rooms? Yes, because we use Zoom, so sometimes when they need to prepare or brainstorm, I send them, I separate them into groups. So in that case, because if I send them to the breakout rooms, they cannot see my screen. The screen-sharing stops. What I do is I just send them a link to a Google Doc. Yes. So for example, here I have a debate class activity and I share the Google Doc link with them. This is the document that they see, because they open it on their own computers and they can edit it, they can write there. Everybody sees it in real time. It's pretty useful. Then when we go back to the main room, Then, I start screen-sharing again. Now. Maybe also you're asking, okay. If I share a Google Doc with them and the Jamboard not, okay. Why do I do it? The Jamboard is pretty straightforward, but still, there is some kind of a learning curve. It's not like it's you look at it and you immediately know what you need to do. That's what I want to avoid. Everybody knows how to use Google Docs. You just need to type and that's it. It's much easier. But if you share the Jamboard with them, then maybe they will be like, oh, where is the text like well, okay. This one. Oh, no, I didn't want this one. Like I want a different color, oh no, this is too big. It might create confusion and you might spend too much time explaining the tools and also that's why I prefer just to share my screen and if they need to collaborate and do some group activity in breakout rooms, I just share Google Doc with them and everybody can see it. Right, now we are going to continue with some tips on creating activities for your students. 10. Tips on creating activities for your students: Tips on creating activities for your students. Before I share with you some activities I use quite frequently with my students. Let me remind you that you don't have to create all your jams from scratch. You don't have to type everything, and upload pictures, and create shapes. No. Let's say that you have a PDF, some PDF worksheets, or a textbook you would like to use, you can do that. The thing is Jamboard doesn't support PDF files. You cannot upload PDFs, you can only upload pictures. What I do is I take a screenshot of my PDF and paste it into my jam. So I just use the PrintScreen on my laptop. I think you cannot see it now. I copy the Print Screen to the clipboard, and I paste it here. See, this is the screenshot I just took from my PDF file. It will be pasted as an image. And it's super convenient because you cannot edit PDFs. If you shared a PDF with your student, then you can make your PDFs editable, of course, but it will take you additional time. So what you can do is just take a screenshot, and now you can type here, you can write your students' answers. It's pretty convenient. Alright, so let's dive into the activities. 11. Drag-and-drop activities: Our first activity is This or That. That's what I call it. You can call it Organize into Categories or whatever. Just to show you some examples. This is my jam about present tenses. When we learn present tenses with my students, we learn the theory, how we use present simple, present continuous. Then I ask them to read these sentences and decide if it's a habit or routine, or if it's a fact. Then they go: Oh, Does Sam live in New York? It's a fact. He smokes 20 cigarettes a day. It's a habit. Routine She doesn't have a car. It's a fact, the same. They can do it with present continuous. Is it a temporary situation or is it an action happening right now? So they go: I am listening to music - action happening right now. Or: He isn't singing. Action happening right now. Again, it depends if your students have access to the Jamboard, if you shared the link with them, then they can do it by themselves. If they don't have access when you are just sharing your screen, like I'm doing now, then you might want to do it instead of them. Also, when you use the laser to indicate the sentence they are supposed to pay attention to. You're going to use the laser to direct their attention. But this is just an example. You can do this drag and drop activities on any topic when you will learn family or seasons, months, I don't know. August: is it spring, summer, winter. You can adjust this kind of activity to anything you want. 12. Brainstorming and mind maps: Another activity or another type of activity. is brainstorming or mind maps. Here I have a session about meetings. So the task is which verbs collocate with meetings. Here, as you can see, I have the oval to make it more visually pleasing. Then I can take, for example, a highlighter, draw some arrows. Then when students brainstorm, I can either write their ideas just like this text, for example, arrange a meeting. Or you can, what I find much faster is to use the sticky notes. I prepare my sticky notes and I go. A student says: Arrange a meeting. Okay. Enter. Another one. Postpone. You just, you don't have to always select a new textbook, which is pretty time-consuming. You just write the word, and Enter. Another one. Enter. It's so fast. And then when you finish, then you just select them and you can rearrange them. It's up to you if you use the textbox or the sticky notes to create mindmaps. 13. Gap fills: Gap fills, pretty traditional type of exercise. We all know the gap fills. Maybe some of you hate them. I don't use them a lot. But for example, this one is my trial session. When I have a new student and we have a trial session together. Usually, we talk about their expectations, their learning goals. And I use this exercise to, so that First of all, they learn some new words, such as flashcards, subtitles, absorb, proficient. And so on. when they complete this exercise, then we have a conversation about the different ways to learn a second language. How they like to learn a second language. Again, here I have the name of the activity. Then here I have the words that we need to put into the gaps. I use sticky notes to number the sentences. Then here I leave the gap. And what do you need to do or if they don't have the access, usually when it's a trial session, I don't share the jam with them. so I do it instead of them. They just read the sentence and I just drag it. The best way to improve your speaking skills is to organize a language exchange. For example. I use flashcards to learn new vocabulary. They are the best way to learn. Then yes, of course, if you put it like this, then you have to move the sentence a little bit. So that you can drag the word. These are gap fills. Let's continue with the next activity. 14. Conversation activities: Conversation activities. Here you'll have so many options. For example, here, I use a sticky note: Tell me about yourself. And then I write each question in different color to make it interactive and attractive. Then I can of course, move them. It depends on how long the answer is. The student's answer is, I can just move them on the page. Then another kind of conversation activity is this one. So I have all the questions on sticky notes in the middle of the page. And then I say, Tell me: When did you start learning English? I move the sticky note, use the laser so that they know what I'm talking about. Then. another option is to just maybe use the sticky notes to number the sentences and just write the questions and that's it. This is if you have your questions prepared, if you have them ready. And then, of course, you can use the whiteboard for a free discussion. So you just write your notes, and corrections on the page. Use different colors, highlighters to highlight the mistakes, and so on. The possibilities are endless, so just make it your own. 15. Describing pictures: Describing pictures. I love using Jamboard to describe pictures with my students. Here, what I'm going to show you is a finished lesson that I used with a student of mine who is getting ready for the PET exam. B1 Cambridge exam. We were practicing the speaking part where the student needs to describe a picture and they have one minute to talk about the picture. As you can see here. I selected a picture before the session. This is how we started. What we've created, is this. I asked him: Okay, Alexis, How should we start the description? We should start with some general ideas. The general idea, what is the first thing you see when you look at the picture? He gave me some suggestions. I write them down, here in color I write some useful comments, useful notes that he should keep in mind. Then we did some brainstorming. What can we talk about when we describe pictures? I put two sticky notes because like so that it pops up because it's important that when we describe vectors, we should use the present continuous tense. Know you will see why I love using Jamboard. So here we learned to use prepositions. How to say, how to locate things in the picture, like how to say where they are. This is a great way, here you can use your pen, your highlighters, draw arrows, use colors. And this is something that would be more difficult to do, let's say with the Zoom annotate function. I'm not saying it's not possible, but I don't like it. It's more time-consuming and just the interface of the Zoom annotation tool is so confusing for me. I don't know why. And also, as I said in Zoom, you can only save one picture so you have to save separate pictures. Here, you can all keep it in one document and save it as one PDF. Here we learned how to say where in the picture. Yeah, then we learned some prepositions, and how to speculate. Then he basically described a picture. I wrote down his description. Then I gave him homework to describe this picture. And this is just one kind of activity. You can, you can use any picture, like maybe you are learning past tenses with your students, you just give them pictures and you say, okay, imagine this happened yesterday. Tell me what happened. What did they do? They watched TV and where were they? They were in the living room and so on. If you don't know how to upload pictures, watch the chapter the lesson about images and sticky notes where I explain how you can use and how you can manage pictures in your jams. 16. Guess what: Another activity I want to show you is called Guess what? We have to start by uploading a picture. Let's try to choose some actionable pictures. Where something is happening in the picture. If you don't know how to upload a picture, then just go here. You can upload a picture from your computer, or you can search for Google Images and upload them straight to your jam. Now I have my picture here so make it fill the screen. Now I select the square shape. I draw square. And that's it. This is what you show to your student. They have to guess what is happening in the picture. What is the woman doing? Is she talking to someone? Is it her friend, her grandmother? Is she on a video call? Something like that. So they have to guess, and speculate. The same with this one. For example. Again, you can use any shape you want. I mean, I like using the square or rectangle. What is the boy doing or who is it? Who is he taking pictures of? It's a great speaking activity. 17. Memory game: Memory game. I'm sure you know, memory games. It's somehow similar to our previous activity. Guess what? This one. You choose some great pictures. You can also choose the pictures based on what you are learning with your student. Here we have a picture of a family preparing breakfast or probably breakfast. This is what you show to your students. You can describe the picture. You can just give them one minute to look at the picture and try to memorize everything they see. Then what you are going to do. You're going to duplicate this slide. Choose one object that you hide. For example, you can select a shape, circle, or square. Whatever you like. I will select the circle and I will, I will hide the bowl. I will make it blue. When your students finish describing the picture, then they have to guess what is missing. The same here. I like playing it with school supplies. Again. It depends on what you are learning. When you are learning school supplies, then, you can use some pictures like this. Duplicate. And let's choose, for example, the scissors. As you can see, you can adjust the shape. Makes sure it's not visible. You can rotate it a little bit to hide the whole object. What's missing? That was a memory game. 18. Tic-tac-toe: Tic-tac-toe and other game I love plane using the Jamboard. It depends what your topic is. Let's say our topic is holidays. And I want to play tic-tac-toe about items we take with us when we go on holidays. What I would do is I select the square shape. This will be decreased. Because here in the shapes we don't have a line. I cannot select the line. I will use depends. I will just draw the grid. I'm sure you can do it much better than me. Anyway. Here we go. Now I have to create and I have to choose the pictures. Maybe you have your pictures saved in your computer. Or if you just need to make it quickly, there is nothing easier than just use the Google search. For example, I want sunglasses. Insert here at sunglasses. The next thing, I want some screen, maybe just one. For example, I choose camera. You'll get the idea, right, so you just feel your grid with your pictures and then you share the gym with your students so that they can collaborate. And you assign colors. Then you can play tic-tac-toe. 19. I say, you draw: The next activity is: I say, you draw. I love playing this game, especially with my young students. So I share a jam with them so that they can use the pen. And I describe something or someone and they draw. For example, I say: draw a huge head. Now let's draw two tiny eyes. Now, a thick neck, two giant ears. You can use it to practice body parts, adjectives, even prepositions. You can practice describing houses or a beach, whatever you want. 20. Icebreakers: Icebreaker activities. We are going to have a look at a couple of activities you can use with your new students or at the beginning of a session to break the ice. The first activity is Get to know me. This activity is for your new students. So what I do, I just upload my picture. I prepare this before the class, obviously. I search for some pictures that describe me, that define these. For example, I like dogs. I will put a picture of a dog. Also. I love hiking. I will put some pictures of people hiking. You can create a collage of I don't know, let's say five pictures. And then your student can guess what you like. It's a great way for your students to get to know you. And also you can use this activity to practice asking questions. They can say, Oh, do you like dogs? I would say yes, I do. Or you can put your favorite food or whatever you want. This is about you and your student guesses what you like asks you questions. And you can do the same with our students. Just give them the empty jam. Tell them to search for pictures that describe them. They do the same thing and then you guess or you ask them questions, or they have to describe each picture and tell you more about themselves. Then another activity I like doing is: Choose three pictures that describe you. For this activity you can use the tic-tac-toe grid that we already did. I will just show it to you again so you make the grid. You can just upload any random pictures and organize them. It doesn't matter if you have a grid or not. You choose some pictures. You can choose the same one, hiking. Then maybe people cooking. So students can choose this one if they like cooking. Maybe I would choose a picture of friends. They would choose this picture if they like spending time with their friends. You can also, for example, businessman. They can say. Oh, yes, I work a lot. So just create a collage with pictures and let them choose three pictures and talk about them. This is another great icebreaker. What else? Yes, another activity that you can use not only with new students, but at the beginning of each session is: How are you today? Again, I already have this activity prepared. What you need to do, for example, you can use emojis. You choose just some pictures like happy, happy, sad, stressed, whatever. You just upload the pictures and they have to choose one and tell you how they feel, why. It's like again, a great conversation starter. 21. Class project: Alright, how was it? I hope you enjoyed this class. I'm sure you will make it your own. Your class project is to create or recreate your favorite activity in the Jamboard. Once you finish, feel free to upload it here and I will make sure to check it out. Also. if you can leave a review for this class or let me know if you have any comments. I'm always grateful for feedback. Also, you can check out my other classes that I've got about making workbooks for my clients or students. You might find this useful as well. That's it from me. Have a fantastic day.