What can you NOT do with Jamboard? Very few things. For my classroom, Jamboard is here to stay. I can already see how it is going to save me a lot of trips to the copy machine. The chances are that if you have been following my blog, you already know I am absolutely crazy about Jamboard.
“What is Google Jamboard?” If this is new to you, I have hosted several trainings (training 1, training 2) on how to use it for different purposes in class. I have blogged about using it with authentic resources and target language usage, to facilitate the weekend chat, and to play interactive games.
Today, I am going to tell you how I have used it to tell comprehensible stories.
Setting the Scene
I prepared the scene of my story and ignited curiosity in my Spanish 2 class by hosting a personalized question and answer session. I used my T-Chat Jamboard templates for high engagement and to guarantee whole class participation. I came up with four questions relevant to the content of the story using that T-chart and then I asked the question and students created a sticky note to show me their responses. I asked followed up questions to my students according to their level and I also provided input by calling out their responses. For example, I would say “Zay thinks that he would not like to have a YouTube channel” in the target language so that students were able to begin to get repetitions of word that they were later on going to hear in the story.
Prepare Your Characters & Story Telling Frames
My Instagram friend, Maria Isabel, aka @la.profe.de.espanol has made this amazing free template to do story telling in Jamboard. These are perfect to make your stories comprehensible.
I set up my story with Maria Isabel’s frame and wrote the text on the right side as I was telling the story. I used the frame to make everything as comprehensible as possible for my students. Maria Isabel has many other ready to use frames for Jamboard available. I also had my pictures ready before hand. You can move characters around if you need to as you are talking, and to do that, I use this Remove Background site. You can also annotate on the characters as needed.
I also did a true and false check for understanding off Jamboard and we played a Blooket game based on the text of the story to give my students even more meaningful reps of the story.
Integrating Authentic Resources with Stories Whenever Possible
On the next day, I broke students into break out groups of three students. Students had to explore an authentic resource about the three siblings in the story I had delivered the day prior. I assigned each group a copy of the Jamboard assignment. The Jamboard had four frames (pages). Three as the ones pictured and the last one as the image below this paragraph. Each student needed to scan over the authentic resource, a page from YouTube fandom in Spanish about the three main characters of the story and write a small description. There were three students per group so it worked out well.
Assignment for non-heritage speakers
Assignment for heritage speakers
I asked heritage speaker students to do the same things, but I asked them to go back to their paragraphs to make some statements false as these paragraphs created by my heritage speakers would also make great comprehensible texts for me to include in additional activities later on.
Play Classic Games with Jamboard to Check Comprehension
After the breakout rooms, students played Flyswatter to check for understanding. Here is a snippet of what that looked like:
Finally, students provided statements with interesting facts they discovered about the characters of the story. I utilized my ready to use exit ticket Jamboard template, available in Spanish, French, Italian, and English) that can be adaptable to any lesson.
Other Things that Can Be Done with Jamboard
Here are other ideas on how to use Jamboard with stories that have been share by incredible teachers via Facebook groups. I am sharing them with you with their consent.
Unscramble the story
Play Running Dictation
Illustrate parts of a story
Simplify the Process with Jamboard Templates
Everyday, I am using Jamboard to engage my students one way or another and I love to simplify the process using templates I have already prepared to host so many types of activities. I simply think about what I am trying to accomplish on a particular day, select the right template and go from there. Visit my Tpt store to check out my Jamboard products. All of these products will be up to 25% percent off on Monday, November 30th & Tuesday, December 1st. Use the code CYBER20 at checkout.
For More Jamboard Resources & Ideas
Check out my initial free training on Jamboard and follow my YouTube channel. Join my Free Facebook Community Transformation Through Acquisition Driven Instruction and follow me on Instagram @profesoradelgadillo and on Twitter @profedelgadillo for more WL teaching & Jamboard ideas.
Browse through my blog as my latest posts have been about how I have been implementing Jamboard in the classroom for various purposes.
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