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Speaker 1: OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network.

Celine Signorini-bakan: All right, good morning, everybody. I hope everybody can see my screen. I am sharing my screen. So I am currently in Santa Clara. And it is good that I didn't decide to go to Chula Vista because I have a lumbago which started yesterday. So I couldn't even have driven down South.

So welcome to my workshop. I hope at the end of this workshop, you will be in love with Jamboard the way I am in love with Jamboard. My students even say that I am totally addicted to Jamboard, and they are not wrong about that, for sure. So feel free to ask questions on the chat. All right?

And so I have it on me on my other screen. And also we have the moderator who will help me if I miss some. And there might be people entering the room because the keynote has just ended in Chula Vista. So there will be people sitting in front of their computer getting ready. But let's get started because Jamboard is a big beautiful tool, and we have a lot to study.

So first, let me introduce myself a little. My name is Celine Signorini-Bakan, and I teach at California College of Communications. We are now located in Campbell in California. You have my email address here, but I can share it with you later. And I am an ESL instructor. I teach upper levels. I teach level 5 and level 6. And I use Jamboard in basically every topic I teach, because like what I love in Jamboard is that it is collaborative.

So we will get there very quickly about the collaboration stuff, but first, so I just want to say that I will praise Jamboard, and this afternoon, I will praise Google Forms, but I don't get any money from Google. And so we are going to see first, like step by step, how to make a Jamboard. And then getting to know your Jamboard, learning about the toolbar, and then Google Jamboard as a collective platform, and how do you use Google platform in your-- Google Jamboard in your classes? I will show you a few examples of what I do. And I think we're good with this one, so let's go to the next one.

So it's a follow along workshop. So I really invite you to do as I do on your own computer. So we are going to start with where to find your Jamboard. So you might notice that my presentation is actually on a Jamboard. So you will open your Google Drive, all right? So I have a shortcut here. Maybe you have a shortcut here to Google Drive.

And then from your Google Drive, you have New. So you will click on New. And you will go down, and more, because it doesn't appear right away. And this is where it is, Google Jamboard. So you click on the Jamboard, and it opens an empty board. All right? So what I'm going to do is that I'm going to right away share that with you.

So anyone with the link can actually edit. I will talk about sharing later. And then I will copy the link, and I am pasting the link in the chat. So everybody should be able to open the link. I should see many little things appear here. Yeah. Some people are already here.

So feel free to open another one here and on your computer, but we are going to testing and really come here to this one so that I can see that people start to do what I explain, right? So OK. So this is where to find it. We just saw that. So more, and then Google Jamboard. And it opens Jamboard. all right?

So getting to know Jamboard, I know it's always kind of intimidating maybe to meet a new tool. And I started to work on Jamboard at the beginning of the pandemic, because we were looking for ways to interact with the students better. And it was a very good way to have them work at the same place, like in the same page, and to share everything. So that was really-- to me, it was probably the best part of the pandemic, that I discovered Google Jamboard.

So here, at the top of your board, you can give a-- if you click, you will give a title, right? This is where we are going to spend a lot of time, because these are all-- it's the toolbar, right? Then you have two carets at the top to go to the left and to go to the right. And here, you have a screen in the middle; we will explain that later. And on the top right-hand corner, you can share your Jamboard. And this is a very important thing, because you want to share that with your students most of the time.

All right. So we are here. We give a title. It is here. The toolbar is here. And then you have your board here. The caret to go to the left, to the right. It adds a new board automatically when you go to the left-- to the right, and then you can go back to the other boards. Sharing devices here. And then you have this, but we can get back to that later too.

So first page, let's see. So let's name our Jamboard, right? So we are here, and we are going to call it template. All right, template. And then I say OK, and the title appears here right away. No, it's not like Google Slides because Google Slide is less collaborative, and this is, I think, easier to use. I am answering a question from the chat.

I appreciate that. I hardly use Slides now except if I want a very specific template to do something. But otherwise, I use Jamboard all the time. It is so much faster when you know how to use it. And remember, the point is really to be collaborative. Like for example, the people who are here, OK? All of you, click on this icon, the little sticky note right here on the left side, and you will write Hello.

So I am here in California. And if you click here, so on the left side, sticky note, and then you can post a sticky note.

Audience: [ INAUDIBLE ]

Celine Signorini-bakan: Yeah. Aha. Hi, everyone. See. And you can move it around. It is very easy. You don't need to select anything, but that-- so I really like it. So everybody can write on my board, and it takes just really two seconds. So this is why I prefer it much to Google Slides.

All right. So we named our Jamboard, our Jamboard is named template. all right? Hello, Ventura. And Milpitas just next to me. All right. So you name your Jamboard. Remember to try on your own in another Jamboard, right? And if you don't remember where to find it, it is on the Drive. Or for people who are late comers, you open your Drive, you scroll down, more, and then you find it here, Google Jamboard, and it opens a blank new board.

So do that, and work on your own, and then work on mine when I ask you to intervene so that we can see the progress of everybody. All right. So now we've named the board. So let's just start to modify the board. So we are here. On the top left hand corner, all right? You have Set Background. So you will just click on that, and it will open different types of backgrounds you can choose from. All right? So let's add a background.

So to save energy, I very often use the black one. And also because I find that the difference in terms of color, I cannot remember-- [ INAUDIBLE ] someone from my school. So the contrast is much better with the black board. But you can choose something-- you can also add your own frame. If you want to import, like for example, I will go to Google Image, right? And I will look for, I don't know, let's be Californian. Sunset. And then I will add a sunset to my board.

All right. So sometimes it's not the right size. So sometimes you need to resize. But anyway, it is good enough. But then, yeah, it turns my background in white. So I will remove it, and I will just go back to my black frame. But it's very easy to change the background. All right. And then you have here on the top, so here too, right? So you have this little thing to undo something and then if you want to redo something. So that's here in the top left-hand corner,

You have a little zoom, right? If you want to make it bigger or smaller. And then set back around, we just saw it. And clear frame, try not to do it, because it removes everything. So if I do that, crisis. But then up, undo, and everything is back. So that's much better. So there is always a way to, like if you make a mistake, to find a way to fix it.

OK. And then for-- yeah, that's for the zoom right here. So you can change, make it bigger, make it smaller, so zoom in zoom out. I don't really use that most of the time. All right. So these are the things that you can find on the top left-hand corner. So I hope you are trying to-- yes, someone changed the template here.

Can you add the template-- the one with the little squares. I don't remember the name in English. But anyway. Or the gray, the gray one. Can someone put the gray background on our template? Yup. Cool. All right. So so far so good, I guess. So let's move on. Now, in the center, this is also very interesting.

So you go to the left and you go to the right, OK? So the only thing I don't like about Jamboard is that you cannot use your keyboard to move forward and back. You always need to click. So that's-- I keep on asking Google to make that available, but they haven't done it yet. Hopefully in the future.

And so if you click here, you will extend the frame bar. so it opens the frame bar at the top. So if I go straight-- if I want to go straight to this, I will go there. All right? If I want to go back to where I was, and now I don't remember. So it might be this one. Oh, no, It is actually this one. It's here.

So you can move from one board to the other. Jamboard has only 20 frames. So this is why I have one, two, three here for my presentation, because 20 is actually not so many. So you can move from all of them all along, right? And then you can come back here. And what you can do too is that you can add new ones.

So on this one, of course, you can't because it is already 20. But here in my template, if you click here, and you can add, so one at the end, OK? Or maybe I want to insert one here. So I will insert one in the middle. And then I click, and this is the one I am on. Right? So now I want to insert one here, and so I click here. And I will choose blue. It's also a very nice background.

So yeah, either if you want to use, you just need to click the next. See, we have five. And now if I click, it creates six. But sometimes I forgot to say something. So I need to insert one, so you just add a frame. And then you have this little kebab menu here that I think we are going to talk about soon. But you can duplicate the frame. So, for example, I really like this one. So I will duplicate. And then you can decide to delete.

How do you do the background again? OK, so it is here, Set Background, change background. At the top left-hand corner, Set Background. All right. So we did that. And then we did that. So you can add, you can delete, you can duplicate. Duplication is very interesting depending on what you do. I will show you later.

So that's the top center. And then let's go to the top right-hand corner, which is here. So you have this little kebab menu, right? And you have share, and you have me. My profile. So let's start with this one, the kebab menu, right? So you can rename, you can download as a PDF if you want to do a presentation. But you don't need to, you can just keep it that way too. And then save them as images, remove, make a copy, and then send feedback to Google. So this is where I ask them to change some stuff on the Google.

And then see version history. So see, when I prepared that, it was not here. So they added one feature. So now let's talk about the sharing thing. So you will click here, OK? And it will open this window, Share. Yeah, Jamboard. So you need to choose who is seeing it, right? So either it is restricted, but that way, you cannot-- like only people with the email can see it. Or anyone with the link, so for example, if you post on your classroom or anywhere on the web you want your students to access to, you need to choose this one, anyone with the link. It is in here.

And then, this is my Jamboard, so I don't want anybody to change it. So this is where I go, and then everybody is a viewer, all right? Because if everybody is an editor, everybody is messing up with my Jamboard. So remember to do that when you want a Jamboard, for example, to teach a grammar point, right?

If you don't want your students to change anything, remember that they should be only viewers, and then done. So that here, for example, remember on the template, if I click here again, anyone with the link is an editor, because everybody can write on this Jamboard. OK. So so far so good. I guess that there are no questions.

So remember to click on restricted if you want to, OK? It is by default, but it is not my favorite. But I always choose anyone with the link. And the sharing setting, it is super important as I told you, because many times, my Jamboard, at the beginning, I didn't know, I didn't pay attention. And my Jamboard was a mess because students moved everything around, and I couldn't find anything anymore.

So this is like yeah, students, if they are viewers or editors, this is very important to remember. So I made an entire frame about that because editors can modify your document, viewers, they can only view, of course. And then share to choose the right option, the one you want when you copy and paste the link. And then you can send it through WhatsApp, through the chat for anything. So it is very easy. You can add it to a slide, you can add it to a doc. So that works very well.

So that was for the sharing option. So now what we can do, because I guess that I asked you to-- I asked you to open your own Jamboard. So I am adding my email address in the chat. So can you share your board with me, and then I can open and I can see what you've done, so that I make sure that everybody understands how to share.

So you go to the Share, and then you add people. So you can add me here with my email address. Or you can copy and paste the link. Maybe it is easier actually, because I will have an invitation in my email maybe. Let me see. Sorry, I'm watching the other way because my computer is here.

So yeah, so maybe just-- like only you write on the board as an editor and not edit it So I don't understand. If they are editors, they can edit. Yeah. Like you mean, yeah. You cannot decide that this frame, they are not touching, but the next one, they can modify. Yeah, definitely.

So, Oh, someone shared a Jamboard with me. all right. So here they are. This is one. So it's a very wide Jamboard, but it's a very perfect Jamboard. And then I have Anna. Let's open. Oh, that's very nice. OK. So yeah, so you can really personalize your Jamboard as much as you want.

So yeah, students, if they can edit, they can edit the entire Jamboard. So it is-- Yeah, I was just thinking about a way not to have them modify one frame. But except if you take a copy of the frame, like you take a picture, and then you post it, so that the frame-- they cannot delete any elements. Otherwise, it is not possible.

All right. OK. So I am closing that because after that, I have far too many. So that was for the sharing. Anybody-- did you get mine? Susanna. Did you share with the-- yes, it is here, Susanna. Let me open. Practice. Up. So this is Susanna's Jamboard. All right. Perfect. Yeah. So let's move on to-- let me close that.

And what is that? I don't know. So sharing is done. Now let's start to use the Jamboard. You named it, right? There is a title, and then you've decided for your sharing option. Now, what you can do, so this is on the left-hand side, the toolbar, right? And there are many, many things you can do with Google Jamboard.

So you can draw, right? And then you can erase, of course, you can select, you can stick. So this is select where I am now, right? When you don't write. So we can have a duplicate of Jamboard before inviting students? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, Yeah. You can make a copy. It is here. Make a copy of the Jamboard. So yeah, the question is, can we make a copy so that if the Jamboard-- if the students mess up with your Jamboard, you have a copy? Yeah, it is here. The kebab menu at the top, and then make a copy.

All right. So sticky notes. It is very easy. This is sticky note. Image, shapes, text box, and then laser pointer. So laser pointer, if I want to, that's particularly easy to understand. But let's just start with the first one. So you want to draw, OK? I'm not very good at drawing, but-- I don't use that very often, but if you-- for example, if you have-- you can create an exercise for like mix and match, right? So students can use drawing to connect things, right?

So if you click here on the draw, which is at the top here, the first one in the toolbar, you open this little window, all right? So you will choose the color. So it's Google, right? So you basically have the Google colors. And then you can choose the style, right? So the style are here. From this one to the left to this one to the right, it is very thin, and then it is very thick.

And that's, for example, if you want to highlight something, so let me do that actually. I want to highlight that. It is very important. You cannot really see, but on-- so if you write something and you want to highlight, this is probably useful, but otherwise, probably the first one is the one you are going to use. It is not very nice though, right? So what can we do about it? I guess that the answer is in the next frame.

Let me just delete that. All right. And that too. So I don't want that to be here. So I move. So yeah, if you're not very happy with what you've written, it is very ugly, and so you want to erase. So this is our second one. So you click here, and then you have this little round, right? This little circle here. And you will be able to erase anything.

So let me write-- like let's say that I want to draw a tree, and I am very, very bad at drawing. So this is the tree. And I really don't like it. So I will just delete the tree. And you will be surprised the first time your students use Jamboard, you will have people write everywhere for some reason that I still don't understand.

So yes, you can clear very easily. So everything you write, you can erase with the eraser. You just need to move in circles. So you can erase everything that you've written. This is the pointer. So this is very easy. It allows you to select something. It allows you to do all the actions you can do from Google, all right?

Yeah, so when something is selected, it is in a blue circle, like that. Right? Like I am selecting this, so it appears in a blue. And if I select this one too, my Bitmoji too, and this is also a thing I've added. So you click, and it becomes blue. And then you can do actions on it.

So, so far-- can you use this with Canvas? So I'm pretty sure yes. So Google Doc is nice, but Google Doc is-- Yeah, I hardly use it. Like my students write their essays on Google Doc, but nothing much more like that. Or maybe-- Yeah, I really like Google Jamboard. So it's easier, and you have more options. It is very easy to move things around on Google. There is a question about Canvas, yes, you can share that in Canvas too. And/or anything like Google friendly. And basically everything is pretty much Google friendly.

All right, so any other questions so far? No? I can go on? All right. So let's just move to the next one, which will be adding sticky notes. It is very handy. It is very fast too. So this is the one. The sticky note is the little thing on the side here. So you click on the sticky note, and this is what it opens. So let me do it here. It opens the sticky note. And then you will write. All right? And then you save. And it appears here. And then you can move it wherever you want.

So that's the first thing. You click, you write. So you did it before, right? So I think that this is-- and it's the easiest thing to use on Jamboard for your students too. You can choose a color, of course. So you have green, blue, and you have also transparent, which I like. Because if you want to write equal for example, or plus between something, and it is very, very easy. So like this one.

And now you can have empty ones like that, right? It is a sticky note, but it is transparent. And I have one here now somewhere. So you choose the color, and then you write whatever you want, and then you save or you cancel if you don't like it. There is a new feature too. Like now, you can post when it is empty. Before, you couldn't. Not a long time ago, there was some-- like you had to write something on the sticky note, but now you don't. So I think it's just pretty cool.

All right. So the sticky note always appears-- Yes, let me show you that. It always-- what is that? Oh, we are in Susan's Jamboard. OK. Because someone changed the name. That's cool. All right, so let me-- what was I talking about? Sorry, I lost the track of my thought. Oh, now I don't remember. Oh, Yes, so when you post a note, see, they all appear here. Then-- we have so many. So you need to move them, right?

Oh, Hi. We don't see this one. So up, let's make it green. So whatever you post, it will always appear on the top left-hand corner, and then you need to move it around. And again, it is very easy to move the sticky notes around. Like there is nothing easier than that. So remember that if you post many at the same time, they're all going to be piled up, right? Oh, no, they don't. OK. So that's cool. So they just-- they change features, and then I cannot catch up.

So they're just like spread all along, but still can move them everywhere. Maybe because it is I am posting them. Oh, yeah, that's it. Because I post them, they spread on my Jamboard. But when you guys post them, in that case, they pile up, and we need to move them around. OK, so that was the sticky note. Now, let's talk about this little, again, kebab menu here on the top right-hand corner of your sticky note, right?

So it will open a little window. And on this window, you can edit. So let's take this one, because it's not very clear what it is about, right? So I will edit. So you can change what is written. I will write great, I love Jamboard. But if you double click, it opens the thing. So you don't need to open Edit, you can change whatever you want just by double-clicking into them.

And then you can duplicate. So up, and then it is the same. And then you change the color. And then you save. So duplicate, and then you can delete, of course. So I will just delete this one I've just added. And finally, you will have the order, and this is quite important. Oh, I have a question. Can you email me your presentation please? Oh, yes. OK, I will do it later, all right? After the presentation.

I can share the link, if you want, in the chat for now. Let me just copy the link. And, of course, you are viewers guys. All right? So up, this is the first 20 frames. So let's talk about the order, because it is quite important. When you create some frames with multiple things on them, you need to decide what is on top of the other thing, right? So you have bring to the front, bring forward, send backward, send to the back, OK?

So if you have several notes, and you want to superpose them, and you want the blue to be on top of the orange one, right? So if I-- like let me finish showing. So if you move, you're not sure that the blue one will be on the orange one. Possibly, if you wrote the orange one last, it will be on top of the blue one.

So what you are going to do is that you are going to edit, right? So this little kebab menu here, all right? And then you scroll down, order. And you will decide if you send it to the back or if you bring it forward. So let me go to the next frame. Oh, nice, we have a musician. All right. So I'm going to the frame number three. I am going to write something, and then on a green, something else.

And I will-- OK, so that's enough. So because I created the green one after the orange one, it is on top. And I don't want that. So I go to order, and then I send it to the back. And if I want to change it. I just do that, right? And if I want this one to come to the front, I will just bring it to the front. So you move them, but then when you pile them up, it changes the order.

So maybe it seems not very important, but I can show you some-- like if you want to-- or for example, here. Did I do something like that here? So yeah, this is on top of this one, right? And so I needed to tell Jamboard this one needs to be on top. So if I click on the frame, you will see that it is. So I can bring it to the back, and then you don't see it anymore. And I want to bring it back to the front, so-- Oh, and now I lost my text. Oh, because--

All right. So I will show you how to make frames and to change the order later, because if you have one, two items, and three items, it is becoming complicated, and it's much thinking to pile them in the correct order. So remember that for sticky notes, you do that. You just click here, and then order, bring to the front, and it'll bring back. I never really understood the difference between backward and back because maybe I don't use it like to that extent, but pretty much that's what I use. Like bring to the front and send to the back.

All right. So that's how to draw and order on your Jamboard. And then maybe because we've already covered 19 slides, and we are halfway to the presentation, you know now how to change the color of a sticky note, you can write on the frame, you can add a new frame, you can go to the next frame, choose a background, draw orders to your notes, erase, name your Jamboard, get an overview, and add some sticky notes. OK? Basically, we've covered this one until the sticky notes.

Do you have any questions so far? No. OK then. So I guess that we can start the second set of slides. We are going to move a little forward, and then we can work together more to apply what we've just seen so far. So we saw the sticky notes right here on the side, now image. You can insert an image, all right?

So if I click here, it will open that window. I can upload from my computer. I can add a link, and then it will find the image. I can use my webcam, but it is not on. And then-- it is not activated for that. And then I can choose Google Images. I can get them from my Drive, and I can get them from Google Photos. All right?

So let's say that-- I don't know what I have planned for. So but these are your options to insert images. So let's go to the next one. So what I do is that I have many photos on my computer, and these photos, I use a lot like arrows. For example, this arrow is one of my photo. So you can upload an image from your computer.

I think that I will show you it is the easiest way to do that. Oh, someone renamed my board now. I am-- OK. So I will click here. I will upload. I will browse. It goes to my hard drive. And here, I have so many, many PNGs, right? Because PNGs, they have the background transparent, and I am a little obsessed by the niceness of my Jamboard. So I have arrows. So you see like I have a black one. And so it is named so that I can find them very easily.

So this morning I was finishing my slides for this afternoon for the Google Forms session, and so I wanted a green arrow. So I did go to green. I have green small one, and then I have a light blue, I have so many. I have so many, many, many items that I use in some past Jamboards and so maybe future. So you just download on your-- so let's use that, because it is used at the beginning, right?

Up. So I will post that. So of course, my body is white, let's put it, yeah, blue maybe. OK. All right. So this is here. And then you can maybe add a sticky note inside. But, Oh, I cannot see my sticky note anymore, right? Because it is not at the front. So up, and then you bring to the front. And then this one, you bring to the front.

And then it is to the front of everything, of course. When you bring it to the front, it is in the front of my bubble, it is also to the front of this sticky note. And then you need to think about everything because-- so this is where we change something I guess. If I do set to the front, and then-- sorry, I'm thinking at the same time. But yeah, so, no, it doesn't change anything. I don't understand why we have these different options.

So what you need to remember is that when you click and you send it to the back, it's at the back of everything, right? So I think that the easiest is probably, at the end, you just choose that, you send that in the back, and then it is the easiest way to do it. So I will show you more divide options because we can add some text, and I would add this very beautiful double to add some text. So I wish-- sorry.

Audience: [ INAUDIBLE ]

Celine Signorini-bakan: Sorry, I couldn't understand the question. Can you hear me? Because I cannot hear you. Everybody online can hear me?

Audience: Yes.

Celine Signorini-bakan: OK. OK, cool. So I don't know what's happening with the sound in Chula Vista. OK, everybody can hear me. So I will show that again because maybe that was the question. So you open your Add Image, all right? And then you-- I will choose Upload for now, right? And I browse, it goes to my-- you know, it is my downloads and then my images, right?

So I have a file, and I have many different things. So for example, I want to signify to my students that it is super important. So I downloaded so many different attention signs, because depending on the color you use, you want them to see it. So let's choose this one because it's a very pretty one. It's a very warning one.

So yeah, and because it is transparent, right? It's a PNG, a PNG file. So there is no wide background. And it is much prettier. So if you want to download, I will tell you because we have time. If you look for an image, so I will look for a bicycle. All right? I look for a bicycle, and then I will type bicycle PNG, right? Because you need to find PNG files, because they are the ones with the background.

So I will choose a pretty bicycle that I like, right? I go to images, and then I will download this one because it's pretty. I open-- I hope I can download it without too much problem. Is it like-- because sometimes it's not free. Oh, this one is very pretty. So free download. But I need to sign up. So anyway, you understand the concept, right? There are many free PNGs. And if you type free, it doesn't really change anything. Maybe this one.

So I have my favorite sites, and then I just download. So this one is free. All right. So that's a very pretty bicycle. I will download the PNG. So you need probably to prove you're a human being. So I need to click on the V, the dollar, the eight, and the eight. All right? And then it opens-- so I will name it bicycle. All right?

I add it here. And then I want to find it. I want to add it to my Jamboard. So again, I click here, images, upload, right? From my computer. Browse, and then it should be somewhere. Attention, baby, no, balloon, Oh, beach chair. That's nice. And so here is my bicycle. And so I inset my bicycle. And if I want to fit it in that, well that works. And if I want to move it around, I can. And I can do pretty much everything I want with this bicycle. Make it bigger, bring it to the back, and so on.

All right. So that's for-- Oh, I should probably close this one. So that's for uploading from my Google Drive. All right? So I have many, many, many photos, and it's very handy when-- when you do a lot of Jamboards-- how did you get the bubble again? Oh, it is in my hard drive. But if you type bubble PNG, Oh, a bubble cartoon maybe. Go. OK, where am I? Cartoon PNG. So yeah, so you want this one. You like it, and it is pretty, so let's see if I can download it.

So you just type bubble cartoon PNG, right? And then you open it, and you see if you can download it for free. Hopefully I can. Maybe I can't, because this download is not the one I'm looking for. So anyway, you will download it the way I downloaded the bicycle, and then you will find it in your hard drive, right?

So in my drive, I have one specific file called images, and I have all of them, so that I know where to find them. And you see the more I make Jamboards, the more I have. And you can also use that for your Google Slides actually, or even probably for your Google Forms. So any type of Google when you want to add something.

You just need to make sure that the sites where you go, it is free. So this one, it gives many, many options, but not the option to download the way I want. So I will not insist. Let me just have a look. So this is just advertisement. So don't click on that. Yeah, so it is not possible to download. They want me to sign up I guess. And I don't really want to do that. So remember when you look for an image, to type PNG. It is easier. And then you have it in your computer forever.

All right. Where are you storing all--

Audience: Excuse me, oh, yes?

Celine Signorini-bakan: Yeah, I can hear you. Oh, this question?

Audience: That was the same question. You're reading my question.

Celine Signorini-bakan: Yeah. On my hard drive. They are stored on my hard drive. And I try to be as precise as I can when I name them so that I know exactly what I'm looking for. Because I have like probably 30 arrows. So I need to know which one I look for. So black one, long one, small one, brown one. And then I have like attention, attention, all black, like round and black and white, round blue.

So I just try to give names that are very clear so that I know-- and bubbles, I have many, because I find it very cool to add some comments sometimes. So I have a lot to choose from. If I want like a black background, remember, but you can have-- if you have a white background, you can have things like that.

And then I didn't tell you-- Oh, we have. So let's do that actually. Up. So you can decide that you don't-- let me get rid of that. You don't really like that in that slide, so you can just move around. And so, it will come to the vertical opposite the same way. To clarify, PNG indicates that the image, yeah, transparent. Yeah, exactly.

PNG is just that the image is without background. Because if you type only like let me see bubble cartoon, right? I will type that. And I will have that. So let me open this one. And if I-- I can also-- so if I use an image, like just an image from the computer, you just copy the image, and then you will paste.

But then there is this white background, and I really don't like it. It's very not nice. Not very nice. Really not nice actually. And so I don't want that. So I would choose bubbles, like bubbles with PNG so that you don't have that. But yeah, definitely if you want to add an image right from the-- like I want to add-- well, I'm French, so after all, let's add the tour Eiffel. All right?

And so I want to add the tour Eiffel. I open that. I can take it from here, copy image. And here it is with a pretty bicycle and the-- and then again, you make it bigger, you make it smaller. You can move it to the side. And then if I want-- so it's the last thing I've added, right? So it is all in order. The bubble first, the bike second, and then third the-- so if I want to set it to the back, I can do that. And then it can be kind of like that, OK?

So you can create really cool stuff. It's very pretty. I am a fan of Jamboard, I will never say enough. But it's very versatile, it's very easy to use. And I have my students-- I will show you later. I have my students use it a lot. So we need to move on because it's already 11:00 actually.

I think I missed the first step. What did you click on the side to add images? Here. It is this one. Add Image. The one on the toolbar in the middle. The little mountain. So you click here, and then it opens that. So I showed you how to upload from the computer. All right? So OK. All right.

Now, I just want to tell you that you can upload images from anywhere. Let's go here. So up. You can look for images on Google. So I want to-- OK, let's be classic. I want an image of a dog. This one is very funny. And so you will insert the dog. All right? And once again, because the dog arrived last, then it will be like on top of everything, right? In your pile, if you want. In your stack of images.

And if you want to send it in the back, you will just click here, and then it is in the back. But it is a little sad because it's a pretty dog, so you want to bring it in the front. And you can add it here. It's actually a PNG. It is very nice. All right. So that's about it for addition of these images. You can take it from your drive obviously, and you can also go from Google Photos.

I think the most I use is upload from my computer. Because to be honest, Google image, it is so much easier, as I told you, to go and to look for an image of a dog, and then to find an image here, and then you just copy and then you paste. All right. OK. So here we go. So that was finding an image and then you insert. So that's-- Oh, yeah, I decided to do that before too. A dog.

So image from Google, you can get them from your drive, you can google them from Google Photos. All right. So from the drive, I told you. And then you can get anything you want. It is really, really fun. I use that a lot, to be honest. It makes the slides not entertaining, but at least more fun, right? And here, I use my bubble, and then I wrote hello.

You can add a Bitmoji, OK? So this is like an app on your phone and an app on your computer. It is here actually, Bitmoji. And then you can do fun stuff like that. So I made two circles. We are going to see that very soon. And then I did that, the hat from the internet and the face from the internet, and then I have my snowman.

And in France, snowmen are like two levels and not three. This is why. He is not sick, it is a French snowman. This is why. And then I added the branch. And I wanted it to the other side, so I just flip it, and then you have it on the other side. All right. So we have seen so far to draw, and then we have seen to erase, use a pointer, adding some sticky notes, adding some images. Now, you can insert shapes. All right? And it's a big one.

I use it a lot. I've used it in this, of course. So you have different shapes, right? If you click here, this is what is opening. So you have circle, and then square, and so on. And you just click here. So I want to add an arrow. And you come to your frame, and then you just add an arrow. All right.

And then, of course, it is the arrow option. You cannot make another one, right? If you want to make another one, you go back, and then you make another one. Remember that the easiest way to use too is probably either you select, and I am on a Mac, so I will do command + C and then command + V. And I duplicate. But you can always do it from here.

You can duplicate forever, right? Like if I command + C, and then I want to use many arrows, so I can use them and move them around. You can flip them, of course. And remember that it stops when it is like horizontal, right? OK. So let's just get rid of all these things for the moment.

You can try on the frame-- on the board I am sharing, right? Feel free to add some stuff. So some people added some photos, some people added some music instruments. I cannot move that. That's interesting. OK. So yeah, so you have many, many different shapes. These are all the shapes you can get, all right? And of course, you can make them bigger. You can then make them very small. And then inside, we will see how to add some text. So everything here-- each time you need to click and to change the shape.

All right. So that's just to insert. Now, let's see how to change things around. You click, you insert a square, all right? And then you are going to do that. And automatically, by default, it is black and white. So what you're going to do is that you're going to change the color. So it's here, right? At the top left-hand corner, you have the border. And always the Google colors, right? So I will choose red. And you can choose the inside.

So you can choose red too so it is lighter, you can also choose transparent. OK? You can choose any color you want. Some are prettier than others, right? So these are like many, many, so many combinations, right? And so it makes-- so if you want-- if I take that, let's do that. I take that, and I put it on this one. Oh, [ INAUDIBLE ] I cannot do that of course. You cannot copy from one Jamboard to another. This is very sad too, but you can't. OK?

So I will travel into Paris a little more. So let's go to the Arc de Triomphe. All Right. [ INAUDIBLE ] So I want to do that, and I will add it here. Come on. OK. So here it is. My computer is thinking. So I want to make a frame because it will be-- the more contrast you have, the better, right? So I put my frame, but, Oh, Oh, I have a problem. Like it is-- I cannot see my photo.

So I have two options here. I can come here and make it transparent, OK? Or I can come here, and I send the frame in the back. So if I send the frame in the back, it is not very nice. So most of the time, you better choose the clear frame. Oh, no. Up. OK. Here. So you need to transparent. And then the frame is much better.

It makes things nicer, more visible. Like for example, here, if I don't have that, it's very different, right? So adding a frame-- up here. Adding a frame helps a lot. Even when you write something like that here. And then you just need to think about the order of everything. But once you think about the order, everything is pretty much very pretty on Jamboard.

All right. Questions about that, or everybody is still following? So we've covered a lot. There is one more major thing to cover, it is the text. So if you click here, you can add some text. It's the text box, right? So again, you just click, and then it opens. All right. It's very big. But let's write Hello again. Let's be original.

And once again, you just bring your arrow to the corner. You can make it bigger, you can make it smaller, you can flip it, you can decide that it will be behind everything. And then you put it here. You really do whatever you want in very, very-- in a very easy way. So you click, it opens your toolbox, right? or text box, and then you type.

And again, you will choose the color, right? So it is here. Now it is blue. I wanted green. And then you have different size. Right? So caption is very, very tiny. Normal. I think that most of the time I use subtitles. But to be honest, if you want to make it bigger, you just squeeze, and then you squeeze it. And then there is a minimum, of course, because after that, you cannot see anything. So I guess that the minimum is actually caption. Oh no, it's not. It's a little bigger.

So move around, again, your text, OK? And then you can put your text on top of something. Because I type my text last, it is on top of everything else, all right? Because it is the last item I'm adding. So you can choose the color of the text here. Irregular verbs, no. OK, so let's do that again. Right.

So up. Let me-- bigger. So you change the color. And then you can change also the alignment, right? You want to align to the left, you want to center, align to the right, it really depends on what you want to do. So enlarging, moving, and then I want to use that many, many times. So you just duplicate, right? And it gets like in the exact same position, and then you can use it to decorate something.

All right. So yeah, so that's the size, that's the color, that's the alignment. We've covered that. Now, you're starting to have a lot of things on your board, and you want to create a hierarchy, right? You want stuff to be on top of each other. So you will have text, and then you will add a form, right? a shape. So to make this blue over that, you will just click on order and then send to the back, or the opposite, right? We can do it here.

So I want to write something. I want to write it's beautiful. I am selling Jamboard and my country at the same time. It's beautiful, all right? And then, of course, it will be in the front, but let's add something else. So let's add another frame, right? So I will add a little frame. And then I want the back to be white.

And then, of course, the problem is that, Oh, Oh. So for now it is still appearing, so don't click anywhere. And click here, and you can bring it to the front. To the front, hello. all right. So let's do that then. Where is it? All but it's white. This is why I cannot see it, of course.

All right. And so if you move it here, the problem is that everything now, because you've clicked, so you've used that in last, so it doesn't work anymore. So you will have to add this one first. So let's do that actually. Up. And then you will click on that, and you will bring it to the back. And the photo, you will bring it to the back. And then you have your written frame at the corner that is on top of your photo and on top of your frame.

If you have several items, it is better to start with the one in the background and send everything to the back instead of-- the test icon, what do you mean? Oh, the text? It is this one. On the left side. Someone is looking for the text icon. So it's on the left side, it is called text box. So if you click here, it opens. And then you just click in your page, and it adds some text.

So yeah, like think about the order. And most of the time, send something-- like the one you want in the back, send them in the back instead of bringing everything to the front, because after that, it gets really complicated, particularly if you have-- so here we have already four layers, right? So it's a lot. Yeah, thank you. You should. It's a beautiful country.

All right. So we know now how to create some text. We can add some text to a shape. All right? We can add some text without-- Oh, where am I? Here. Sorry. It is this one. You can add some text, for example, I can change here. And we cannot see very well. So I put it in white, and we can see better. So you really can do whatever you want with Jamboard. It is very easy. I find it faster than Google Slides to be honest. It is more user friendly and faster.

All right. Where-- I am lost. OK. So now you have the laser, and obviously it is very easy to understand. If you want to demo here. If you are in your-- like if you present on Zoom, if you're on class of Zoom, if you want to use that with your students-- will you be telling us how we can use Jamboard in-- yeah, I'm going there. I think I'm done actually. Let me see. I will.

So here. Up. So it's a collaborative platform, right? This is where I'm going actually. Thank you. Because yeah, it's already 11:11. So everybody in the class works on the same board. And this is what I like. You can do that with Google Docs too, but Google Docs, they cannot add some photos or anything. So what is nice is that everybody works on the same board. I can see what my students do.

So first, you can check that everybody is working, and this is very, very important. And in real time. So that's really good. So I guess I have a few things here. So ideas, so how I use it in my classroom. So let me actually open my classroom, and I will show you. So we are face to face at [ INAUDIBLE ] now, but we still use the classroom. And I use it for like when my students do their brainstorm before writing their essay, right?

So here for example. We did one I think for-- so we are now covering argument essay, right? So we have a template, and then we have introduction. And we should have something we worked together. Group activity. OK? So it's a very basic Jamboard. It is to train them to work on different topics, right? Mainly the brainstorm of an argument essay.

So they can write their name, they choose a topic, and then they write their-- so they are in group everywhere in my classroom. And I can see where I am, what is happening with their group. And so-- what level do you teach? So I teach level 5 and level 6. But I think you can use that for any level. So for my brainstorm, maybe it's easier for-- I'm not sure actually. I'm pretty sure you can use that for any levels. But I teach upper levels.

So they answer, and then I have another topic, right? OK? So fracking. So someone added the definition because they didn't know. So they chose to add some text. And then here, they added their ideas. You can see that they didn't have many ideas about that. They were not very inspired.

And then from where I am, I can tell them. I say-- I can check the spelling. And I can tell them, hey, I am checking the spelling of the sticky note. What I like also is that when they work in group, if you go to one group and you discuss with them, only the group will benefit, whereas if I'm here and I see something, and I will tell the class, hey, class. And so everybody will be like go to frame number six. Everybody goes there. And I'm like, OK, so what do you think about that?

And I find it very interactive because if students work on their own document, the other students cannot see, and I cannot certainly see. So I really like that. And everybody is on the same one. So that's one way I use it for writing. For brainstorm. Outlining too. So I think we can use that too because it is coming. So I have pre-writing activities. And so that's basically what I do.

So you will have-- so that's a PNG, right? You will have their topic and then yes or no. It's argument essay, right? So pro, cons. And then they will organize their body one and body two, and then they will create their opposing view. So everything in one Jamboard, right? They first brainstorm, and then they make their body one and their body two. They organize their ideas.

And remember, if they write something like good here, and then, of course, they don't want to copy it in the next one, you just copy here, so control + C, and paste it here. So good will be in body two. All right. And then the next frame is about the opposing view. So they need to write their counterargument, acknowledgment, refutation, and possible solution.

And then up, you go to the frame that is for their introduction. So they need to find background information, and then find the hook, write their thesis statement. And then you go to the next student. And because I want them to understand that these four is just one student, and then these four, it's another student, and then the four coming after is for another student, I make them in different types of frame.

And because this is a lot of frames for one student, and remember Jamboard does only 20, what I do is that I come here, and then I make a copy. And then in my classroom, I have actually one, two, and three because I have something like 15 students. OK? So you create one, you make a copy, and then I make it in-- I put it in my-- I add it in my classroom.

And again, they are working on it, and I am just like checking that everybody is working, sharing ideas. And if I see that, for example, someone struggles, right? I will say, hey, class, I think that Benjamin needs some help. How can we help? And so it engages students more. And so this is what I really like in Jamboard.

So let me move on because it's already 11:16. Personally, I have used Jamboard for levels as low as high beginning. Yeah. Some students struggle, but most catch on eventually. Yeah, you definitely need some teaching. Like little by little, right? So maybe you will just-- like on the first day, you're right. Like on your first day of class, you can create your Jamboard, and then you can ask them, like tell us three things about you. OK? Oh, I'm white. So you cannot see obviously. All right. So tell us three things about you. OK? And then they will write.

So of course, I cannot hide it, I will say I'm French. OK? So you can just do that. And it's a very slow beginning, and they can use only sticky note at the beginning. But I think you can really use it for so many, many different things. And I like it from that perspective. So outline a lesson. Of course, you can teach a lesson in that, and many activities.

So I probably have, here, for my opposing view, right? So I've created a Jamboard to explain what is this special paragraph in argument essay, right? So at that time, it was a long time ago. So I think I was using a lot of sticky notes because now my frames are so different. But yeah, like you can create with the colors. It is a nice-- there is a nice way to create some dynamics in your slides too. See, now I would never do that because I would be so annoyed.

So what I would do here is, up, go to my images, and find, for example, one metallic PNG, which is so much better, and I will make it smaller. And up. Goodbye number three, hello number one. So that-- because I know how to use it much better than before, so I make probably better frames now.

So that's for writing. And then different activities. Like if I want to-- on a comparison essay, I start with like vacation at the mountain, vacation at the sea. And I ask them not to write anything but to paste photos, right? So they just go online and they click and they create photos.

Once again, everybody is on the same Jamboard. You create one frame, you duplicate it forever. Remember it is here. And then you don't need to create again and again, you just repeat them. And then you can clear-- when your students are done, you can clear or just delete what you want to delete. So that's very-- I like the fact that we all share one thing. It helps a lot.

So for reading, you can use it for prior knowledge. I can show you, for example, the classroom level two reading. Yeah. So I use that with level 2, right? So it's pre-reading activities. OK? So at the beginning, it is empty. And then we discuss-- Oh, see, someone deleted one image here. Because there should be something. Oh, it is here. Oh, OK. All right.

So yeah, pre-reading activities, right? The text is about food. So you talk about food here. You ask them. And then I have like name as many food as possible in one minute. And then there is some warm up activities. And I like it also to present vocabulary. It's a very good way to present your definition and then an example. And the students, they know that in the classroom, it is here. It is just very easy to find. They know it's vocabulary, and then they have the template. So that's good for reading.

What else do I have? Yeah, reading out loud. I have a full set of to explain, the breathing because I ask them to record themselves when they read out loud. So that works too. And reading activities. Anything there are. I do a lot of podcasts. Let me show you that.

And so they actually today did that. But there is no-- so I presented because I listen to podcasts a lot, and I think my students should listen to more podcasts. And so I made like-- you can add a QR code. Because what is bad is that if you add like a link on Google Jamboard, it is not a clickable link. So that's bad. Because you need to copy and paste, so it's very useless.

So I created this like QR code. So they just need to scan, and then it opens, because I really want them to listen to different podcasts. So it is my advertisement to them. So you can do that, right? Many, many things you can do. And what we do for the podcast is that we share that. So once again, everybody can write on it. We listen to a podcast, and my students-- can you put links to YouTube videos? Yes. Probably here, right?

No, I don't think so. You can do that on Google Slides but not here. Because there is nothing clickable. Yeah, that's the thing. For now, Jamboard has nothing you can click on directly. So you cannot add anything-- like you cannot add a video. You can add the-- you will be able to add the link, and people will have to click on it-- to copy and paste, so it's not very handy. It's another thing I have asked the Google people for a while now. So no, I'm sorry.

Yeah, QR code works. It works very well. All right. So here, with my students, we listen to the podcast, and they take notes. They take notes in the sticky notes, right? So everybody writes what they get. And then little by little, I check, we check the spelling, we add things if it is missing. And after that, because when you listen to news, they are very often hard vocabulary, I create a vocabulary here. So once again, the definition.

And it doesn't take very long. I do that during my class, right? We arrive in class, we listen to the podcast, and then I do that. So I really like that too. Everybody comes on the Jamboard, everybody can see. And then when they review, they know where the vocabulary is. It's also better than having one file for the vocabulary, one file for this, one file for that. It's better to have everything at the same place. So that's for my podcast.

And I also ask them-- do I still have it? I don't know. For reading. Yeah, so reading, let me see. I'm pretty sure I have something. So yeah, they needed to make a presentation about a short article, right? And so you can make very pretty presentation on Google Jamboard.

So I asked them to do the same. Add the definition, tell the story, and a map, and have a guideline. And then they need to tell you where it is, and so on. And like once again, it is very easy to add multiple things in one frame. It doesn't take long. And I find it quite pretty actually. All right. So that is for reading. They read an article, and then they summarize and they make a presentation. It works very well.

What else can I show you? Do your students get on Jamboard in a computer? So it works well on tablets, and it works well on computers. It doesn't work very well on phones to be honest. So most of my students, they know-- and in upper level, they mainly both all have a computer. Yeah, no, they don't have a tablet, they bring their own computer.

We don't have a computer for everybody, but everybody brings their computer, particularly for writing, because all my activities are on Jamboard. So they know. Very few use on their phones. But on any tablet, it works fine. Once you find how to use it, definitely it works well.

Can I show you something else about the way I use Jamboard? Probably I can show you-- like during the pandemic, and I still use that for my grammar classes. Oh, I have also something very neat to show you for practical English. So we have a book, and we have an excellent book. But I don't like when my students all have the notes on their book, right? I like having them engaged.

And so the book we have is Grammar in Context. And there are many, many tables with explanation. And basically, I've created like Jamboard for every single table. But it was during the pandemic, and I had a lot of time. If I want-- so I have a question. If I want the entire class to work on one Jamboard, do you recommend making a copy or just have them work? No, so for my writing, they all work on the same, and then I just delete. Because otherwise, it is too many If you make a copy of every one of them.

So they make their activity, they do the brainstorm, and when the quarter is done, I delete and then I use them again. So I would make a copy when it took a long time to do it, and you are scared that your students mess up. Or for example, if you have that, and at the end you want to add an exercise where everybody can write. In that case, I would definitely make a copy because it's likely that someone will-- like and even by accident, right? They will like delete something. But otherwise, for the collaborative activities, I never make copies. So that was one question.

What school do you teach again? It is Cal CC California College of Communication. It is in the Silicon Valley. Here. California College of Communication in Campbell. So yeah, they use their phone too. But for Jamboard, it is not very good. But most of my students, because they are adults, so they basically all have a computer. Or at least a tablet or like Google Book or something like that.

So yeah, I use that for my grammar. You can do some activities. And I wanted to show you something about practical English, because I am making a presentation today. And my students, they have a task to do while I will be online. And this task is about the wonders of the world. So this is all my guidelines. And then I have to Jamboards. And again, I will see right away after my presentation, in just a few clicks, if they did it.

And I am saying that because normally they are watching me. And guys, do your activity. So they have topics to choose from, OK? So that is very, very-- Oh, some are decided already. So they have topics to choose from. I guess that these two students were very motivated about the Nazca Lines.

So they choose the topic, and then they come here on the research one. And once again, so yeah, I have the guidelines. And after that, I made one to show them what you can do. All right? So they have very strict guidelines about the maps and so on. And then this is what they can do, all right? So they can create, and, again, I have-- Oh, someone did Machu Picchu already. So guys, you did it already. So they did the job already. It is very nice actually.

So see, I can see right away my students what they did. And I am very proud of you guys. Students can access your mode on their smartphone? Yeah, it's not easy. Yeah, it's doable-- it's a question from the internet. Doable but not easy. You're right. You're right, Ruth. It is. So they have done some pretty good work actually already.

So some people worked on Nazca Lines. You see, they used-- and I like it when I see that they used some different things for Jamboard. I am very proud of them when you do that. And then someone did something on the Fushimi Inari Shrine. So yeah, so it's really nice. And some still have to do the work.

And because I want them to use two frames, I created two frames. And then they use them, and then they are done. They cannot go further than two frames. Wow! So guys, you did a good, good work. So, that, they will present next week. Not a lot of room. So they cannot write very big comments. So I like it also because it forces them to speak a lot. And here, the same. They had made a lot of-- there is so many layers on this Jamboard, so it is pretty amazing. So you can do pretty neat stuff, and your students can do really neat stuff too. So that's really fun.

All right. So I think we are done. Are there any questions? Do you assign slides? No, no. You know, they just move forward, and then I tell them usually, you write your name so that nobody takes your frame. And then the people are like, OK, this one is taken, so I go to the next one. But you can. You can totally do that.

Yeah. If you had younger-- mine are younger adults, so they are like all adults. So they just move forward. Or when I see two people writing on the same slide, I just tell them. So it's a lot of freedom, it's a lot of convenience really doing-- like I think what is the best is the writing, the brainstorm. And then seeing them organize their ideas. And I can see everything from my desk, I can go to TikTok personally, but then I can ask the class. If they agree, we can work together. It's a collaborative tool. It brings a lot of interaction and collaboration in the classroom.

And I have one last question. Share your presentation at my department meeting. So yeah, as long as you say it's me, and you don't pretend you did it, I don't mind you sharing my presentation. But so this is the number one. If you want to open it, this is the anyone with the link in the viewer, done. And if you want to modify, I guess that you make a copy, and then you can modify. And this is just the introduction. So it's not very interesting, but I will just provide it to you too.

All right. Any question? Did you-- like was it-- do you think it's hard to use Jamboard? Anybody? All right. So we are done. I hope that you are going to use it to be honest, because it's a super amazing tool. And like for any level, it is really neat. Yeah, it requires some students training, but start right from the beginning, step by step, and then they will get used to it. And your students, they are also curious. So they will try, and they will discover it by themselves. So I hope you will use it.

I have a presentation this afternoon about Google Forms because I'm a Google woman. So Google Forms are 2:00 something. 2:10 maybe or something like that. So if you want to assist, it's also like a follow-along workshop. So it is great to learn. And I will say thank you, and I hope you use Jamboard a lot in your classrooms. Bye bye.

Audience: Bye. Thank you, Celine.

Celine Signorini-bakan: Bye.

Audience: Celine,

Celine Signorini-bakan: Yes,

Audience: Could you email me your presentation? I would love to share it.

Celine Signorini-bakan: All right. So Susan, right?

Audience: Yes.

Celine Signorini-bakan: Let me find your email address back in the up, up, up,

Audience: No, I can redo it again.

Celine Signorini-bakan: Yeah, can you do it again, because I don't know where it is anymore.

Audience: OK, thank you.

Audience: So Celine, do we have access to your presentation, or you have to email it to us individually? So I don't know how to do that with OTAN actually. You have in the-- I pasted the link in the chat of the Zoom. So you can get them from there. And then I can make them available probably through OTAN, but I don't know how to do that.

But you have the links. So open the links before we close this session, so that after that, you can make a copy or you can just-- you can use them as they are, you know?

Audience: OK, I see it. Thank you.

Celine Signorini-bakan: Bye Bye.