Google Jamboard is a great tool for virtual or hybrid Spanish class, as you try to keep an eye on all of your students at once! Your students can participate in virtual gallery walks, vocabulary acquisition, grammar practice, reflections, and more by using Google Jamboard for Spanish class! Check out my favorite ways to use Google Jamboard in all of my levels of Spanish class below.
What is Google Jamboard?
Jamboard is a part of the Google Suite. It is a digital whiteboard that all students can edit together or the teacher can use to present to the class. You don’t have as many creative liberties or design elements as in Slides, but students can easily add post-its and images to respond to questions.
How can I use Jamboard?
Brainstorming
- Prior to starting a new unit, see what your students already know about the topic! For example, if you are doing a unit on the environment, one slide could say “animales en peligro de extinción.” Another could say “desastres naturales,” and another “calentamiento global.” Let students generate ideas, terms, photos that fit the category.
- Before students start a project or essay, use Jamboard to help them gather their ideas. This is great for group projects, too! Each student can add post-it notes with their ideas for the project.
Reading Comprehension
- Each slide could be a theme or question about the text you read. Students could add images or text to respond to the question.
- You could also ask students to generate their own questions about various topics and they can respond to each other’s questions.
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Vocabulary Acquisition
- Put a vocabulary term on each slide. Students must find images that represent the term, or write a definition, or identify part of speech.
Jigsaw Reading Gallery Walk
- Put the title of each section on the slide. Students will add their annotations, comments, summaries, or new vocabulary terms to the slide for the section that they read. Then they can look through the “gallery” and learn about each section.
Grammar Practice
- Post a different question on each slide and students will complete a virtual gallery walk using the new grammar concept to respond. Make fun questions to get to know your students!
- I also think virtual gallery walks on Google Slides are another fun way to review grammar! Same idea, but with a little bit different of a layout, since we can manipulate Slides more!
Compare and Contrast
- Similar to a Venn Diagram, students can add post it notes to each side of the slide to compare and contrast two things. Here is an example from an Aztec/Inca comparison. I also tied in the 3 Ps of cultural comparisons!
Essential Questions – End of Unit
- Post an essential question on each slide after you taught the unit. Students can add text or images to answer the question.
Reflection – Do Now / Ticket out the Door
- How did you feel about the lesson? Add a meme or image
- Red, yellow, green light – drop your post it near how you feel about today’s lesson
- Add an emoji or meme about how you feel today – social emotional connections!
- Lesson take away – one thing you learned
- How well did you understand on a 1-5 scale.
These are my favorite ways to use Google Jamboard for Spanish Class, but you can come up with tons of other ideas, too! Let me know how you are using it to make your classes more engaging.
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