Jamboard is an interactive whiteboard system that has a 55″ 4K touchscreen display that offers online collaboration through Google. Oana Jurchescu used Jamboard in her Fall 2020 course, and it was consistently ranked as the best component of her blended class. The students loved it because they had access to the notes at all times, it provided a high quality whiteboard for online participants, and it integrated nicely with Google apps. Join this session as Oana explains the experience and best practices for incorporating Jamboard in a class.
Jamboard: Creative Use of Technology in and out of the Classroom
Presenter Information
Oana Jurchescu
Denton Faculty Fellow, Professor, Department of Physics
Professor Oana Jurchescu is a Physics professor at Wake Forest University and a member of the WFU Center for Functional Materials. She received her PhD from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, in 2006 and was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD, between 2007 and 2009, when she joined WFU. She won the National Science Foundation CAREER award, the WFU Award for Excellence in Research, the URECA Award for Excellence in Mentorship in Research and Creative Work, the WFU Reid-Doyle Prize for Excellence in Teaching, the WFU Innovation award, and several other teaching and research awards. She co-authored 100 publications, 4 book chapters, holds 3 patents, and gave over 50 invited or plenary talks at international conferences. She is a member of the executive committee of the Division of Materials Research within American Physical Society. She organized over 30 international conferences, is an associate editor for the Journal of Materials Chemistry C (Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdom), and a member of the editorial advisory board for three major scientific journals.
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