Student Engagement Tools

For student engagement and participation from home, I am recommending that you try Flipgrid, Padlet, or Wakelet. These are user friendly and offer you options for student responses. I am personally opting for Padlet, as it allows students to share a video, a written response, a drawing, an audio file (for those who do not want to share their faces)... endless possibilities. Padlet will allow us to sign up for a free trial (34 days) but then you would need to email them and ask to have the trial extended through June.

Flipgrid - Learning to use Flipgrid

Access the ready-to-present Flipgrid slide decks and getting started resources.
Join our weekly Flipgrid professional development opportunities, during which we cover everything you need to know to get started with Flipgrid. (Educator’s Guide)

Create Unique Learning Experiences

With Flipgrid, students can “show what they know” for math, science, art, world languages, music, PE, you name it! Check out these Integration Docs for age- and subject-specific ideas.

Why use Pear Deck?

Transform your lessons and make them more interactive.

Open Google Slides to get started- Get the Add on: PearDeck - Open Pear Deck Add on - Present with Pear Deck

All Pear Decks are stored in Google Drive

Student can demonstrate understanding by getting them to engage right away (at the beginning, middle or end of lesson.) Teachers can review responses in real time.

Teachers can publish takeaways, each student can have a personal takeaway that is saved in Doc. You can share this with a parent if the student was absent.

Follow @Pear Deck on Twitter for more examples and ideas.

FlipGrid 101 by Amy R.