Nearpod

In One Sentence

A digital tool available on any web enabled device that allows you to actively engage students in content and formatively assess their understanding.

What's the Point?

  • The interactive lesson is all in one place.

  • You can share lessons with other teachers and collaborate.

  • There is a library of already created lessons that you can edit.

  • Student-paced lessons allow for self-paced lessons, differentiation, station rotations, and allows for real-time feedback.

  • You can share student responses.

  • You can run student data reports.

  • You can search lessons by Common Core Standards.

How is it Used by Teachers?

How is it Used by Students?

  • Virtual Field Trips

  • Assessment

  • Interactive Lessons

  • Embed tools/resources/websites

  • Provide immediate feedback

  • Class Discussions (Collaborate Board)

  • Built in scaffolding

  • Differentiate to meet all student's needs

  • Peer-to-Peer feedback

  • Digital student work can be completed and collected

  • Use the Nearpod Add-On feature in Google Slides to create the Nearpod

  • Share Nearpod to Microsoft Teams

  • Track student attendance and participation

  • In "Live" mode, teachers have complete control of student devices.


  • Complete and turn in work

  • Collaborate

  • Travel on virtual field trips

  • Take quizzes and receive immediate feedback

  • Receive feedback and discuss with peers/teachers

  • Self-paced learning

  • Access to tools that allows you to interact with peers

  • Demonstrate understanding through various features (e.g., polls, Time to Climb, memory, collaborate board, open ended questions)

Checklists

A Quality Nearpod Presentation...

All Presentations

  • start with greeting, making connections, or warm up

  • include a bite-sized focused lesson objective

    • simple learning target that is aligned to standards

  • follow I do, we do, you do structure

  • check for understanding throughout

    • include student interactions, collaboration, feedback

  • formative assessment at the end

Additional Considerations for Student-Paced

  • include more models

    • videos, examples, etc.

  • include more interactive opportunities for students

    • virtual field-trips, collaborative platforms

  • include formative assessment with self-checks

  • include more technology support

    • how to videos, pictures, instructions, etc.

Content Planning

Formative Assessment

Instruction

Community Building