Embedded Files
Pear Deck is an add-on to Google Slides. You can take an existing slide deck and add interactive questions to increase engagement. You can make a slide deck that you used in the classroom accessible for students remotely by adding your audio instruction to the slide. Another accessibility feature built in to Pear Deck is Immersive Reader. In addition to creating interactive lessons for students, you can use the tool for formative assessment. With real time feedback and Takeaways, you have a space to connect with students about their learning.
Pear Deck is an add-on to Google Slides. You can take an existing slide deck and add interactive questions to increase engagement. You can make a slide deck that you used in the classroom accessible for students remotely by adding your audio instruction to the slide. Another accessibility feature built in to Pear Deck is Immersive Reader. In addition to creating interactive lessons for students, you can use the tool for formative assessment. With real time feedback and Takeaways, you have a space to connect with students about their learning.
Tool Resources
Tool Resources
Getting Started Video Library
Getting Started Video Library
On this site, you will find 14 videos that are all less than 4 minutes showing tips and how to get started with Pear Deck. Most of your beginning questions can be answered right here.
Pear Deck Handbook for Remote Learning.pdfGetting Started Guide
Getting Started Guide
This is a comprehensive guide to the use of Pear Deck. It is posted from last year, there are a few updates to the features of Pear Deck but it is a great resource to learn the basic features of the tool.
Add Audio
Add Audio
In this Quick Tip Video, you will learn how to use Pear Deck's Add Audio feature for your presentations. Add Audio lets you record or upload audio files to lessons and enables students to listen to those clips from their own devices.
Student-Paced Mode
Student-Paced Mode
Pear Deck is often used to engage students in a lesson in real time. But you can also give a Pear Deck lesson to a student who missed class, flip your lesson, differentiate or scaffold instruction during class, and more!
Teacher Dashboard
Teacher Dashboard
The Pear Deck Teacher Dashboard gives you superpowers! Did you know you can launch your Dashboard from your phone or tablet? Once you know, you're free to roam the class while keeping the lesson moving and students on task.
Add Questions
Add Questions
Have a lesson ready to go, but know it would be better with Pear Deck magic? In this Quick Tip video, learn how to quickly add interactivity and formative assessments to your existing Google Slides lessons.
Student Takeaways
Student Takeaways
A Pear Deck Takeaway is a notes document for your students. After you finish presenting your Pear Deck lesson, you can choose to publish Takeaways for each student in the Session. Doing so creates a Google Doc in the student's Drive with slides from the lesson and their answers!
Feedback
Feedback
Multiple Opportunities
Multiple Opportunities
Through the Pear Deck Takeaways or the Feedback option in Pear Deck, there are many ways that teachers can offer feedback in the classroom.
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