Pear Deck

What is Pear Deck? It is an app that gives the teacher the capability to take a PowerPoint, Google Presentation or PDF and incorporate various student activities to check for understanding and add engagement. The teacher can freeze the student screens and project student responds either individually or overlay them. Another plus is it is fully integrated with GAFE (Google Apps for Education). The video below demonstrates some of the features.

The short video below shows you how to get started with Pear Deck.

Pear Deck has a free version that includes access to Google Drive storage, Google Apps integration, three types of interactive question slides, create and import unlimited decks, project anonymized student responses and Pear Deck Vocabulary & Flashcard Factory

The premium version adds Teacher Dashboard, student-paced mode, post-session dashboard and review, share decks and student responses with Takeaways, draggable questions, drawing questions, and Google Classroom Integration. The cost is $149.00 a year.

http://www.controlaltachieve.com/2018/01/peardeck-templates.html is a complete explanation about Pear Deck templates.

Pear Deck also has an Add-on for Google Slides that gives the teacher the capability to add interactive slides to their presentations. The video below explains how to use the add-on.

You can have access to the premium version for the remainder of the school year for free. Yes, free!