Interpretive
Pear Deck
Pear Deck is a live slides presentation tool that allows students to interact with slides directly to provide responses by typing, drawing, choosing from multiple choices, and dragging items.
Nearpod
Nearpod is an instructional platform that allows teachers to create presentations that include quizzes, polls, videos, interactive whiteboards and open-ended tasks
Basic Applications of Pear Deck
Adding Interactive Activities into Slides with Pear Deck
Immediate typing responses
Teachers can ask some interpretive or evaluative questions to see if students understand the contents.
Draw, circle or color the answers
More response format is allowed. Students can make use of their creativity to illustrate their response.
Order the sentences
By arranging the sentences or phrases in order, students can test their understanding on the sequence of events or the syntactic structures.
Drag the items to the right position
This activity can help to test students' understanding on the prepositional phrases or locations.
Multiple choice
Understanding on factual information can be tested by asking students to select correct choices.
Basic Applications of Nearpod
Adding Interactive Activities with Nearpod
Teachers can do open-ended questions, matching pairs, quizzes, drawing and collaborative work with students
Open ended question
Open-ended questions can be set to ask for students' reflections and opinions. Teachers can also insert images and audios into the questions.
Matching pairs
Students would feel excited playing matching pairs game. Teachers can make the game even more challenging by setting a timer.
Quiz
Teachers can create quizzes and use them as formative assessment. Students can receive the score and feedback directly after they complete the quiz.
Draw it
Students can show their answers by drawing. Teachers can put everyone's response on the same page and share with the entire class.
Collaborate
Students can work on the same whiteboard so they can see the responses from their peers and teachers in real time.
Pear Deck Tutorial
Nearpod Tutorial
1. Open slides and choose Pear Deck (install in advance)
Google Slides→ Add-ons→ Peer Deck
2. Add interactive activities
Choose slide→ Go over the side bar→ Select Text/Choice/ Number/ Website/ Draw/ Draggable
*Do not cancel the bar (with a pear image) at the bottom
3. Share with students
Click "present with Peer Deck" on the upper right hand corner→ Ask students to visit joinpd.com and enter the join code
4. View students' performance
Choose different layout on the top left hand corner
Overlaid layout (all results on the same slide), grid layout and list layout (individual response)
1. login in and insert slides
New Presentation → Add Slide → Add Content → Slide
2. Add interactive activities
Add Slide → Add Activity → Choose Open ended question/ Matching pairs/ Quiz / Draw it / Collaborate!
3. Insert videos
Add Slide → Add Content → Video
4. Publish slides
Publish → Title → Select Grades / Subjects → Publish
5. Share with students
Live Section → Pin → Name
6. Download students’ reports
Home → Reports → Downloads → PDF
Advantages of using Pear Deck and Nearpod
Make the class more engaging with the incorporation of different interactive activities.
Encourage a variety of response format like typing, drawing, and dragging.
Allow the use of both visual and audio stimuli in the setting up of questions and quizzes.
Show real time anonymous responses from students.
Generate reports on individual performance.
Numerous examples and resources for different content areas can be found on the website.
Work Cited
Pear Deck website: https://www.peardeck.com/googleslides
Nearpod website: https://nearpod.com/
Pear Deck and Google Slides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YpcY7ngZfE&t=3s
Adding Interactive Activities in Nearpod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koXy6DFEfek&t=2s
Getting Started with Pear Deck to Make Your Google Slides Presentations Interactive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PJgsa-fnmA&t=0s
Create a Nearpod Lesson (Walk-through): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo6eq_gi_V8&t=3s