This past year at my school site 1/2 of the staff has been using PearDeck as their way to lecture to students in the 21st century. Pear Deck Slides is the quickest way to transform presentations into classroom conversations. Design beautiful slides and engage your class with interactive questions, discussion starters, formative assessments, checks-for-understanding, and exit tickets that get every single student actively thinking and participating.
The typical flow of a Pear Deck lesson has 4 main parts:
One of the many features PearDeck provides is that students' screens will stay synced with the teachers, so they will be able to see the slide content by either looking at the projector screen or at their own devices. When the teachers gets to an interactive slide, students will also see an answer input on their screen, which will look different depending on what kind of question you made. Another great feature about PearDeeck is their student paced mode and the ability to publish student takeaways. These two features are great when students are absent and need to go through the lesson on their own, or sometimes the teacher want students to go back through the content to review and reflect. I love using PearDeck and the many features that gives old lesson plans new life in this new age of technology. Learning PearDeck was super easy and fun to do. I can take my old Google Slide presentation and upload it onto PearDeck and make it into a interactive lecture. Here is an example PearDeck I have used: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12ZP1jRucvSzavVF8ZBFqFtkWBVsNczi0/view?usp=sharing
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Scott Marsden
6/12/2018 04:26:30 pm
James,
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James Mac
6/13/2018 09:52:26 pm
Pear Deck is a paid product, however, if you create a free account I believe they give you the first few decks for free. Then if you want to create more then you need to pay. Plus, they will only give you some features on the free version, while the paid version you get all the bells and whistles. My site paid for a year's license but only 20 out of 65 teachers used Pear Deck and he might not pay for it this year. But if he doesn't I will pay out of my own pocket because I really like this app.
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