101: Making Learning Interactive
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About the Presenter
and at a STEM school in Santa Barbara (4th grade)
About the Facilitator
Middle School
Agenda
What is Pear Deck?
Pear Deck is a tool that makes any slide presentation interactive. It’s great for formative assessment, temperature checks, and just plain getting your students engaged & participating in the lesson!
download - everything runs in a web browser
Join me in today’s deck!
Pear Deck is on a mission to help teachers deliver
powerful learning moments to every student, every day.
Pear Deck Awards & Recognition
Best Tools for Virtual and
Distance Learning, 2020
EdTech Program Winner, 2015
Research-Based Design
Product Certification, 2020
SXSW Winner, 2015
Winner, 2020
How familiar are you with Pear Deck?
What if you could ensure you would be able to hear from every single student in your class, every single day?
Nah.
Amazing!!
Drag the icon over the �adverb in each sentence.
The team eagerly awaited their next opponent.
The player politely asked the official a question.
The teams shook hands sincerely after the game.
Circle the correct choice: “La camisa del chico es roja.”
Draw or type to label the the parts of the cell:
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Legend
Gravitational Force
Frictional Force
Applied Force
Air Resistance Force
Draw arrows to indicate the forces in action.
Drag the flag �to Algeria
Estimate: How many jellybeans can fit in �a Mason jar?
How did you decide on that number?
Simplify the expression, then solve. �Show your work!
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Getting Set Up: The Add-on
To use Pear Deck, you need to have the add-on for Google Slides:
sidebar and start transforming your presentations!
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Getting Set Up: The Extension
The Pear Deck Power-Up Extension ensures that videos, slide animations, and GIFs embedded in your Pear Deck slides play as they should when you present with Pear Deck:
*NOTE: Adding the extension may trigger Pear Deck to appear as its own option in your Slides menu bar!
You might even see this handy link the first time you open the Pear Deck Sidebar!
Templates
From the Template Library, you can add fully editable slide templates in any subject.
You can use a template as is, or personalize it by changing the text, the background, the graphics, even the question type!
Stress Check
I’m in a good space and can focus
Something is bothering me, but I can still focus
I can’t manage my emotions or behaviors right now
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Question Types
Draggable
Draw
Website
Number
Choice
Text
You can add a question of any type to any existing slide!
Multiple Choice Questions
The only place you can preview the answer choices is below the slide in the notes section:
To change the answer choices, you need to click “Choice” in the Pear Deck Sidebar
You can add up to 26 choices!
How well do you know the word sublimation?
Draggable Questions
You can preview the draggable icons at the bottom of the slide:
To edit or add icons, click “Draggable” in the Pear Deck Sidebar
You can add up to 5 icons & change their color, shape or size!
Locate
Legend
[Australia]
[Africa]
[Asia]
[Europe]
All you need to do is...
Open Google Slides (and verify that you’re in your s. account!)
Install the Pear Deck Add-on
Start building amazing interactive presentations!
Directions: Draw arrows to connect the steps and create a Flow Map.
Work Time
You will now have some time to get yourself set up with
Pear Deck & practice adding interactivity to a Slides presentation!
If you need help,
just click into the “Help Room” Meet - link in the chat!
Presenting with Pear Deck
When you’re ready to present your Pear Deck lesson, be sure to click the button in the Pear Deck sidebar that says “Start Lesson.”
Remember, green means go!!
Presenting with Pear Deck
You’ll be prompted to choose your lesson mode - to run a synchronous lesson with your students, select “Instructor-Paced Activity.”
Having Students Join
You can:
(can be tricky - click here to learn more)
Having Students Join
You can decide if you want students to log in with their email addresses or join anonymously.
If you turn on Require Student Logins in your settings, students will join with their email addresses, allowing you to see and track each student’s progress in real time.
If you choose not to Require Student Logins by turning them off, students will join your session anonymously and be assigned an animal avatar and nickname.
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Draw the planet that comes after Jupiter!
Three Views: In the Classroom
Teacher View
Student View
Three Views: Remote Learning
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① View teacher’s presented screen in Meet
② Keep Pear Deck student view open in another tab to interact & respond
① Present tab in Meet showing
the Pear Deck “projector view”
③ Open teacher dashboard in another tab or on a second device
Accessing Your Sessions
Click the three lines in the upper right of the Pear Deck sidebar to open a small menu:
From here, you can click on “Review Sessions” to see all of your current and previous Pear Deck sessions
Account Settings
From your sessions page, you can click your profile pic, click “My account,” then click on “Settings.”
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Account Settings
Click the toggles to turn particular features on or off
What questions do you have about Pear Deck at this point?
Need a quick review?
Check out Pear Deck’s help videos!
Is reading more your style?
Download the ebook!
Want to learn more?
Dive into the Pear Deck Institute!
Resource Links
*They would prefer that you download your own copy, but if you’re having trouble, you can view mine here.
Name of Workshop: Pear Deck 101
Department that offered the PD: Instructional Support & Improvement
ashleighlor@busd.k12.ca.us / office hours