Tech Tip Tuesday

• Adobe Flash Player
• Peardeck
• Nearpod
• Ott-O-Matic "Slip and Slide" Add on for Google Slides
• Google App Shortcuts

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Monica Hofmann

Adobe Flash Player has announced that everything that runs Adobe Flash Player will hit the end of life Dec. 31, 2020. This will affect all sites and programs that use Flash Player. You will no longer be able to "Enable Flash Player" on a site by site basis. We will not support any work arounds and want to encourage you to find alternative content.

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Imagine if you could engage every student in your class, every day. What if you could instantly see who’s confused and who’s ready for more? That’s the power of Pear Deck. And now, with the Pear Deck for Google Slides Add-on, you can add the magic of formative assessments and interactive questions to your presentations right from Google Slides.

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Nearpod helps you make any lesson interactive whether in the classroom or virtual. A teacher can create interactive presentations that can contain Quiz’s, Polls, Videos, Collaborate Boards, Virtual Field Trips, and more. You can access thousands of pre-built K-12 standards-aligned lessons or upload your existing lessons and make them interactive.

The students can access a teacher’s presentation through a code and the teacher then moves the class through the presentation and lets students interact with the media as they go. Teachers can also opt for Student-Paced mode, where the student controls the flow of the lesson. This mode is perfect for sub days, weather days, homework assignments, or independent work.

Effortlessly insert slides into multiple student presentations at one time using Slip-in-Slide. You can choose to send one or many slides from your presentation to an assignment folder in Classroom.

Push any number of slides to an entire folder of student presentations making distribution of new materials quick and easy. Integrates with the folder structure of Google Classroom to send your slides directly into students existing presentations. Perfect for a Google Slides based interactive notebook.