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Pear Deck
an overview with Kira Durant
What is PearDeck?
Pear Deck aims to help teachers efficiently understand individual students’ progress in the classroom. Teachers create a presentation, or “Pear Deck,” in their Google Drive; students interact individually with questions within the Pear Deck while teachers monitor both individual and class progress. Pear Deck is available in free and paid versions. (EdSurge)
How does PearDeck work?
How does Pear Deck Work?
Presenting a PearDeck
Presenting a Pear Deck
Paid vs. Free Version
The paid version of PearDeck is better than the free version (see chart belowor click here for a larger image). If you would like to use PearDeck, my mission is to speak with Jenn about purchasing the paid version.
Step 1
Go to PearDeck.com and click Sign in with Google and then click ACCEPT. Choose the role that best describes you.
Step 2
Open a File: You can upload from google slides and insert questions.
OR...
You can create a completely new deck.
Step 3
Enable Google Classroom integration
Cool Things You Can Do (click here)
Use the Timer, Automatically Lock Student Screens, Create a Web Slide, Use Projector View and Session Dashboard at the Same Time, Google Classroom Integration, Quick Question, Automatically Grade your Pear Deck with Flubaroo
Examples (click here)
How Math Teachers use Pear Deck,
How ELA Teachers use Pear Deck,
How Science Teachers use Pear Deck,
How Social Studies Teachers Use Pear Deck,
How World Languages Teachers use Pear Deck,
Draggable(TM) Example Question - ELA
How ELA Teachers use Pear Deck,
How Science Teachers use Pear Deck,
How Social Studies Teachers Use Pear Deck,
How World Languages Teachers use Pear Deck,
Draggable(TM) Example Question - ELA
Why I love PearDeck and How I've used it in my classroom:
PearDeak makes direct instruction engaging and provides an easy and effective way to embed formative assessment. It works with google classroom (student's do not need to create accounts or go to another website). With the premium version absent students can go back to a presentation and engage with the formative assessments. You can grade PearDeck assessments with Flubaroo. Students who have trouble seeing the board now have it right on their screen. Students really like!
I have imported google slide decks into PearDeck that I had previously used for lecture. I have created new presentations directly in PearDeck. I have used single slide PearDecks with interactive web slides feature (see "Cool Thing you can do" link above).
Have Questions? Hit me up!
Email: kdurant@cuhsd.org
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Location: Room 35
Twitter: @durantDMHS
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