Pear Deck
Contents:
Introductory Video (recommended)
Pear Deck with PowerPoint
Pear Deck's Tutorials
Improvising Questions
Training
Pear Deck makes it easy to turn a Google Slides or PowerPoint presentation into an interactive activity to engage your audience. The premium version of Pear Deck is available to all teachers and students who sign in to the service using a d-e.org Google or Microsoft login.
Introductory Video
Pear Deck with PowerPoint
In order to use Pear Deck with Power Point, we need to import the Power Point into Google Slides. You will see a brief video demonstration on how to do that to the left, but as the video recommends, you can also use this iorad link to learn how to import a Power Point at your own pace.
Pear Deck's Tutorials
Pear Deck also creates their own tutorial videos. To the left is video #2, which teaches you to make a Pear Deck from scratch. You can find all the videos here, including:
6 - How to Use the Teacher Dashboard as a Remote Control
10 - How to Give Students Personalized Notes
13 - Add audio to Pear Deck Slides
Improvising questions
To the left you will see a video preview of the 8-minute demonstration given by Charlie at the US Faculty meeting, which you can view better by clicking here.
This video walks you through opening a Google Slides from the Pear Deck homepage and then teaches you to ask an improvised question using the "New Prompt" feature. It also demonstrates what it will look like to see students responding to your questions.
Training
To the left you will see a video preview of the one-hour D-E specific training session, which you can view better by clicking here. You can also find a student-paced version of the slides from that training here.
Pear Deck also offers recorded and live (online) training multiple days a week. Click "More Training Info" below for more details.
More Training Info
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On-demand / Asynchronous training
A recording of the one-hour D-E specific training session on 11/17/20 is available.
Click here for a learner-paced session using the training slides.
Pear Deck Institute - This asynchronous training portal is good for teachers who want to learn Pear Deck at their own pace. Each module takes about an hour to complete and includes an assessment you can take to earn a certificate of completion. Beginner, intermediate and expert modules are available.
More Information
Flashcard Factory: Students work together in small groups to create vocabulary flashcards by creating example sentences and illustrations for list of teacher vocabulary terms. The teacher and students can review the cards and select the final set together as a class. Finally, the teacher prints the final set or exports it to the free version of Gimkit. (Gimkit is a gamified way for student to practice recall of material you might put on flashcards.)