Pear Deck Interactive Slide Presentation

Students will:

• be engaged learning about a specific topic by using their Chromebook and following along with the teacher’s slide, answering a variety of questions.

Vocabulary Words:

1. Interactive Slide: An interactive slide is where students can type on the slide.
    
2. Slide Library: A slide library gives teachers interactive slides to use at the beginning, middle, and end of the Google slide presentation.
    
3. Open Dashboard on Another Device: When you open a dashboard on another device, you will have access to individual student responses.
    
4. Student Paced: Student paced is where students will work through the slides on their own.

To prepare for this lesson:

• Watch a tutorial on how to create your own Pear Deck Slides.
   
• Go to your Google slides and add Pear Deck as an add on. On your Menu Bar you should see Add-Ons. 
   
• On the right side of your screen, you will see a slide library that will give you ideas for the beginning of the lesson, middle, and ending so you don’t have to come up with all the slides on your own.
   
• When you choose interactive slides, the students will be able to type on that slide.  
   
• You can edit the slides.  At the bottom, you can start from scratch and create your own. You can also turn any previous Google slides into interactive Pear Deck.
   
• When done creating the slides, click on Present. You will have to log in.  Students will go to joinpd.com and type in the code. Always remember that when you present, be sure to click on Pear Deck to present and not the regular Google slide presenter.
   

• While you are presenting, you can click on the slide navigator on the left to see your slides. You can project students’ responses, lock the slide, insert a new question. You can also click on the three dots in the bottom right corner (make full screen, open the dashboard in a new tab, open the dashboard on another device, turn on student-paced, end this session).

• When you open the dashboard, you will see individual student responses.  You can look at them using a list view, grid view, or overlay.

See Accommodations Page and Charts on the 21things4students.net site in the Teacher Resources. 

Directions for this activity:

1. Students will go to joinpd.com and type in the code.

2. Have students follow along with you and you can show them what to do.  

3. You can discuss the interactive slides as you teach your mini-lesson.

Different options for assessing the students:

• Observations
• Check for understanding

• Teachers will get immediate feedback on the slides. When you open the dashboard, you will see individual student responses. You can look at them using a list view, grid view, or overlay.