PEAR DECK in GOOGLE SLIDES || WEEK 6
Google slides is one of the most common Web 2.0 used by educators and students. Google Slides is a presentation program included as part of a free, web-based software office suite offered by Google within its Google Drive service. It is basically a simple presentation tool that is very similar to Microsoft's PowerPoint. It is widely used because it saves you time, keeps you organized, and allows you to connect and collaborate with your students in real-time. Google Slides has so much potential for powerful technology integration in the classroom. It is easy to share (e.g. via a link or embedded on a site), collaborate with others, access anywhere there is Internet access, blend into existing Google sites and add drawings, images, and video. These are all beneficial to be used as a teaching and learning tool.
I believe most of us know how to use it as it is pretty much similar to Microsoft Powerpoint with just some additional features. Therefore, I wouldn't write in details regarding Google Slides. On the other hand, I'm interested in the add-on in Google Slides, which is called Pear Deck.
How to : Quick Tutorial on Google Slides
What is Pear Deck?
Pear Deck is an interactive presentation tool used to actively engage students in individual and social learning. Students log into the presentation with unique access codes and interact with questions while teachers monitor student and whole-class progress. Pear Deck is a freemium service; teachers and schools can access a wide array of tools and resources for free or opt to subscribe to a premium account. Pear Deck combines slide presentations with interactive questions. Founded in 2014, the company’s goal is to foster inquiry-based learning and to bridge the gap between individual and social learning.
How to get started?
1. Build your Slides
Pear Deck presentations are built in Google Slides or PowerPoint Online lesson with the Pear Deck for Google Slides Add-on or the Pear Deck for PowerPoint Online Add-in. You can:
a. Make a new Slides presentation from scratch or add Pear Deck interactivity to slides you've already made with Custom Interactive questions.
b. Insert pre-made Slide Templates into any presentation.
c. Copy a fully interactive, pre-made deck from the Pear Deck Orchard for your own use.
2. Present your lesson and have students join
a. Present your lesson by clicking Start Lesson in the Pear Deck sidebar or on your Pear Deck Home page. Before you present, require email login if you want to know who joins your Session and leaves each response.
b. In the new window, choose Student or Instructor Paced Mode.
c. Your new Session begins. Every Pear Deck Session contains Join Instructions for students. On their own devices, students go to joinpd.com and enter the five-letter Join Code OR you can copy the Session link (Give students a link) and share it with them. Students just click the link to join.
d. Run the lesson on your Projector View. Close the Join Instructions and hover over the bottom of the slide to open the Navigation Bar. Use the controls on the to run the presentation.
i - In Instructor Paced Session, students' screens stay synced with yours.
ii- In Student Paced Sessions, students get simple navigation controls on the Student Vies that allow them to move through all of the slides asynchronously. Therefore, you don't even have to be there and you can even turn off your device.
e. Get insight into individual students' progress. The Dashboard View syncs up to the Projector View, so you can use it to control the presentation on a separate device. You can see who’s stuck or confused, and even click on the stars to automatically highlight or hide good examples or misconceptions on the Projector View in an Instructor Paced Session.
3. Extend the lesson
Sometimes you don’t make it through the whole lesson during class. Other times, students are absent and need to work through the lesson on their own, or you may simply want the theme to go back for review. When you need to extend your lesson, here are two great options:
a. Turn on Student-Paced Mode
Student-Paced Mode lets students navigate through the slides at their own pace and respond to all of the Interactive Slides. Later, their answers can be viewed by reopening the Projector and Dashboard Views, so you can talk about their answers the next day in class. Open either of these Views again from your Pear Deck Home Sessions page.
b. Publish Takeaways™ (a Premium feature, available when you log in with Google)
When the Session is over, you can give each student personalized notes. This is best when you want students to review all the content from the lesson and reflect on their own answers. Since a Takeaway™ is a Google Doc, you can easily share it with parents or tutors when a student needs help at home.
Now, you're good to go! It may look complicated. Therefore, I've included a link of my explanation video on how to use the add-on Pear Deck in Google Slides. Then, you can conclude that it is so easy and convenient to use after watching the video.
EDUCATORS :
Educators can use Pear Deck to create interactive presentations in which it is very crucial to create an engagement between the educator and the students. During each session, teachers can see the presentation, as well as the students, participating. Student responses appear on the teacher screen in real-time. Educators have the option to lock student screens to prevent them from changing their answers.
Pear Deck also lets educators determine when and what responses to share with the whole class via the main presentation screen. Educators can highlight a specific student response, toggle between responses, or in some instances share all student responses. Student responses are anonymous to everyone except the original responder and the teacher. During the presentation, educators can backtrack to previous slides and add impromptu questions.
Pear Deck lets educators build interactive decks from their computer or tablet. Educators sign in to Pear Deck with their Google login where they’ll find Pear Deck materials available in their Google Drive. Pear Deck presentations are created in Google Drive and save just like Google Docs; thus they can be organized and shared with other Google users. Educators have the option to present and control each deck directly from their computer or tablet.
While building their decks, educators can choose from four question types:
Draggable questions take the form of agree/disagree or thumbs up/thumbs down
Drawing questions allow students to free draw in a blank space or on a grid
Free response questions have short text, long text, and number capabilities
Multiple choice questions take the form of yes/no, true/false, or A, B, C, D
STUDENTS :
The prior reason is by having an interactive presentation, it excites and attracts the students' attention and will to study. This is due to the fact that students are able to interact with the educator's presentations and lessons. It also allows students to work independently to respond to various questions throughout the ‘deck’. It also increases the performance of the students. Active Learning provides students with many opportunities to re-engage with the same material, leading to better understanding, deeper thinking, and higher levels of achievement. All in all, active learning engages students in the process of learning through activities and/or discussion in class, as opposed to passively listening to an expert. It emphasizes higher-order thinking and often involves group work.
In conclusion, I strongly believe that Pear Deck in Google Slides is one of the great platforms of Web 2.0 that can be used as a teaching and learning tool. It is easy to use and accessible to everyone. It helps in producing active learning materials, in which it is very significant in students' learning process as active learning has more benefits to be compared with passive learning.
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