PEAR DECK

Today's tool of the day is PEAR DECK  

https://help.peardeck.com/article/26-getting-started-with-pear-deck

-- My favorite way to use Pear Deck, though, is through Google Slides. Pear Deck has created a Google Slides add-on. This makes it SUPER easy to make your slides interactive right from Google Slides.

1. Open a Google Slides presentation.
2. Click on the “Add-ons” menu and “Get add-ons …”.
3. Search for “Pear Deck” and click the blue “+ FREE” button.

The bonus with Pear Deck: You can turn any of those slides into interactive slides. Some of the options include having students …

• enter text
• enter a number
• choose from multiple choices
• interact with a live web page
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• Pear Deck has a slide library where you can choose pre-created activities …

• for the beginning of a lesson (check prior knowledge, ask what students are curious about)
• during the lesson (summarize, assess learning, gauge understanding)
• at the end of the lesson (retell what they learned, share feelings)

Set up your slide deck the way you want. The next step — let’s get students connected to it so they can interact! 

Click "Present with PEAR DECK" 

It will prompt students to go to joinpd.com (think “join Pear Deck”) and enter the join code.  

Students can now interact with your Google Slide!!!