Nearpod Interactive Presentations

Nearpod Interactive Presentations

Increase your student's engagement and critical thinking skills

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What is Nearpod

Suggestions for Implementation

Tech Trainging Goals

Research Highlights

References

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Goals

Differentiation

Utilizing real-time data to identify student needs, and provide personalized supplemental support.

Upon reflection of the goals we set during our first coaching session, and your current teaching practices, it has been determined that Nearpod will be an effective tool to elevate and integrate more technology usage into your classroom.

Critical Thinking Skills

Find activities that allow students to utilize critical thinking skills.

Mastery of Content

Allow differentiation in ways that students can responde and show mastery of content.

Engagemenmt

Increase engagment and decrease off task behavior.

Personal Tech Skills

Grow in awareness of useful educational tech tools that engage students and improve teaching practices.

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Presentation

What is Nearpod

Nearpod is a presentation tool that allows teachers to create interactive presentations. The interactive elements can increase student engagement. Many of the elements also allow for differentiation, gamification, and assessment of student learning.

This genially will focus on adding a few specific interactive tools that are in alignment with your goals for this coaching process. Each tool will be accompanied by a brief description of its use, sugggestions for implementation, and a connection back to your goals. Below you will find a linked list of all of the tools Nearpod has to offer and descriptions of what they do. Feel free to peruse them at your convenience.

Suggestions for Implementation

Discussion Tools

Activities and Assesments

Create tools

Interactive tools

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Creating Tools within Nearpod

Nearpod has many pre-made, standard aligned lessons that you can access and use in their Nearpod library OR you can import your own premade PowerPoints, Google Slides, or PDFs to and add the following interactive elements. Many of these elements listed may already offer pre-made options to match your lesson.Create

• Slides - Create your own slides in this feature with all of the information your students will need.
• Slide Show - Add files that you want your students to scroll through. This will keep it in one easy-to-see place.
• Sway - Create a simple website/presentation to share.
• PDF - Upload a PDF
• Powerpoint - Upload any PowerPoint you already have created and make it interactive!
• Images - Upload any images you have or select from the nearpod library.
• Audio - Add audio as its own slide for your students to listen to.

How to upload a Google Slides into Nearpod

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Interactive Tools within Nearpod

Nearpod has many pre-made, standard aligned lessons that you can access and use in their Nearpod library OR you can import your own premade PowerPoints, Google Slides, or PDFs to and add the following interactive elements. Many of these elements listed may already offer pre-made options to match your lesson. Interactive:

• Video - Copy the URL for any video and add questions to check for understanding.
• Web Content - Share a link to articles and other websites.
• Flocabulary Video - Show an educational music video on the topic of your choice.
• BBC Video - Offers a variety of Science and SOcial Studies Documentaries.
• Brain Breaks - Allow your students to take a break during a long, strenous lesson with a fun, or calming video expereince.
• Nearpod 3D - Allow students to interact and explore objects in 3D.
• Simulation - Premade simulations for science and math offer a self guided, and assesed lab/real-world experience.
• VR Feild Trip - Travel through the world virtually and visit the many wonders of the world!

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Activities and Assessments

Nearpod has many pre-made, standard aligned lessons that you can access and use in their Nearpod library OR you can import your own premade PowerPoints, Google Slides, or PDFs to and add the following interactive elements. Many of these elements listed may already offer pre-made options to match your lesson. Activities and Assessments:

• Quiz- Create a multiple-choice quiz.
• Draw it - Students can respond by drawing a picture, inserting an image, or writing a response.
• Fill in the blank - Insert a passage with keywords missing for your students to fill in the blank.
• Memory Test - Check students understanding with a fun memory-matching game.
• Time to climb - A multiple choice quiz, but make it a game. Students answer questions to race and win the game.
• Matching - Check for understanding with a matching pair game. Students connect the two cards that match or that answer a question.

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Discussion Tools

Nearpod has many pre-made, standard aligned lessons that you can access and use in their Nearpod library OR you can import your own premade PowerPoints, Google Slides, or PDFs to and add the following interactive elements. Many of these elements listed may already offer pre-made options to match your lesson. Discussion:

• Collaborate Board - Have a class discussion right on the screen. Students can answer questions and have a discussion on the collaborative board. The newest features allows teachers to add columns on the discussion board!
• Flip - With a flip account, students can record and upload quick videos answering questions and sharing ideas.
• Poll - Take a poll on students' feelings, a vote for the class, understanding of the material, or a multiple choice question, all under poll.
• Open-ended question - Ask a question, and students can respond to you in text or audio format.

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Differentiate learning through a music video for auditory and visual learners.Increases engagment. Provides asseesment opportunities.

Interactive

Flocabulary

Allows for students to engage critical thinking skills. Allows students to show mastery of content in many different ways

Discussions

Collaborate

Practice or express mastery of content in a visual manner.

Activities and Assessments

Draw It

Check for understadning of student knowledge to determine the necessity for remediation or re-explanation.

Activities and Assessments

Quiz or Poll

MEETING YOUR GOALS

The interactive Tools chosen here best meet the goals set during coaching session #1 Click on Each section to learn more about each tool and find suggestions on implementation

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Poll

Quiz

Gather opinions, take a vote, or gauge understanding with a multiple-choice question.Key Features:

• Multiple-choice with no correct answer
• Share results with students in real-time
• Add media to your prompt

Add a series of multiple-choice questions to your lesson.Key Features:

• Auto graded questions
• Share results with students in real-time
• Add media to your prompt

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Flocabulary Video

Hip-hop videos and instructional activities that promote literacy and spark creativity.Key Features:

• Choose from a variety of subjects
• Promotes literacy with rhymes and music
• Lyric Lab

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Draw It

The Draw It activity allows students to respond and engage with materials using drawing toolsKey Features:

• Free-hand drawing
• Add custom backgrounds and media to prompt
• Interact with digital pencil, highlighter, and erasers
• Multiple color options

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Collaborate

Collaborate Board is an interactive board for class discussions and brainstorming.Key Features:

• Post text and images
• Hide student names
• Pre approve posts and comments

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Research Highlights

Increased Engagement

Technology

Critical Thinking Skills

Engagement, polls, and debates are known to increase Critical Thinking Skills. The poll questions, collaboration boards, and interactive elements offered in Nearpod help to acheive this goal.

Structure the lesson so students engage in communication, analysis, synthesis, problem-solving, evaluation, and reflection.

The use of technology is known to teach critical thinking skills and foster self-regulated learning. The ability to present multiple models can clarify complex concepts.

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References

• Slide 4

Nearpod. (2023, April 17). What is Nearpod? [Video]. Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/637091534

• Slide 5

Nearpod. (2020a, March 13). How to create a lesson using the Nearpod add-on in Google Slides [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF2lhn3OLCA

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Nearpod. (2021, April 29). How to use a Poll activity in a Nearpod lesson [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we0I4sSTvZU

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Nearpod. (2020b, October 7). Add Flocabulary video to a Nearpod lesson [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv1ogPkAcCM

• Slide 12

Nearpod. (2020a, October 7). Add Draw-It to a Nearpod lesson [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSeWXfpFns0

• Slide 13

Technology for Teachers and Students. (2019, November 25). Nearpod Collaborate Board Tutorial [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-5KjCaW8SU