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today we're going to be talking about
building
custom interactive lessons in nearpod
if really engaging students is your
issue and you're looking for just
getting that visibility of student
thinking out there i would recommend you
check out nearpod
what i'm going to focus on again is the
internal lesson builder in nearpod that
you can access here where it says my
lessons
and you have the create drop down menu
now i do want to point out if you're
relatively new to nearpod that
nearpod does also have a library of
content i would highly suggest that
you check it out there's all kinds of
great content integrations
in your pod that are definitely worth
looking at to build a lesson
what we're going to do here is go to the
create
button and we're going to go here
to lessons now what i want to forgot to
mention this in the beginning
that what we're going to do is i'm
basically going to show
all the different features very quickly
that you can use so there's content
features
and there's going to be activities
features what i'm also going to do
is essentially build a whole lesson i'll
build a lesson
in your pod following the five e's what
you're going to do
when you're in this lesson builder is go
here to add slide now you'll notice you
can bring some
files in we are going to do that a
little bit later but i just want to
start here with adding slides
so essentially what you can do here is
build
a slide deck out in the same way you
would with powerpoint in the same way
that you would with google slides
but you can effectively make
almost every single slide in here
interactive the first one here is the
slide
option so slide option is basically like
building
a google slide here so you can create
your own
opening to a lesson you can also change
the layout
so here if you wanted you could make
this say two element
right here and then you can also bring
in some media over here on the other
side
so here you could do something like
fun see what they have for a gif here
just bring in something
silly to start just build my own little
custom thing here
and then i can also change the way that
would it would look right there
i'm just going to go through and start
mixing some of these content
and activity slides now we can bring in
an activity so let's say for example
that
we're going to teach something like the
respiratory system
so i might give students instructions
to draw what you think the
respiratory system looks like
now you can also add timers to these so
you can go up here to the timer button
and you can say that they have two
minutes
for example to do this drawing now
students would
have some drawing tools that they could
use in order to draw
the respiratory system so you'll see
they have drawing tools there's a
highlighter tool they can add some text
and image things like that now bring in
some content right so
you'll notice that i'm very loosely here
following the five e's
i'll talk more explicitly about that
when i actually build an actual lesson
not this kind of fake lesson here i'm
not going to show every single one there
are a few that i really like here
one absolutely is the video tool this is
their newest tool
the video tool is essentially an
integrated ed puzzle
where you can add interactive questions
to videos
web content can be good if you want to
have students be able to open up a
separate web page
i like nearpod 3d so i'm going to show
you that right now add a
3d image of the respiratory system
so i'll click on it click done and then
it's going to bring in an image that
students will be able
to manipulate get
closer to zoom in on move around
as they would like so it's just just a
a neat tool that's there for you if you
are really trying to build your students
conceptual understanding
vet simulation tool so uh this is
particularly helpful
for math science it's actually only
really math science content
let's say you did need to teach students
how to do fractions and you were
practicing
fraction operations what you can do is
bring
one of these activities in and it
essentially becomes an interactive
activity that students can work
on in class so this
is a series of different levels we'll
just go here to
level one and essentially this is
building students conceptual
understanding right so there's no words
here describing what to do you could of
course give instructions or part of the
the point of this is to have students
puzzle through this and figure this out
virtual field trips i also really like
these are going to essentially generate
a 360 degree
image you don't have to have virtual
reality headsets to use these
you could bring in that 360 degree image
and then they'll be able to
essentially drag it around they can
look at that place the collaborate board
is basically
if the video is the edpuzzle integration
the collaborate board
is the padlet tool that they've
integrated into nearpod
students can post responses so they
could post observations
you can write a description down below
so the bbc video
content tool is it's okay i i liked it
before they brought in the interactive
video tool
it's basically just gonna bring in some
videos from bbc that are not
interactive so not as effective anymore
i
so i wouldn't you know this one it's
fine but not anything particularly
special
the sway integration is is kind of cool
these are basically just going to be
digital pamphlets
of information it's going to have some
images
it's going to have some key ideas about
this concept
so it's just providing some visual
reinforcement some key pieces of
information about that concept
slideshow is just going to be series of
pictures
that's you know that's great i think
totally use them
that's just series of pictures audio is
going to allow you to bring in
an audio file pdf viewer will
allow you to upload a pdf a better way
of being able to bring in pdfs so that
you can actually make them interactive
is by using the drawing tool what we'll
say
is annotate then what you can do is go
to
upload background image now they can
also
draw over the text so they can use a
highlight tool
they can annotate for unknown words
matching pairs
is also a lesson or also an activities
tool
that can be useful so here what you
could do
is let's say you were teaching some
vocabulary
and you were teaching agriculture then
what you could do
is search for a picture of
agriculture farming pull that in and
that's going to create a pair when i
click preview
what a student will do and you can
imagine you know let's say that there
we've made a lot of these
then students would match those around
the flip grid integration you can also
have students
respond via video in flipgrid and then
be able to respond to each other with
this flipgrid integration
you would have to still make the lesson
here in flipgrid
then you'd have to get these links and
you'd have to
put them in you'll see that it's just
going to essentially take
students to the nearpod interface when
they get to that slide
what i want to show right now is how to
actually build a logical lessons
but what i'm going to do right now is
build a ela lesson
around the skill of
identifying character traits and we're
going to have students
identify character traits based on
direct characterization
and in direct characterization so we're
going to have an engage portion
we're going to have students explore
explain
elaborate and then there's going to be
an evaluation piece at the end
so we're going to do ela lesson here
i'll bring in
something i like the gif so i'll bring
that in
we can change the style there
what we're going to do to start is
bring in a collaborate board i'm going
to ask them
what are some characteristics
of a person you admire to actually
start to get students to norm and learn
about characterization i'm going to go
here to add slide
i'm going to bring in a video they have
added
a ton of content pre-made content with
pre-made
questions right now this video doesn't
really have
questions that are targeted in the way
that i want them to be targeted
because they're not asking students
about direct and indirect
characterization yet
so what i would do is i would find those
places in
the video where it talks about the skill
that i'm trying to apply so
right here she's talking about direct
characterization
and then you can add an activity
so now we're talking about indirect
characterization so i could add
another interactive question about that
i'm going to bring in
a fill in the blank activity here the
idea here
is that i am identifying key points from
that video that i just played
that i want to review as a check for
understanding
to see whether or not students are
understanding this key idea click on the
word
so i know that i want students to be
able to identify indirect for example
and let's say i also want students to be
able to identify this word trait
we would get a sense of whether or not
they were understanding it we're going
to go to
draw it i want students to identify
one example of direct
characterization tell students that
we have five minutes for example i'm
going to
add the open ended question here i'll
ask
students to write a one
two two paragraph story
about a person they admire
now you can add media video instructions
here then i'm going to close this lesson
out
with an evaluation now you could do the
regular
quiz tool for an evaluation which is
going to be kind of
a regular quiz which is fine i would
recommend you do
time to climb instead it's a competition
so here you can make your own questions
i'm going to show you how you can run
this live with students so we'll go here
to
save and exit this is our
characterization lesson
and you could run this asynchronously i
really like nearpod though for
live lessons so you're in google me
you're in zoom
you have students open up the
link that you're going to share with
them and you have them pull that over
to half their screen and then on the
other half of the screen you can still
have them
watching your live feed through
zoom through google me you can choose
whether or not you want to share your
screen with them
set this up by going here to live
participation
you will get some different options for
how you could share it you can
very easy ways to just grab the link
here this is one way to do it students
can just go and then they can enter the
code
and then they're going to enter their
name and you're going to start to see
the roster of students as they're coming
through
and i'm in full control right as the
teacher
so as i'm advancing through the slides
once the interactive features come up
then all of some different options so
for this one for example i can approve
or choose whether or not i want to
approve student answers as they're
coming in
now the video feature i would recommend
that you set this up so that it's on
this device only so what that's going to
do
is make you in control of the pace of
the video
and when they get to that question okay
it's going to pop
up now we're going to have them do some
basic fill in the blanks so
now they're going to drag so they'll
click those
and what they can do is bring them in
it'll tell the student four out of four
i will also be able to see who got what
and what their score was as they're
coming through
now what students are going to do is
draw it so when i click start activity
now students are applying this skill
and you'll notice here that i as the
teacher i'm basically able to see this
entire workspace so i can see what
students are doing
and then you can also share these just
like i shared the other answers you can
share these back with the class
all right now we're going to have
students apply
the knowledge in a deeper way so this is
where they're going to write
they'll click submit i'll start to see
their answers coming through
this last piece is that evaluate piece
where we're going to place a gamified
quiz
it's just much more fun than doing a
regular old bland quiz to
have a little game like this so
recommend that you check this out
it doesn't have to be high stakes it can
just be a way to see what students know
as a
informal formative assessment at the end
you