All right in this tutorial we're going to be
learning about a program called Pear Deck. So Pear Deck is basically a
program that allows you to interact with the slides presentations that your
teachers are presenting to you. So what we're
going to look at now is as though your teacher were
presenting a live lesson to you and I'm going to be showing you some
different ways that you can respond to the questions
that your teacher is asking. So the first thing that you're going to need to do
is go to joinpd.com in order to be able to access this
lesson and then once you get to joinpd.com,
it's going to ask you to enter a code. You're going to enter the code you see
on your teacher screen, which is in this case 'nakjv.' Once
you've entered the code you're going to be prompted to select your email address,
you can select how you are feeling today, and then
your teacher is going to see on the screen
on their side that students are connected, so they'll be seeing as
students come into Pear Deck. And then when your teacher is ready to start,
they're going to click, 'Start Class.' One thing you'll notice on your slide, so
this is the student slide over here, is that you're actually not able to move
forward. So if you keep trying to move forward on that slide, it's just going to
keep sending you back to the first slide. Your
teacher is in control over how they want to advance the slides.
And then something else I want to point out, if you come in late to the
presentation, you can still access the code up here as
well. Okay so when your teacher is ready to
move forward, your teacher is going to advance the slide
and then they are going to ask you a question that you are going to be
responding to. So in this case the question is, "How are
you feeling today?" So in order to answer that question,
you're going to go down here to 'Answer Question'
and you're going to write your answer, "I'm feeling great."
And when you type your response you don't need to hit enter or anything like
that, it will automatically show up when your
teacher selects 'Show Responses.' You'll notice here that
the responses are anonymous, so your name is not on it. If
your teacher asks you to put your name, you need to make sure that you add your
name there as well. And you'll see here how when you
typed, it just automatically started showing up on your teacher's slide.
Something else that your teacher might do is choose to lock the screen. So if
your teacher chooses to lock the screen, then you will no longer
be able to respond. Teachers might do that if they want you
to respond to a question in a certain period of time
and then when they're ready to unlock, they'll unlock your screen and then you
can respond. Okay so that type of question
basically just had you type a response. There are other types of questions
as well. So in the next question your teacher
is asking you to enter a numerical response.
So this question is, "What percentage of the time do you feel excited about
school?" If you go to 'Answer Question,' then you
can enter the number, you might say something like 75, then
your teacher can show responses and they'll show
all the classes responses along a number line.
For this slide, your teacher has actually sent a website out to you,
so when you go to 'Answer Question,' it's actually going to pop that website
directly for you on the screen, so it's really useful if
you're all reading an article together and your teacher just wants to share
that with you. And then on this slide, your teacher is asking you a multiple
choice question. So this question is, "What percentage of
students are typically engaged in classes you attend?" When you
go to 'Answer Question,' you can select one of the
answer choices that has already been given to you. And then just like the
other slides, when your teacher shows the responses,
you'll be able to see how all of your classmates have answered that question.
This next question is asking you to draw to show your response. So here the
question is, "How would you feel if you were in a
highly engaging class?" You can choose from some of these
different tools down here to select how you would want to draw
and then pick a color and you can draw your face. So for example if you just
wanted to draw a happy face like that, you could, and
then same thing, your teacher can show the
responses and all of your classmates' responses will
show up on this show responses slide. Okay the last one we're going to look at
is this draggable tool. So what your teacher has set up here are
two boxes and what you're supposed to do is drag
an icon over to which box you agree with.
Here you see your little heart icon and you're going to drag that heart icon
over to the statement you agree with. So if
you agree you think technology can help students be more engaged,
then you drag that over there, and when your teacher is ready to show responses
your teacher will be able to see all of the different places that students have
dragged their icons. Okay that's basically it for
Pear Deck. It's an awesome tool for teachers to be
able to create interactive lessons for their students
and I think as students, you're really going to like it, so have fun!