![]() by Tracy Fountain I hate powerpoint presentations. To be more specific, I hate sitting through them, as the presenter reads off of each slide. As a teacher, I have seen the shoulders of students slump as they realize they have to sit through another presentation. That all changed, though, when I discovered Pear Deck. Pear Deck allows you to create interactive presentations. The students join the presentation by entering in a code and it shows up on their ipads. There are various slides you can choose from: warm-up slides, where you can ask what they already know about the topic, and they answer from their ipads; reflective slides, where they show what they learned; and exit ticket slides, which shows how confident they are in knowing the material. In addition, custom slides can be made to ask various questions. Even better, they can do it anonymously. I was hooked as soon as I used it. However, I didn’t really want to make another slideshow when I already had them made in Google Slides. That’s when I discovered there is a Pear Deck Add-on that allows you to turn ANY Google Slide into a Pear Deck. Amazing! To get it, just open a Google Slide and click on Add-ons. Then, type Pear Deck into the search bar. Once you have it installed, you can choose the add-on and add the various slides. When you’re ready to present, click on Add-ons again and choose “Present with Pear-Deck.” Convenient? Yes. Cool? Definitely. The most amazing outcome that I’ve seen, though, is the engagement. The kids love to share their answers, and this way, you can hear from every student. When you’re ready to show their answers, you just click on the box at the bottom and the student responses come up. Pear Deck is just another tool in the technology toolbox that is making it easier to hear from every student.
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