Pear Deck

Pear Deck Bills Itself as the Fastest Way to Transform Presentations into Classroom Conversations and We Agree!  

Take your google slide show and transform it into an engaging interactive lesson for your students.  You can do this as a class and control the pacing of the lesson or you can set it so that students can work at their own speed.  Pear Deck is offers a trial subscription.  Once the teachers in my school tried it, they decided to include a school subscription in their building budget and use it almost daily! Just load a google slide show, add the Pear Deck add-on and start engaging students.  You can use the library of questions already created in Pear Deck or make your own.  

Pear Deck offers a library of resources, slides, tips and ideas for implementing Pear Deck.  They also partner with Newsela and a Daily Deck!  Wow!  Start with the classroom culture and move to other presentation ideas! 

Here are some Geeky Teacher directions and specifics about how to get started! 

20 Tools and Ideas For Using Primary Sources With Technology! Oh, Those Amazing Web 2.0 Tools

Web 2.0 Tools Meet Primary Sources. Two Geeky Teachers share ideas for Using Technology to Highlight Primary Sources in the Classroom.

Well we started with 10 ideas and once we multiplied it with primary sources we loved, and great tools to use, we ended up with over 250 ideas for using primary sources in the classroom! History, Art, Historic Preservation, Science...it's all there!

We are thrilled to be presenting at the National Council for Social Studies (#NCSS17) and even happier that we can share our love of primary sources and technology with participants and friends at the conference in San Francisco.

We are deeply proud to be part of the team from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Regional Center in Colorado who are presenting in San Francisco and will be tweeting out resources this week (and next) to showcase ideas on how to merge Web 2.0 and Social Media tools with the rich collections and digital resources from the Library of Congress.

If you don't know about the Library of Congress TPS program check out their links here: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/tps/

Here's a list of great tools and ideas! Check some of them out and bring non-fiction, primary sources, critical thinking, and 21st century skills into your classroom!Check out the links below for social studies, literacy, student engagement, science, math, art, architecture, and historic preservation ideas using primary sources from the Library of Congress (LOC.gov )

 

Adobe Animoto

Blabberize

Campayn

Easel.ly

Edpuzzle

Flipgrid Flipboard

GSuite

I-nigma

Instagram

Jigsaw Planet

Kahoot

Livebinder

Minecraft

Nearpod Padlet

Peardeck

Picmonkey

Pinterest

Popplet

Quizzlet

SMORE

Symbaloo

Twitter

Vocaroo

WeVideo

You Might Be a Geeky Teacher If You Are Nearpod Certified!

Nearpod is a wonderful application that allows teachers to control student screens, delivery and the pace of their lesson.  It is so easy to use!  You can start with one of their lessons from the library or upload your PowerPoint or Google slides and then add interactive quizzes, 3D puzzles, virtual reality field trips, drawing, memory games, websites and so much more to your lesson! 

Check out this training tutorial to get started!

I'm Certified!  You can earn a badge too! 

I wish someone had told me:

-How easy Nearpod is!

-How to upload my slides and add cool stuff!

-How to see the storyboard to differentiate lesson! (scroll over the bottom and slides will pop up and you can decide what your students interact with next)

- How to become a Nearpod Certified Educator!
Click on the link to see the requirements.  Attend a webinar or training sessons, create your  account, teach 5 lessons and apply to Nearpod!  




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