Nearpod

Nearpod Professional Learning Session

"Effective technology integration is achieved when its use supports curricular goals. It must support four key components of learning: active engagement, participation in groups, frequent interaction and feedback, and connection to real-world experts." -edutopia

Nearpod Screencast Video

How can I start a Nearpod lesson with a question?
FYI-Nearpod now includes an Essential Question with each presentation.

(Thank you, Anne Scott)
Create a Design Thinking Question to specify a problem to be solved for a specific audience:

How might we, as chefs, plan a dinner menu to show tourists what foods are produced in our area?
How might we, as engineers, design a wheelchair so a Lego mini-figure can roll up a ramp?

Create a question based on what an expert might ask:

How might we, as historians, evaluate the impact of the Constitutional Convention?
How might we, as musicians, remember the notes on the staff?
How might we, as artists, create a 3D sculpture to show a feeling?
How might we, as scientists, compare the force needed to move two different toy cars?
How might we, as citizens, communicate to others the importance of good behavior?
How might we, as readers, find the main idea of a text?
How might we, as screen writers, turn this novel into a movie?

Create an Essential Question:

Is open-ended; that is, it typically will not have a single, final, and correct answers thought-provoking and intellectually engaging, often sparking discussion and debate
Calls for higher-order thinking, such as analysis, inference, evaluation, prediction. It cannot be effectively answered by recall alonePoints toward important, transferable ideas within (and sometimes across) disciplines.
Raises additional questions and sparks further inquiry.
Requires support and justification, not just an answer.
Recurs over time; that is, the question can and should be revisited again and again.

Start with something intriguing:

Painting of Native Americans, letter from Thomas Jefferson

Infusing the Standards:

Tips on using Nearpod in your math class

Tips and tricks on integrating Nearpod into your classroom

Click here for a Getting Started Tutorial

What is Nearpod?
Nearpod is a web service that lets you develop and stream slide-show based presentations over the internet. This can either be done individually by each student on their own, or in a classroom in a live streaming session. Its primary benefit is that it allows for heavy student interaction. The presentation can be streamed in real time over the students’ devices.

A Nearpod is an engaging and interactive presentation.
Nearpods are standards based presentations-browse standards below to determine what you want to teach and then search for Nearpods that meet the particular standard on www.nearpod.com.
Ga Performance Standards
ISTE Technology Standards

The presenter has free control over the flow of the presentation, and is able to to navigate forward or back through the presentation as it appears on the audience’s screens.
Presentations can either be created from scratch, or imported from a PowerPoint, PDF, or other files from your computer. Presentations can include static pages that display content, but can also consist of pages which involve active audience participation, such as polling, quizzing, and open-ended question and answer pages.
No account needed for student participation – audience members can simply log on to nearpod.com, or download the app on their phone, and use a 5-digit code generated automatically at the beginning of the presentation to participate.
You can embed video files from your computer, free accounts do limit the amount of online space for your files.
Ocee has purchased the school version of Nearpod and all shows are free!

Guiding Questions about Nearpod:

How do Teachers Log on to Nearpod?  Teachers were send a UN and PW. If you need help, please email or come and see Carolyn.

How do Students Log on to Nearpod?  Students do not need to log on to Nearpod. They go to www.nearpod.com and enter the code you give them to begin.

Is Nearpod Standards Based?  Yes! There now over 5000 Nearpods to choose from and you can also create your own or edit and existing one. You have total control!

Presentation:

Screencast tutorial for Nearpod

Nearpod URL:
www.nearpod.com

Nearpod Blog:
blog.nearpod.com/

Nearpod Help Center
nearpod.zendesk.com/hc/en-us

Evaluation:
Click for survey

Visual Tips about Nearpod in the slide show below!

Extension:
Now that we have been using Office 365 and Sway, many teachers have asked how to integrate the two. Check out the directions below:

Office 365 Connection: Nearpod + Sway:

As an instructional tool, Nearpod offers an interactive and engaging platform for teachers to create personalized lessons and digital stories by seamlessly adding slides, images, videos, audio, and web links. Nearpod presentations offered as digital stories can be further developed by adding immersive virtual reality experiences, interactive “Draw It” activities, and collaborative response features, such as polls and open-ended questions. Now, teachers can enhance presentations and digital stories even more with the new integration of Microsoft Sway. Sway offers fully customizable canvases for creation of multimedia digital stories. By leveraging the power of combining these two digital storytelling tools in instructional practice and in learning, teachers have limitless opportunities for creating developed narratives and meaningful digital artifacts.

Embedding Sways into Nearpod presentations is as simple as 1, 2, 3:
Step 1: While creating a Nearpod lesson, simply select Add Slide, Add Content, and then you will see the Add Sway option.
Step 2: From here, you will be able to embed a Sway digital story. Nearpod offers a curated collection of beautiful Nearpod-created presentations of stories of our world. Topics include Animals, Countries and Continents, Famous Landmarks, Historical Events, and Figures, and Seasons and Extreme Weather.

Video on importing a Sway:
youtu.be/B-VMxwRdvjU