Pear Deck: Enrich Your Presentations!

 

Hi everyone, I am here to introduce you the Peardeck. Peardeck is a tool that allows us make add-ons to our slides and make our students more active via letting them interact over the slides!






What is Pear Deck?

Pear Deck is an interactive presentation gadget utilized to actively include students in individual and social learning. Teachers create slides using their Google Drive account. Students log into the presentation with their access codes and interact with questions while teachers can monitor student and whole-class progress. For creating interactive learning setting, Pear Deck would be helpful.

Why to use Pear Deck?

Pear Deck allows you enrich your presentations.

It engages students in the learning process by letting them type or draw their answers to the questions.

It also lets you create multiple choice questions and students can drag dots to the right answer.


How does Pear Deck work?

  1. You create a Pear Deck account and your premiım trial for 1 month starts.
  2. You prepare a presentation on Google Slides or PowerPoint Online and via add-ons provided by Pear Deck, you enrich your presentation.
  3. You can add questions and students can answer them typing, drawing or dragging icons.
  4. They can also choose from multiple choices.
  5. Start your live lesson.
  6. Now, you can enjoy your presentation with your students!
You can find my presentation I created with Pear Deck here.

Here are two introductory videos on Pear Deck for starters:






















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