Textbooks to Chromebooks 11- PearDeck

Pear Deck is an app offered by peardeck.com.  Pear Deck is a valuable interactive formative assessment tool.   By using Pear Deck, I can see all students' responses at once.  Knowing which students are grasping the material being taught and which students need extra help is powerful.  It is important that students do not continue to practice concepts incorrectly, and Pear Deck allows me to see this question by question.  So how does Pear Deck work?

1)  Add the Pear Deck app from the Chrome Web Store

2)  When you open Pear Deck, you will see a button in the upper right-hand corner called "Create a New Deck.

3)  You will then be presented with two choices:  Add a new slide to create from scratch or import a Google Powerpoint, Google Presentation, PDF, or another Pear Deck

4)  By clicking on add a new slide, you will then get a screen where you will enter the title for the slide and then you may add an image, text box, a list, or a YouTube video.

5) When adding a slide on the right panel, you will see the word Normal under the slide.  You will see a drop down menu.  If you click on this, you can change the type of slide you're creating.  These are your choices:
                              A.  Draggable Slide
                              B.  Freehand Drawing
                              C.  Multiple Choice Slide
                              D.  Free Response:  Text
                              E.  Free Response:  Number

6)  Once you have finished entering the questions you want for your formative assessment, you can then click on Start Presenting.

7)  The students will see a code to join, and they will enter this code by going to peardeck.com/join

8)  During the presentation, as the teacher you will be given various choices along the bottom of your screen:  Show student responses(on the projector students will only see responses, not student names),  lock responses (after a certain period of time you may lock the responses so students cannot make changes after seeing the responses projected),  ask question again (after reviewing the question you could have the students respond again),  or ask  a quick question (perhaps as you were presenting a new idea came up.  You may ask a question on the spot for the students to answer).

9)  After the presentation, you will be given the opportunity to save your results so you can keep track of how the students did on this specific assessment.


10)  Also, there are three add-ons for Pear Deck that you may find helpful
A)  Google Classroom: if activated you will be able to invite Classroom classes to Pear                       Deck sessions, fast and easy
 B) Classroom Climate: if activated you can invite students to think and reflect on the                         learning process.  You can get a sense of how mood is affecting the lesson
 C) Takeaways:  if activated you can publish a Takeaway Google Doc for each student                          that contains every Pear Deck slide and the student's response.  These will be created in                        your Drive and automatically shared with the student.