Nearpod

 Nearpod

 Basic Information

Nearpod offers teachers an easy-to-use tool for creating interactive lesson plans, presentations, assessments, and digital content.

Primary Use:

• [General] Present information with different types of content (text, photos, multi-media) in a flexible layout to share online
• [Faculty] Reports, Presentations, Lessons, Quizzes, Polls
• [Students] Presentations, Lessons

Key Features:

• Create Interactive lessons by adding virtual field trips and 3D Objects
• Import Existing Lessons (pdfs, jpegs, ppts)
• Customized ready-to-teach lessons
• Share a live session to all devices
• Evaluate student responses live or with post-session reports
• With Interactive cardboard where students can draw, highlight, type, and pictures
• Automate lesson grading

 
What is Nearpod Video? 

Category: Presentation Tool

Keywords: Presentation, Lessons, 3D

 Detailed Information

Full Description:

Nearpod is an interactive presentation and assessment tool that can be used to amazing effect in the classroom. The app’s concept is simple. A teacher can create presentations that can contain Quiz’s, Polls, Videos, Images, Drawing Boards, Web Content and so on. The children can access a teacher’s presentation through a code. It is up to the teacher to then move the class through the presentation and let them interact with the media as they go. The app is ‘web based’ and is accessible on a ‘log in’ basis. This means that you can access your Nearpod account through any device that connects to the internet. The nice thing about this is that you can run and, more importantly, create your presentations on a computer. In this case, the iPad is just the tool to deliver your Nearpod creations with. Ultimately, the real beauty of this app is that it enables you to connect with your students (digitally that is). This connection and the flexible nature of Nearpod means that it can be used in many different creative and innovative ways.

Tool Access

To access the tool online or for a related download link (if available) please see sources below:

• Free account or paid subscription from their website
• Sign in to Microsoft App Store

Advantage/ Disadvantage:

You can use Nearpod as a substitute for other presentation tools. Instead of running a PowerPoint or Keynote you could utilize this app instead. The presentations will be beamed to each iPad in the classroom. This instantly makes it a far more superior presentation tool. You do not have to rely on pupils being able to see the board. The children can even use pinch gestures to zoom into key areas of their screen whilst a presentation is being displayed on their iPad. You can even ‘drag and drop’ PowerPoint slides into the app for it to instantly create a Nearpod presentation.

Good for Teaching:

The app can become even more useful if you insert a ‘Quiz’ into your Nearpod presentation. As a teacher, you can create customized quizzes that can be used as assessment tools. The children are instructed to type in their name’s before engaging with a quiz. The teacher’s iPad is then faced with the ongoing progress of the class in an easy to analyses’ table. This assessment data can be read on the fly, whilst the children are engaged in the test. In other words, you can gain a good idea of the classes overall understanding within any given subject straight away.

Good for Learning:

With Nearpod, students can have the ability to participate in lessons that contain virtual reality, 3D objects, PhET simulations and so much more. Interactive software features empower student voice through activities like open ended questions, polls, quizzes, collaborative boards and more! Students will learn while having fun. Using the app to distribute resources is another simple way of using it in the classroom. You could fill your presentation with images or worksheets and ask the children to save the resources by taking screen shots. This will automatically save the shots to the iPad’s camera roll. The children can then use the images within other apps or simply keep them at hand as teaching and learning references. It’s just a simple way of connecting to your class’ iPads.

  Reviews [For Future Use]

Public and Internal reviews on the quality of the tool and ease of use to learn/ implement.

 Learning Expectation [For Future Use]

General guidelines of how long it typically takes to learn and be comfortable (basic, advanced, expert levels) with the tool as well as what capabilities users have at each level.

• Level of difficulty to learn/ use for each level:
  • Basic  Use/ substitution: 2-4 hours of use
    • General familiarity with the tool
    • Ability to import documents in from MS Word or Powerpoint
    • Ability to create a simple document and share
  • Advanced Use/ augmentation: 20- 30 hours of use
    • General comfort with the tool
    • Ability to make a presentation from scratch including text, graphics, video, and with basic thoughts on style.
  • Expert use/ transformative (modification / redefinition): 40+ hours of use
    • Complete comfort with the tool
    • Ability to offer advice and guidance to others on the tool
    • Ability to use the tool for various design purposes: presentation, booklet, ePortofolio…
    • Understanding of layout, style (font, colors, themes) to meet end users needs

 Examples

Additional Examples:

• Back to School Examples
• Social Studies Lessons
• See Lessons for more education examples

 Tutorial Guides

 Templates

If you are interested in starting with a template, which often have background, color theme, and fonts, it may save time and highlight new design elements.

• Designed Thinking Module
• Staff Generated Templates

 Lesson

 Crowdsource  [For Future Use]

To learn from other faculty or to share your thoughts or resources (e.g. templates) please see below:

• Comments (either blog style or discussion based)
• Upload their examples/ samples (ability to post information in form)
  • Form components: (For future form)
    • Name
• • • Submission type ( Examples, Guides, Lessons, Templates, Reference Link)
• • • Title
• • • Purposes/ Uses
• • • Description (optional)
  • • Attachment – Upload or Link
  • Date and Time Uploaded
  • Contact Information (hidden)
  • Download Stats
  • Rating Stats

 Reference

The key resources used to make this resource page. Most all information is public except for specific TCS generated resources. For more examples and resources (e.g. guides, templates, etc) see below:

• Common Sense Media
• Google Play
• Educational App Store