FTT - PearPop!

Watch Student Engagement Happen In An Instant With PearPop!

@LisaBerghoff/@MrKimDHS

It is so exciting to see the many uses of PearDeck in our classrooms.  Thanks to a generous grant from the District 113 Education Foundation, we now have a district-wide premium license for PearDeck. Watching teachers learn about PearDeck and then report back on the success of those lessons has been so thrilling.  If you haven't given it a try yet, I highly encourage you to check it out. 

Just a few days ago, PearDeck announced a new tool called Pear Pop.  I had to give it a try! Here is how it works. If you don't want or feel the need for a whole Google Slides presentation, you can just use Pear Pop to ask an interactive question. This is also a great tool to get some formative information on the fly.

It is designed to be quick and easy. 

Just go to Peardeck.com and where it says Pear Pop just click Choose A Prompt.

When you do that you will see several pre-made question slides.

All you need to do is click on one to choose it. When you do that, it automatically goes into presentation mode. You will see the join code on the screen and once your students enter that code at joinpd.com, they will be able to respond to the question. If you don't love using the code, you can use the link. Once your students are there, you will see the dashboard and all of the fantastic features that we love about PearDeck for Google Slides. You can ask another question on the fly, give the students a time limit, lock their screens, show responses or make it student-paced. 

This basically allows you to use some interactivity without needing to create an entire presentation because sometimes you just want to toss a question to your class and using PearPop is a great way to make sure everyone is actually participating instead of you verbally asking a question and hearing from the same four kids who always answer you.

The pre-made templates are divided into categories of "before class" "during class" and "end of class" which makes them perfect to use as bell-ringers, exit tickets, or formative assessments. However, if you don't want to use one of those, you can scroll to the next screen where you will find blank options of each of the possible question types: multiple choice, text, draggable, drawing, and number. 

Go ahead and give PearPop a try and let us know how it goes! Want some help? Feel free to contact one of us, we're happy to help!