Explore Nearpod's award-winning K-12 interactive lessons, videos, and formative assessments. Built for distance learning, hybrid, and school-based settings. You don’t have to start from scratch. Upload and make any of your favorite PowerPoints, Google Slides, and now, any video interactive. You can even upload videos directly from YouTube. Or, search our standards-aligned library of 8,500+ interactive lessons and videos across all grades and subjects. Boost student participation with collaborative activities and formative assessments like Virtual Reality, Polls, Collaborate Boards, and game-based quizzes. Get student insights in real-time and in post-session reports.
Type of Material:
Social Networking Tool
Recommended Uses:
in-class, homework, online, hybrid, self-paced
Technical Requirements:
Browser based; intergates with Google.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
Nearpod allows instructors to create engaging, interactive lessons that can incorporate assessment to help the teacher meet individual student needs.
Target Student Population:
Grade School, Middle School, High School, Pre-K (They are trying to incorporate higher ed lessons)
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Basic computing skills and knowlege of sharing video or using slide presentations is helpful.
Content Quality
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Strengths:
Many templates are available for use with multiple grade and subject areas or users can create their own interactive lessons.
Nearpod provides the user with the opportunity to make any lesson interactive through the use of formative assessments. Teachers can use a resource they already have such as a slide presentation or video, or they can use a standards aligned, pre-made lesson from the robust Nearpod library.
Concerns:
Nearpod is VERY high quality.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
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Strengths:
Formative assessment has been shown to be valuable as a way to checking for understanding. Using Nearpod for formative assessment, or using their other activities such as matching, draw it, drag and drop, or time to climb (multiple, multiple choice on a topic) is an effective way to keep students engaged while having the ability to guide instruction.
Although there are many other ways to use formative assessment, and most do not involve technology, this method is efficient for teachers because they may already have the slide presentations or videos and can just incorporate questions or activities.
Teachers can use the detailed reports of student engagement and activity and get real time insights into what their students know by accessing the reports after the lesson.
Concerns:
Nearpod is available for free but subscriptions are needed for premium content.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
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Strengths:
Nearpod is quite easy to use, however, teachers can get support through, Live Webinars Getting started videos & tutorials, Teacher & admin resources, Blog, and Communities.
Navigation is on a menu on the left clealy labeled with My Lessons, Reports, Nearpod Library and Teacher Resources.
The top navigation is simple with either Create (Lesson, Video, Activity, or Google Slides. And the Quick Launch which is where the teacher can launch an activity without by quickly creating an activity such as an Open Ended Question or Draw It and immediately share students. Quick Launch also includes a timer and a collaboration board.
Nearpod is easy to use with how-to materials available. It also interacts with a variety of learning management systems and offers accessibility options.
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