Nearpod

Nearpod is an instructional platform that merges formative assessment and dynamic media for collaborative learning. It is more than just a presentation tool. When using Nearpod students get to interact with their learning and the teachers can assess student learning as it occurs.

Reasons to use Nearpod

• Positive impact on school culture
• Improves focus and reading comprehension skills
• Promotes being a good digital citizen
• 100% student participation
• Promotes 21st century skills such as collaboration, creativity, and communication
• Bridges the gap between curriculum and technology

Nearpod has a lesson library that has pre-prepared lessons that align with a variety of standards, subjects, and grade levels. Depending on the membership you or your school has some lessons are free, others you might have to pay for, but most of them do not cost more than five dollars.


Nearpod and Flocabulary
Nearpod worked in partnership with Flocabulary to create hip hip videos about vocabulary to better the level of engagement and comprehension. There are well over one hundred pre-made lessons that incorporate these Flocabulary videos.

Get connected
You can use your Google account to create slides and embed Nearpod activities directly into your slide presentations. By using this dynamic form of media you are ensuring that your students are engaged and participating in the lessons and activities. When using your Google account you can sync all presentations to Google classroom and will have the ability to assess the student growth with reports available in teh Nearpod portal.


Gaming and activities through Nearpod

Time to climb is a fun competition game that encourages positive student to students interactions and promotes a genuine social learning experience.





Using Virtual reality to go on a virtual field trip is easy with Nearpod. They offer so many different trips that many students would never have the opportunity to see without VR. Nearpod has over four hundred and fifty lessons ready to broaden the students' knowledge of the world we live in. The VR lessons are compatible with iPads, Chromebooks, Macs, and PCs. A VR headset is not required to achieve the goal of the lesson, but could enhance the experience.

Using Nearpod for assessments

Nearpod has several different tools that can be embedded into the presentations to work as assessments.