NEARPOD Learning App

 Nearpod

A platform called Nearpod is used to create and distribute interactive presentations, formative or summative tests, and information on social emotional learning, online behavior, vocabulary, and other topics. Teachers can develop their own multimedia presentations on the website or choose from a huge selection of standards-aligned resources that are available for free and at a cost. Teachers can integrate multiple-choice tests and polls in addition to uploading videos, photos, audio clips, and files. Presentations can be made more interesting by using drawing tools, collaboration boards, and open-ended questions. Using the website or the app, teachers can start presentations, check on their students' progress, and decide whether or not to display student names. 

Presentations are accessible to students using a code. In order to encourage student ownership of their learning rather than having them merely see a teacher-directed, whole-class presentation, teachers can interact with students in real time, either in person or digitally, and can see students' replies. Additionally, teachers can choose the pace for class time or assign homework that allows students to complete classes at their own pace. In either case, it's simple to determine who is watching the presentation, which aids in classroom management and promotes proper technology usage.

By allowing students to draw on a map or diagram, answer a poll question, post a message or image to a collaboration board, take a multiple-choice test, or take part in a gamified Time to Climb challenge, Nearpod may help add a layer of interactivity and feedback to slideshow-style teaching. Students can go on a virtual field trip to a national park or another country with Nearpod's VR classes. Flocabulary films and activities can be used into your presentations to aid students in reviewing important vocabulary or learning ideas. Alternatively, you can encourage social and emotional learning (SEL) and digital citizenship abilities by using pre-made lessons on social justice, cyberbullying, empathy, and internet safety.