Nearpod

 Nearpod is a tool that is similar to Peardeck. Nearpod aims to make the lessons more engaging and student centered. For this purpose, teachers often create tasks and activities about their lessons. However, Nearpod provides more diverse options to teachers when compared to traditional education. Nearpod makes the presentations more interactive through the use of quizes, open ended questions, polls, interactive videos and many more. Although it is possible to create effective interactive tasks in a classroom environment, giving each student enough and equal time can be hard to manage. However, Nearpod allows students to engage in the lesson simultaneously, which means that each student would have equal opportunities to participate in the activities presented. Additionally, Nearpod makes the lesson more interesting which helps them pay attention to the topic. As students focus on the lesson, Nearpod guarantees a more effective lesson. 

Here is a presentation example prepeared with Nearpod;

Nearpod Material

With the help of Nearpod, I made my presentation more interactive for students by adding a quiz and a matching pairs excersice. As it was previously stated, these are not the only types of activities that can be created through Nearpod.

As an example, here is the match the pairs exercise. During the lesson, students can match the presented words with the suitable pictures. When creating an exercise of this kind, teachers can add more pairs related to their topic.

Another example is a quiz. Teachers can add visuals or audio to the quiz. Additionally, they can set a time limit to prevent the activities from taking too much time.