Tech.Tuesday- Oct. 16

Last week, I stumbled across a tool that has the potential to be quite exciting. It is called Nearpod.  In a nutshell, Nearpod is a slide-based presentation and interaction tool that allows teachers to control content across their students' iPads (or other devices) from their own iPad.   Technology Director, Frederico Padovan from Immaculata-LaSalle High School in Miami, describes Nearpod as, "Powerpoint on steroids."  However, slide-sharing is only a small part of what this App can do.  It will also allow teachers to to add interactive elements such as polls, surveys, questions, interactive drawing spaces, assessments, etc.  Moreover, teachers will get live data from student input as soon as it is submitted.  Beginner teachers simply use an existing powerpoint presentation, JPEG image or PDF from their lessons, pop it into Nearpod, and away they go.

Here is a diagram from their website describing how it is done:

  Check out this video for more information:



If you would like to see this in person and tinker with it yourself, I am working on a demo that I will roll out soon.  Stay tuned!