Peardeck is a platform forinclude a significant amount of interactivity in your conferences and presentations. An amazing tool to engage your students when you do a slide-backed course.
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Insert interactivity in your slides
Forget endless slideshows and groups that doze off in front of your presentations. Peardeck will allow you to insert in your slides a whole series of actions that will require the attention of your listeners and ask them to interact on their computer, tablet or smartphone.
Peardeck offers the opportunity to punctuate your presentation with, among other things, questions that your students will be asked to answer. This will allow you to collect the responses of each participant as well as the general opinion. Ideal to ensure that a point in the course has been understood, or to capture the attention of your audience.
6 ways to interact for your students
Peardeck is a very powerful tool that does much better than offering simple surveys on the fly. First of all, the tool allows you to stream your slides live on your students’ computers. This allows them to follow what you are projecting to the whole group on the screen.
On the teacher’s side, you can insert several types of interactions into your slides. Simple quiz where you have to choose the right answer, but also open-ended question where everyone is invited to answer freely. The tool also offers more original functions such as a module where participants are invited to install a marker on a geographical map, make a freehand drawing or visit a website.
The teacher or presenter has the choice of projecting the overall results on the general screen or keeping them for him/her on his/her personal screen.
A relatively simple set-up
There are no real problems with setting up and using it. Once registered on the PearDeck site you have access to a library where you will be able to create, import, store your presentations. The tool knows how to work directly from Google Slides and PowerPoint among others. PearDeck also offers templates created by other teachers that you will be able to customize.
You have to create your points of interactivity in your presentation, which is of course the longest. Once ready to present your slides in front of the class, Peardeck will provide you with a code that learners will be asked to return to their computer or tablet to join the presentation.
Your efforts to take control of Peardeck will be rewarded with more lively and effective courses and presentations.
Peardeck is offered only in English and this is arguably its main flaw. Let’s hope that the PearDeck team quickly offers an interface in French to make it easier to use and use.
Peardeck offers a somewhat limited free version to test the tool. Allow around EUR 10 per month for full and unlimited use of all its functions.
Link: Peardeck
English
There is a French term that tends to be forgotten, pity. You can say slide instead of slide. It would be nice to think about it. Thank you for everything else.