 Hello, this is Thor Gunnels. Today we'll be exploring Nearpod. It's a web platform that can be used to adapt and enhance your existing lessons, making them more engaging, effective, and enjoyable for you and your students, either in synchronous or asynchronous environments. Before we get started, don't forget to subscribe and hit that bell to enable notifications for our channel or by clicking on our logo during the video. Also, leave us a comment or check out our related videos by clicking on the pop-up cards in the upper right corner. Here's how to get started with Nearpod so you can go far and beyond with this powerful tool. This video presupposes you already have a Nearpod account and can basically navigate around the platform comfortably. If you're a complete newbie, please check out the Nearpod beginner videos located on the DeerDIS YouTube video channel. When you initially come into Nearpod, you have a few options. Either you can log in with a lesson in mind or you can let the ideas that you find here enhance what you already planned to do already. I'm going to show you a few lessons that will illustrate the utility and the variety of things you can do with Nearpod to enhance your teaching and make it more engaging. As mentioned before, you can go over to the Nearpod library. You can look at current events. You can search for lessons by subject, by grade, by standards. Ari has something in mind. I basically want to do a background and enhancement to my King Lear unit on Shakespeare. The first thing I'm going to show you is about Shakespeare's theater. The globe. Now, what I've got here is a nice splash page. It's something for the kids to look at when they come in. Next, there's a VR version that I have included in here. There is a field trip that you can do on Nearpod and you can search various places. This just happened to be one that I found. Very nice. It allows the kids to go around. Then I've got a little discussion here. What are some challenges just based upon what you just saw? The audiences and the actors might face when seeing a play at the globe. They can type their responses in here. They can even do the text or pictures. Now, I've got a little YouTube video that I've included. The YouTube video is of King Lear, actually at the globe. Not only does it a good performance, but it also gives you an idea of what it feels like to be sitting in the audience and what it might feel like from different angles. This one ends with a poll. Just ask a simple question. Would you like to see a performance? Would you enjoy seeing one at the globe? Then this can be the start of a discussion in class. Next, I've got King Lear Act 1, Act 2 and Act 3. These are all using resources that we've purchased from teachers, paid teachers. So it just gives you an idea of what you can do to jazz up the even things that you've purchased outside of the school. Again, I've got a nice splash page and something for the kids to look at when they come in. Here's a review of what they're going to do. They're going to take a look at the included PDF of Act 1 notes on review. And then they're going to be instructed to type out short responses at the end. I've embedded the PDF in here so that the kids can go through. They can see it. They can read each one of these. They can take notes on it if they need to in case they weren't paying attention while we were doing the playing class. Then they've got the questions embedded. Here are the questions. Here's where they can type in their response or they can record an audio. What's neat about this is that I've done this on every one. So if on the second one, they feel like they don't feel like they want to type, they can record their audio. Act 2, I've done something a little bit different here. There's the splash page again. Now this one I've included flip grid responses, which allow the kids to use their phones. They can use webcams. There's also the notes again, just like before they can take notes as they come through here or just use them as a review. And when they get into flip grid, things get completely crazy. You can include so many neat things in here. You can just record the response based upon the question that's given. You can use an immersive reader to help you read things inside the text. You can even embed videos in here so that the kids can get in here and then play a video of this as a review of a summary of Act 2, Scene 1, in case they just didn't understand it. Next one I did something similar. This one is talking about Edgar's decision to play a completely different character called Thomas Bedlam. If you click on this video, it shows you 16 different versions of Thomas Bedlam. Very cool. Then they can record their response based upon that question. And this goes on and on just like that. Finally, I've got this version which is using the exact same materials but in a different way. Now this one what I did was I'm using it as an embedded presentation. So I took the PowerPoint. I used a near pod in the extension with Google Slides and I uploaded it. So now it runs like a slideshow. Now the same thing with this one. The kids can take their notes. They can just review. And then when they get to the end, which I'll fast forward here to, again, we have open-ended responses. You can type the response in. You can record an audio. You can do a number of things with this. This is barely scratching the surface of what near pod will do. This just gives you a taste of what you can do with three different versions of the same resource from outside and one that I've created myself. If you have any questions or you would like any further suggestions, please reach out to me. I'm listed as Eric Govals at the district or you can reach out to case sellers as well. I hope you've enjoyed this presentation and you learned something today. And you can go far and beyond, above and away with near pod. Thanks so much for watching. Be sure to like, comment, or reply to one of our other videos or share the playlist below. Subscribe to our channel and enable notifications that you don't miss out on the next episode. Don't forget to check out our other resources like this cast podcast and see what else is going on at Orick County Schools. Be sure to follow us at Dear Dis is on social media or contact us via email or our blog.