 Hi, this is Marcy Turner and today I'm going to show you how to access Nearpod connected to your Google account and all the features that Nearpod has to offer. Okay, so to get started with this tutorial you're going to want to head over to nearpod.com. You're going to click the login button. It's going to take you to the sign-in screen. It gives you many options, but if you're an Oregon County school employee you're definitely going to want to click the sign-in with Google. Your first time signing in you're going to need to allow access to your Google Drive and Google account. Once you do that and you allow it you'll go to the main screen which is under my lessons that starts you there. I like to make sure that when I'm logged in I have premium plus here. Our district pays for the premium plus so I think that's awesome. We get unlimited storage so you can store all of your lessons in here if you wanted to. All right, so the first thing I do as a teacher when I'm looking for a lesson or I have an idea I like to head over to the Nearpod library. Once I click on that I can see that they break it down by grades, subjects, content types. There's different publishers that do publish different content on here. They have holiday lessons and fun things. I personally will filter to the certain grade level or subject that I'm teaching so that I'm just seeing content that's geared towards that specific subject. You can also filter by standards which I think is a new feature and I do like this idea as well. It gives you if you're teaching to a certain standard and you want to make sure you hit that standard you can filter by standard now which is a nice new feature. Okay, so I'm just going to showcase an example, a Nearpod curated lesson. I teach English so I'm going to go ahead and click on that. I can do let's see grade levels so maybe I just want high school and so this is going to filter the content to what specifically I'm looking for. I could alternatively also type in a certain topic. Maybe I'm teaching a poem or I'm teaching one thing I think I taught on here was Ethos Pathos and Logos so I typed in, well I typed in Ethos Pathos and Logos and then they had some content. They have a video, they have lessons that are made so I'm going to show the art of persuasion here. This one was created by the Nearpod team so I can hit preview and once I hit preview that allows me to see the standard that it's achieving how many and then plus 71 so all the standards it's achieving. You can teach it straight from this but I like to make sure that when I look at this I want to make sure it has all the things that I am interested and need for my lesson so if this is something that looks good to me and you can see they have interactive they have like their essential question which is very helpful and then it tells the students what they're learning about today and it even gives you time frames which again I love this. This is awesome so if I want to add this to my lessons that makes a copy of it in my lesson library and then I can from there also edit it edit lesson and then I can even take out slides that I don't maybe necessarily like I can edit the lesson myself. You might want to do that because I find that this one specifically is quite long and lengthy it does have collaboration it does quiz them and asks them to draw so there's a lot of different interactive items that it asks the students to do so I do love that once you're done when you edit it in here you can also add your own slides in so we can add your own content in your own pictures or you can just click and delete so if I didn't want this one I could just delete that slide and then it's my lesson I've made it my own so you can even from this preview it I also like to do that I recommend doing that because it might look at one way on the screen when you're editing it but you want to make sure like this is what the students will see on their screens so when you are teaching your pod you're going to activate a lesson and we'll get into that in a minute you're going to give a kid the kids a code or paste a code somewhere on your on your school g account so I go through and I make sure everything looks good that the content is clickable that the video works that sort of thing because sometimes if you didn't you're not sure exactly what you're getting so anyways that's one thing that you can do again this is the student preview so this is what they see on their screen and they can just type on here and it shows up pending approval that's a setting you can turn on as a teacher I can go to Google as a student and include an image my thinking this is a collaborate board I love this one okay so that's the preview and so I can just save an exit make sure you save an exit otherwise any changes you've made will not save so this is how you edit a lesson take something from your pod one of their lessons make it your own and edit it right in your pod alternatively you may as a teacher already have google slides that you just want to make more interactive and put them on near pod I personally love doing this for the very simple fact is that I can hold students who are absent accountable so I'm going to show you how to do that so if you go over to your drive and then maybe I have a google lesson or maybe I want to create just saying google slides so I can open up a google slide now you're going to want to install the extension for near pod so you'll have to do you know add-ons and get the extension I have this so it opens right up when I click on near pod so once that loads it gives you the same options in near pod I personally do like to create my own lessons in here if I'm starting from scratch I just like the view of google slides better so if I wanted to maybe start off with an open-ended question I could just click on that and it adds in a whole slide so I put my question here okay and then you can also add a timer you can enable if you want to enable student audio recordings you could add an image or audio or something else to catch their attention and then you just click save and then once you do that it will load into and create another full slide and make sure you don't delete this slide but there it is open-ended question now you can't see what the question was that you've typed in there so one thing I will say is like I like to make sure I keep track of my own of what I've done but you could also just click edit this slide to view what you've done with it to see that it's the right thing that you wanted in there okay so in addition to doing like an open-ended question I want to go through some of the options here so you can add an audio videos that you find online talked about collaborate board draw it is just simply asking them to draw they can use their finger on their keypad I find maybe this might match more with math than my content area specifically but I do find this useful as something that maybe a teacher might want to see them apply a skill that's going to take you across that you know rigor divide that we're always trying to get our students to the field trip option is great I think for social studies teachers or someone who teaches geography or that sort it's a VR pre curated field trip that actually near pod made an even cooler you could have them get VR headsets or if your school district had them you could rent them I'm sure you can get them somewhere that's also an experience that's so great if you're familiar with that you can also integrate into near pod matching pairs mainly for vocabulary if you need to do that and then PDF viewer so I use PDF viewer as a teacher of you know reading and writing I can put in a short story you make it a whole slide and they can actually view the entire PDF on one slide when I click to go to that during my lesson and so they can actually read it right on your part they don't believe near pod which I think is awesome because when you get to any tabs opening with kids they get confused and of course polls and quizzes the other thing I do also like is time to climb believe it or not my high school juniors love it they think it's interactive and fun you can put your questions in here and then your answer types there you can do images you can test their knowledge and they do have pre curated times climbs so you can check over here you could you could type on them and see you could click on one of them and see if that matches what you're teaching or make your own add questions okay so I think that is a good overview of what you can do with near pod again you can do all that in the near pod online platform but I personally if I'm creating my own lesson I want to do it on google slides I can also do a better drop of designing the slides and adding in things from canva okay so I'm going to go back to near pod so that's how you make an edit lessons on near pod I do find that I love that it saves here in my library sometimes when I make multiple copies I'll just simply delete it as you can see I have a couple here I just want to showcase one thing that I did do so I had one lesson that I made on a short story that we were reading but this was something the district made google slides and then I took those google slides from the from the content curriculum apps and I turned it into a near pod lesson but I wanted to show you you can do live participation so this is you're in the classroom you're in front of your kids you want you want them to be with you and so it creates this code I can copy the link I can post it you even have a co-teacher link if you want your co-teacher in on what you're teaching and then you just go and it changes their screen too so there's no confusion this is the student view by the way but when I click the teacher this is what I'm going to see when I'm up on the board there's a couple of things I do want to point out on when they have a question you may not want names no I don't have any participants right now but you may not want names listed so I can actually click on hide student answers or hide student names and I that way I can still see their answers and they'll show up right here and I can read them right from here but I don't know whose name it is and at least a little bit more anonymous I do like that from this if I'm like okay I'm done it's your turn I can do student paste mode which is more there on their own kind of on their own time and frame how they're doing it if I go back now if you want to return to the same session because you're going to grade their answers you're going to want to hit you can resume it later do you want to leave the session you can yes I want to leave it and then the same session is going to show up in your reports so that's when I go back and I'm grading to see if they've done what I've asked them to do in the slides like for example here at the end of the year I did this one it tells me the time how many students and then I can click on and see what they actually wrote and if I wanted to grade it that way I typically use it as more participation grade but you can see it'll calculate a total grade on what they did on like my time to climb the film the blank score I did a no but into question if you actually want to go back in and read those you do need to click on their name and then you can read what they actually wrote okay so that's an important thing key is the reports is where it's going to house how your students did so I go back to my lessons the one thing I also wanted to showcase was student base so I do always post student paste anyways on my classroom I just copy this link here this one is for my students were absent so I leave that purely for them so that when they come to me and say I was absent yesterday when I miss I'm like there's a near pun thank you so much for watching and don't forget to like and subscribe for more video tutorials