Pear Deck offers add-ons to Google Slides to create interactive presentations that are perfect for student assessment. I recently had an opportunity to familiarize myself with the tools and resources available through the app and I created a formative assessment for students to complete online. The details of the lesson and the corresponding assessment are listed below including my introduction of the app to students and when the assessment will be given. A link to the assessment is also available at the bottom of this post. I really enjoyed the ease of use the app offers and I’m excited to share my findings! I am currently designing a lesson for students to create an infographic and PSA style video addressing a current event related to a social issue of their choice. The first portion of the lesson involves designing an infographic using the elements and principles of design. I want to assess their ability to identify, describe and apply organizational principles and other visual characteristics in their work, and to provide a rationale for their design choices. Students will sign up for Pear Deck through their google accounts on their Chromebooks. They will enter a code to join the interactive presentation and will be able to answer questions and provide layout and design drawings related to their infographic identifying elements and principles of design. Directions for each slide are provided in the presentation and students will be given an introduction and demonstration of filling out their questions and providing written responses. Student will also need to use drawing tools to create their layout ideas. Pear Deck provides a dashboard for students to access drawing tools including pencils, highlighters and line drawing tools with a sliding bar to adjust line thickness. It also has an option to insert text with adjustable font size and an eraser tool. Students will be introduced to the drawing tools through a demonstration projected on a screen or smartboard. I will briefly provide examples and modeling for each slide of the assessment and students will be able to work at their own pace using the Pear Deck student paced function which allows them to navigate through each slide at their own pace. This formative assessment will be completed by each student after they collect facts and articles related to the topic they will be addressing, and after they have been introduced to the elements and principles of design. The assessment will gauge their ability to move on to the final step of creating their infographic based on what they have learned. The assessment for this lesson can be found HERE. I hope this introduction to formative assessment using Pear Deck helps you to streamline your own assessment practices in the future!
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PBS LearningMedia website provides resources for both students and teachers to enhance learning and provides access to lessons and informative media that is appropriately categorized for both grade level and content area. The website is easy to navigate, and it's provided through PBS so it is ad free. Each lesson and link includes a thumbnail for visual identification and the site is simply designed but visually appealing with a color scheme that is easy to view. Font size is large and easily readable. Each lesson also includes a list of accessibility including visual,auditory, etc. Drop-down menus allow you to access information by subject, grade and standards. There is also a search bar available to enter in search requests. Most lessons include an introductory video connected to the lesson for greater accessibility, though surprisingly they do not seem to include closed captions. Supportive materials are also included for teachers as well as worksheets and other activity sheets for students. The standards connected to each lesson are outlined on a separate tab as well.
This resource is free for teachers and includes tools for creating lessons and assessments. Links are available to share through social media, class assignment through PBS's integrated classroom management tool or quick assign codes for students to access as well as Google Classroom and Remind. Looking through some of the lessons available for the art classroom, resources including lessons seem to be designed age appropriately with vocabulary that may be challenging, but accessible for most students. The resources are reasonably accessible with video and images to aid in navigation. The information is engaging and should be enjoyable for students. Additional language support could be useful for ELLs and closed captioning on the videos provided would give greater access both to ELLs as well for students who are deaf or hard of hearing. Check out these other reviews for PBS LearningMedia from other education sites: We are Teachers Common Sense Education Argument Centered Education |
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