Web Tools/Apps Review

Nearpod: 15 points

        Nearpod is a fabulous multi-platform website/app which enables instructors to engage students with interactive multimedia presentation and instructions, tests and surveys, responses and feedbacks, evaluations and assessments all in an real-time manner, offering more personalized guidance and interaction with students regardless their locations as long as they are connected to the internet.





        Instructors will be able to create or download interactive multimedia presentations that can be shared with students across their devices then track control their activities in real-time. Students will be able to use smart phones, tablet computers or any mobile device and PC/MAC to assess to the learning materials, interact and submit responses so the instructors can monitor and measure student results on an individual and aggregate basis.

http://www.nearpod.com/rocking-web/

http://www.slideshare.net/Yfandes/using-nearpod-to-create-interactive-lesson-plans

https://www.haikudeck.com/nearpod-in-the-classroom-an-educators-to-education-presentation-neBAJvG2L3

        Nearpod can be also used for distance learning, since students can join instructors’ Nearpod session from anywhere.  Nearpod is new on the list and ranked #56 in Jane Hart's "Top 100 Tools for Learning 2014" released on September 22, 2014.