Nearpod💬

Hi! Welcome back to my blog. In this chance, I would like to share about mobile learning activity named Nearpod. This is a very interesting topic and my team and I learned many things from this. First, I will tell you about my reflection on doing this project. 

My team consist of 3 people including me. We discussed about our materials, slides, and our target. We are really exciting because it's just like we made an exercise for our students plus we have to present it just as we are teaching in a class. We were nervous that we might not be able to do the presentation well. But, my lecturer and other friends helped us so, we made it. Using Nearpod is very easy and simple. We can also use many features which help us to do the teaching well. 

Ours is about "Passive and Active Voice" and our target is for the junior high school students around 7th-8th grade. Because after the elementary school they got the basic, they will learn into the next level such as active passive voice. This is also the key of their success in order to learn English well. 

From the explanation above, I will provide the steps about how to make Nearpod just as my friends and I did.

1. Type "nearpod.com" into your search bar and after the page loaded, click whether create account (for the first users) or sign in (for those who already have account).

2. After you in the Nearpod, click "create" to create new lesson or slide.

3. Next step is to titled your lesson about what is the materials etc. Finish give your lesson title, let's begin to make the slides by clicking on "Add Slide".

4. The display must be like this after you click "Add Slide" and you may choose whether what you want to add. There are varieties of options you can use here. But, I will use the option "Slide" for this time.

5. We are on the progress of making the slide. Let's choose what media do you want to use. Not for you, if you want to use video from YouTube, you have to download the video first then you can upload it to your slide because we cannot just use the link here. Don't forget to click on the "Save" button before you make the next slide.

6. After you finish make your first slide, you may choose "Add Slide" again to make the exercise for the students. Click on the "Add Activity" and you may see many of options you can use. For now, I will use "Quiz".

 7. Done clicking on the "Quiz" you will see this and you may create your question. You can add up to eight answers for each number and you can add questions too as you need. Don't forget to click on the right answer.

8. The last step after you create all of the slides, is to save your work. Click on the "Save and Exit" button down bellow as the last touch on your Nearpod. At last, you have your own Nearpod now.  

Those are the steps about how to create Nearpod. Simple, right? Go create your own now!

Oops, I nearly forgot about the advantages and disadvantages of Nearpod. From my opinion, the advantages as I mentioned before is very easy to use and effective for learners nowadays. Nearpod is colorful so they don't have to read many texts on their thick books anymore. The disadvantages is we have to have a fast internet connection unless we cannot use Nearpod to learn.

This is the link of my Nearpod which I made with my friends and I hope this can be useful for my readers. Lastly, Thank You!
https://share.nearpod.com/vsph/1jmGUMCWCI