-
![Pear Deck wins Rise of the Rest competition at SXSW [Video]](https://siliconprairienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/rise.png)
Pear Deck wins Rise of the Rest competition at SXSW [Video]
Last night Riley Eynon-Lynch, co-founder of Pear Deck, won the Rise of the Rest pitch competition at SXSW. His prize? $150,000 in investment from Steve Case, venture capitalist and founder of America Online. Iowa City-based Pear Deck helps teachers keep students engaged in the classroom by connecting their presentations with student digital devices. It also…
-
Pear Deck’s app helps teachers engage in real time with every student
Pear Deck, an interactive presentation Google app for the classroom, is live worldwide. The tool has been in beta since March, with thousands of users in select school districts across the country. Now the final version is available in the Google Chrome Web Store.
-
ActiveGrade founders create new education startup Pear Deck
With increasingly fast Internet speeds and a growing ability for real-time interactions, innovations in technology are changing the game in traditional education. Now Iowa City, Iowa-based startup Pear Deck is harnessing that technology to help teachers better engage with their students. “What makes it really exciting is that one of the problems for any teacher,…