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Google Chrome: Apps and Extensions for Education

Google Chrome: Apps and Extensions for Education. Presentation by Tiffany Arends. Why Chrome?. All preferences saved and synced Apps Extensions Bookmarks Design Each user can manage their own. Omnibar allows URL or search. Extensions. Bookmarks bar. Customize and control.

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Google Chrome: Apps and Extensions for Education

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  1. Google Chrome:Apps and Extensions for Education Presentation by Tiffany Arends

  2. Why Chrome? • All preferences saved and synced • Apps • Extensions • Bookmarks • Design • Each user can manage their own

  3. Omnibar allows URL or search Extensions Bookmarks bar Customize and control

  4. Apps and Extensions • Web apps: websites accessible from your browser. Do not require downloads • Extensions: affects browser globally. An example: ability to perform text to speech functions

  5. Click ‘New Tab’ to view apps Apps Apps

  6. Chrome Toolbar • Manage your bookmarks • Open ‘Incognito’ window’ • ‘Tools’: manage your extensions • Chrome settings

  7. Chrome Web Store • Click link at bottom right • Search ‘Apps’ or ‘Extensions’

  8. Apps • Speech Recognizer: speech to text, also offline access • VoiceNote: speech to text in word proc • Magic Scroll: use to read ePub files on desktop or laptop, no internet needed • Remote Desktop App: allows your computer to be accessed by another with app-generated code from you • Study Stack: generate flashcards or choose from those already created

  9. Apps (cont’d) • Blackboard: use your monitor as you would an actual blackboard • Periodic Table of the Elements: Handy reference guide for students • VoiceThread: Recorded cloud conversations include voice, text and video. • Planetarium: Check out the night sky in any location in the world • Typing Test – Key Hero: online typing tests and skill builder

  10. Extensions • Evernote Web Clipper: allows you to take a screenshot – all or portion - and add it to your Evernote files • Evernote Clearly: removes sidebars and other data from a webpage. Allows you to highlight, add text, print, and add to your Evernote docs • EasyBib: evaluate websites for credibility, add citations to EasyBib acct. To use: type ‘easybib’ then TAB, then search • Select and Speak: Highlight text, click icon and listen

  11. Extensions (cont’d) • Announcify: text to speech. Click on icon, page is read to you. Removes sidebars and enlarges text • Dualless: allows you to split your screen. Students can see two websites at once, or a doc and a website, etc. • Google Dictionary: select text on any webpage, click to get definition. • ImTranslate-Google Translator: select text on page, choose language and receive text and speech translation.

  12. Extensions (cont’d) • Awesome Screenshot: screen capture, annotate, save • A Cleaner Internet: Allows your students to view YouTube videos without all the side content, comments, etc. Not available in Chrome store, do search. • Oweb Voice Input: allows voice input on any web pages with textbox

  13. Bookmarklet • Printliminator: works in Chrome, Safari and Firefox. Select only the elements on the webpage you wish to print.

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