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Welcome to Chrome Apps, Extensions and Add-ons bootcamp! In this crazy cool PD we will be digging into the wonderful world of the Chrome Web Store and all of its awesomeness. I have complied a fairly extensive list of Apps and Extensions that I want to show you and have you play with in today's session. Today we will be looking at many different resources that will hopefully make your classroom lives easier. The break down for today is as follows: - What is the difference between an App, Extension, and Add-on?
- Where do you find these things at?
- How do you navigate the Chrome Web Store?
- How do you add an app and where does it go?
- How do you add extensions and then use them?
- Where do you manage all of these features at?
Let's get started by reviewing what the difference is between an App, extension, and Add-on!
List of Chrome Apps: Name of App | Price | Description | Age Level | Pic Monkey | Free | This is an online photo shop like tool. | Everyone | Desmos Graphing Calculator | Free | This is a great graphing calculator for upper level math classes | High School Math | Exit Ticket | Free | Create Exit Tickets to send to your class | Everyone | 3D Function Plotter | Free | Online Application for plotting real functions and integral and derivates calculations | High School Math | Alternative Geography | Free | Loads of information on all things Geography.
| Geography/Social Studies | WeVideo | Free | Video Editor and Creator App! | All | Loupe Collage | Free | Create Photo Collages with this app | All | Presentation Remote | Free | Control your powerpoints from your phone! | All | MindMup | Free | Create Mind Maps and creative outlines with this app!
| All | Tiki Toki | Free | Create interactive timelines | All | BioDigital Human | Free | Awesome interactive breakdown of the human body. Great for physiology classes and health! | High School | Kaizena | Free | Put in voice comments into Google Docs, great for special ed students! | All | Online Audio Cutter | Free | Edit and clip audio files | All | TLDR | Free | Summarizes Articles on the web for readers | All | | | | |
List of Chrome Extensions: Name of Extension | Price | Description | Age Level | shorten me | Free | Shortens URLs and can turn them into QR Codes | All | Adblock Plus | Free | Blocks ads on webpages, fantastic resource | All | Save as PDF | Free | Saves full webpages as PDF Files, great for students without internet at home!! | All | Chrome Remote Desktop | Free | Allows you to acces other computers or allow other people to access you computer. | All | Eye Dropper | Free | Pick colors from web pages in order to get that perfect color you need! | All | Select and Speak | Free | Lets you select text from almost any website and make it talk | All | Word Cloud Website Preview | Free | Summarize and share the content of websites or articles into word clouds | Upper El Ed-HS | WolframAlpha | Free | Large information database this extension allows you to search right from your browser | JH & HS | Webpage Screenshot | Free | Take all or part of a website and save it to your drive! | All | ScreenCastify | Free | Allow users to record was is on their screens and post to YouTube | All | BarDeCo | Free | QR Code reader and Encoder extension! | All | Read & Write for Google | Free | An abosloutley awesome extension that creates a new toolbar in your Google Docs with lot of options! | All | Clearly | Free | Cleans up webpages by removing ads and sidebar distractions | All | PicMonkey | Free | Grabs images and puts them right into PicMonkey for Editing | All | Pocket | Free | Saves articles to a folder for you to view later | All | Announcify | Free | Reads the website to the viewer | All | Select and Speak | Free | Allows the user to highlight text and have it read to them | All | TLDR | Free | Summarizes Articles on the web for readers | All | | | | |
List of Google Drive Add-Ons:Name of Add-on | Category | Description | Discoverer | Charts | Docs | Insert charts from Sheets data right into a document | Ben | EasyBib | Docs | An automatic bibliography and citation generator in Google Docs | Ben | Kaizena | Docs | Allows for verbal feedback on documents that students have created | Ben | MindMeister | Docs | Turn bulletted lists into a mind map | Ben | Table of Contents | Docs | Generates a table of contents in the side bar of your document for navigation | Ben | Texthelp Study Skills | Docs | Allows for document high lighting and then groups the highlights together into the document | Ben | Thesaurus | Docs | An imbedded thesaurus in the Google Doc | Ben | Track Changes | Docs | Allows for the owner of the document to accept edits that they approve and deny edits they do not | Ben | Flubaroo | Sheets | Grade your form responses in Sheets. | Adam S. | g(math) | sheets | Allows the user to create math expresions and graphs in sheets | Ben |
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