Chrome Apps, Extensions and Add-ons

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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

Resource Submission

Morrison Resource Database

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