(updated 8/2022)
(updated 8/2022)
Updated (10/2021)
Mote
Full Screen Interactive Google Slides
Record to Slides
Giphy for Chrome
Google Docs (Slides, Drawings, Sheets) URL Shortcuts
EdPuzzle: Adds an Edpuzzle button next to YouTube™ videos to quickly start editing them in Edpuzzle. Teachers are able to use our screen recording tool to record anything on their screen. Once they finish recording your video, they'll be able to edit it, embed questions, and assign it to students.
Save to Drive - Capture a webpage and save it directly to your Drive account. It is great when you want information handy. You can also keep it and share the site in assignments
Ziteboard - Virtual whiteboard (is a website as well). Can have conferences and invite collaborators (make sure you under stand what is public and private access). Great to create step-by-step presentations and even use with a desktop recorder.
Page Marker - Ever wanted to make notes or draw on any website? Now you can with Page Marker! Page Marker allows you to draw on any website in real time in the comfort of your browser.
Extensions for Struggling Students and Special Needs - This blog (site) has several extensions your students can add to their Chrome browser to help in reading website texts.
Break Timer - Enforce periodic breaks to prevent RSI / eye strain. Break Timer allows you to set up customizable breaks and will remind you to take them. Taking breaks whilst working or studying is crucial in preventing RSI, eye-strain and tiredness.
uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker: easy on memory and CPU footprint, and yet can load and enforce thousands more filters than other popular blockers out there.
Clipular - Capture a region, visible content of a tab, or a horizontally/vertically scrollable page as a searchable image & bookmark it.
Share to Classroom - Allows you to push webpages to any of your classroom classes, so they open instantly on students' computers.
Print Friendly & PDF - Print Friendly and PDF any Webpage. Print Friendly removes ads, navigation and junk before you print.
Lightshot (Screenshot Tool) - Simple and convenient screenshot tool. Select an area, edit your screenshot on the spot and print, upload it to the server or copy and paste instantly
Picture-in-Picture - Picture-in-Picture {PiP} allows you to watch videos in a floating window - always on top of other windows - so you can watch a video while working on other sites or applications.
Bit.ly URL Shortener - Don't want to send out an extremely long URL? This extension can help.
Grammarly - Helps with grammar and spelling errors in your writing
Screencastify - Make videos that are sent directly to your Drive account.
Math Tools - Super calculator with ability to graph, type or handwrite equations. Equation cropping to input equations into docs & forms.
OneTab - Do you have too many tabs? Is your web browser slowing down? Then this extension will help you! OneTab consolidates multiple tabs into one easy-to-look-at list.
Mirrorthevideo.com - Flip YouTube videos horizontally. Just replace "youtube.com" with "mirrorthevideo.com" in the URL. Here's an example.
Ziteboard.com - Virtual online whiteboard with team collaboration .Ziteboard is a lightweight whiteboard website which works on any device: laptops, tablets, mobile devices – optimized for both iPad's Safari and Google Chrome on laptops.
Goformative: A useful formative assessment tool with real-time applications. Create questions (multiple choice, true/false, short answer and drawn “show your work” questions) to deliver to students
Wordle - generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. Have student use this to see how many times they use the same word. Can be a fun activity. NOTE: BEST USED IN the FIREFOX browser. (There is a downloadable desktop, but then you have to update Java)
https://www.powtoon.com/ You or your students can create animated explainer videos up to 3 min long in the free version.
https://flipgrid.com/ a social learning platform that allows educators to ask a question, then the students respond in a video. Students are then able to respond to one another, creating a “web” of discussion.
https://archive.storycorps.org/ (The StoryCorps Archive comprises one of the largest born-digital collections of human voices, featuring more than 200,000 conversations recorded in all 50 states and Puerto Rico, and around the world. The full collection of interviews is housed at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.)
https://deck.toys (Creating lessons on Deck.Toys is fun for you too! Build complete lessons within minutes with your existing teaching content such as study sets, PPT or Google Slides)
Jeopardy Review (Good review source for a test. Free version allows up to three games to be created [you can delete a game to add another or pay for a subscription])
Classroom Screen (A fun, interactive webpage that acts as a boar)
That Math Quiz (A free service for teachers who want to replace paper tests with online testing. An online grade book providing fast analysis of class and individual student progress)
Photos for Class (Access safe images that are available to be used in the classroom and for educational purposes. Plus, accurate image citations. Download an image and then insert, citations added in final insert)
SlidesCarnival (FreePPT & Google Slides themes)
Kahoot! (Great games for reviews or general class lesson planning)