Web Apps & Extensions
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Web Apps & Extensions Categories
Accessibility Extensions
Announcify - Reads web page material - remedial support?
Google Translate - This extension translates entire webpages into a language of your choice with one click.
ChromeVox - Giving Voice to Chrome
ChromeVox - video
Introduction to Web Accessibility Get started today at http://g.co/webaccessibility
Readability - The official Readability extension for Chrome provides a better way to read online, turning any web page into a comfortable reading view right in your web browser.
Read&Write - This extension will highlight as it read aloud your Google Docs. It also provides a Dictionary, Picture Finder, Fact Finder, Translator, Highlighter, and Vocabulary tool. This is a great tool, but there is now a charge to use it.
Select and Speak - Another accessibility extension, Select and Speak will narrate any web text to students. They can highlight sections and have it read to them at various speeds. Good for ESL or ELL students practicing their English reading.
Chrome Speak - Select text, right click, and Chrome Speak will read it to you.
Supporting Struggling Learners in Chrome
Classroom Management
Organizational / Utility / Productivity
Ad Block - Blocks ads all over the web.
Extensity - manage your extensions easily and quickly.
Office Editing for Docs, Sheets, and Slides
Kaizena - Lin Carta a mi amigo (Letter to my friend)
Save to Google Drive - Save web content or screen capture directly to Google Drive.
Awesome New Tab Page - Enhance your New Tab Page with ultimate customizability and power. You need to open a new tab after you add this extension to see it in action. ***If you use this extension, use it in conjunction with Ad Block above.
Goo.gl Url Shortener - URL Shortener, QR Code Creator, and more.
One Tab - Save up to 95% memory and reduce tab clutter
Gmail Checker - Displays the number of unread messages in your Google Mail inbox. You can also click the button to open your inbox.
Send from Gmail - Provides a button to compose a Gmail message to quickly share a link via email
Presentation Remote - Use smartphone as a remote control for presentations on Prezi, Google Drive, slideshare, and dropbox.
Snag-it - lets you edit, share, and collaborate around your screen captures & casts. This app works in conjunction with the extension below.
Snag-it - Screen capture & casting extension that can use the app to edit and annotate a portion of your screen as an image. Then you can embed it into your presentations, documents and videos.
Screencastify - screencast extension
Cramberry - Cramberry helps you memorize things quickly with smart online flash cards.
Google Translate Chrome Extension
Google Dictionary Chrome Extension
Note taking
Google Keep - Quickly capture what’s on your mind and be reminded at the right place or time.
Diigo Web Collector - Places a button on your browser window and links to your Diigo account for easy bookmarking, web highlighting, and sharing.
Evernote Web Clipper - Lets you send any link or site to Evernote.
Mic Note - Record voice while taking notes synced, for lectures,meetings,conferences,interviews.
Video
YouTube Options- disables ads, annotations, and auto-play; changes resolution, display size, optional flash pre-buffering, looping/replay for any YouTube video.
PopOut YouTube - pops a YouTube video out into a new resizable window.
Turn Off the lights - The entire page will be fading to dark, so you can watch the video as if you were in the cinema.
YouTube Movie Editor - editor you videos you upload to YouTube
Magisto - video editor is a fun and easy way to automatically edit videos and share them with your friends and family.
WeVideo Next - video creation tool
e-Reference
Citation Machine - helps students and professional researchers to properly credit the information that they use
KnightCite - online citation generator service provided by the Hekman Library of Calvin College
EasyBib - Online bibliography management and information literacy platform
Audio
Sound Gecko - Listen to text, web articles and documents with SoundGecko.
SpeakIt! - Select text, and it will read it to you.
Beatlab is the easiest way to create music and share it with your friends.
Audio Converter - Convert audio files online from one format into another.
Online Voice Recorder - 7 mins of recording
Photo Editing
Pixlr - Photo editing tool
Picmonkey - Free photo editor with Collage, Touch Up, Teeth Whiten, Fonts, Effects, Filters, Frames, Stickers & more.
Web Cam Toy - Take photos with your webcam using over 80 free fun effects. Save photos to your Chromebook or post to Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook!
iPiccy Photo Editor - iPiccy makes your photo awesome with many easy to use photo tools. Edit pictures, apply beautiful photo effects, add text and paint!
Subject/Content Area Specific
Art
Sumo Paint - a full featured painting and image editing application featuring an active art community
Google Cultural Institute's Art Project
English
Have students write reviews books on Amazon or Google Play Store
Learning in Context: Reading Comprehension - aids students in learning how to read text passages for comprehension. Students will collect and review vocabulary words, and will complete short exercises to check their understanding.
FCS
Recipe Chrome Apps & Extensions
Resouces for the FCS Classroom
Planner 5d - have students plan any room for interior design or creating their dream kitchen.
BBC Good Food - Over 160 healthy recipes.
Yumm Recipes - Save all your favorite recipes in one recipe box.
Diet Diary - Your personal diet diary to help you track your exercise, calories and water intake.
HealthAliciousNess - Get detailed information on Fruits and Vegetables, including: Health Benefits, Nutrition Facts, and How to Select and Store. Learn which foods are the most nutritious. Learn how to create recipes which are more nutritious
Serious Eats - a family of websites dedicated to the celebration of food—of all kinds.
Health & PE
Google Chrome & Physical Education - Apps & Extension
Wolfram Alpha Computational Search Engine (Health & Medicine Examples)
Math
Plotty - a scientific-quality graphing in the classroom or at work. Need to make a line of best fit for your data? Plotly is a perfect choice. Need to do ANOVA or other statistics functions on your data?
Population Statistics - Learning in Context: Population Statistics guides students through collecting data about two statistical populations, visualizing statistical distributions, and drawing comparative inferences. Designed for the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.
City-Data.com - By collecting and analyzing data from numerous sources, we're able to create detailed, informative profiles of all cities in the United States. From crime rates to weather patterns, you can find the data you're looking for on City-Data.com.
Numerics Calculator and Converter - Powerful calculator and converter for Chrome. The easiest way to calculate. Works offline
GeoGebra - Dynamic math software, GeoGebraTube (examples)
Sketchometry - sketchometry is dynamic mathematics software for doing Euclidean geometry and function plotting
Desmos Graphing Calculator - Beautiful, powerful, free math exploration
Wolfram Alpha Computational Search Engine
Google Maps & GeoGebra - Distance Formula Activity
CK-12 - an app to help students, teachers and parents improve K-12 learning globally. Learn at your own pace and in your own style! (videos, images, interactive objects, etc)
Math Apps/Extensions/Sites/Links - from Dan Kaufmann
Daum Equation Editor - create math equations/formulas easily as images or in LaTex
The Mathist - The Mathist lets you write math notes and save them to Google Drive.
Noteflight - Create music notation right in your browser and be part of a music composition community
4th Grade Student using NoteFlight to learn fractions
Music
Incredibox - create, record and share your mix. (versions 1-4)
Sound Trap - similar to Audacity in having multitrack audio editing
Screencastify - Screencasting on a Chromebook (Student Recording)
Musictheory.net - Lessons, exercises and tools for the music classroom.
Teoria - a web site dedicated to the study and practice of music theory.
Noteflight - Create music notation right in your browser and be part of a music composition community.
UJAM - Make your own music, works with Google Drive
Chromatik - Get notified when Chromatik becomes available on Android and web, not yet for the Chromebook, but looks promising.
Beatlab - a basic beat generator
JAM with Chrome - allows you to play music with friends (this is also a web app)
SoundCloud - Create, record and share the sounds you create with anyone using SoundCloud.
Soundation - online music studio with recording, effects, virtual instruments and 700+ free loops and sounds.
CLEAR's Rich Internet Applications - created for the world language classroom but the audio tools would fit nicely into a music classroom.
Music Notation Training - Learn to read sheet music. Treble and bass clef are supported.
Twisted Wave - audio editor that works with Google Drive
Music Player for Google Drive - Music and Audio files player for Google Drive.
AudioTool - an online music production studio right in your browser.
Apps Development by earstudio.org - Learn music better, everywhere
Chords Free - An ear training web application
Guitar Chrome Apps
Pug's Notation Training - Pass through all exercises, learn new notes.
Metronome Chrome Apps
More Music Chrome Apps & Extensions
Science
Wolfram Alpha Computational Search Engine
Periodex - Elegant periodic table of elements
Ray Optics Simulation - Simulate reflection and refraction of light.
Social Studies
Fantasy Geopolitics - The social learning game that follows countries & world leaders as they compete for news headlines.
MyHistro - stories displayed on maps and geo-located interactive timelines.
World Data Atlas - Key statistics, data and visualizations about the world and world's countries and regions at your fingertips
The World History TimeMap contains over 660 history maps and 1,000 pages of high-quality supporting narrative, wrapped up in a unique interface that creates a framework for world history.
Ancient History Encyclopedia is a non-profit community project that uses definitions, timelines, maps, illustrations, and articles to present ancient history in a very accessible way.
DOGOnews is the leading destination for Current Events Articles for Kids and Teachers.
Today in history with over 40,000 historical events, provides historical events for each day of the year. The built-in news feed reader displays current events that will become part of history tomorrow. You can even add your own historical events.
City-Data.com - By collecting and analyzing data from numerous sources, we're able to create detailed, informative profiles of all cities in the United States. From crime rates to weather patterns, you can find the data you're looking for on City-Data.com.
World Language
Google Translate - Handwriting Translation
Google Translate - This extension translates entire webpages into a language of your choice with one click.
CLEAR Rich Internet Applications - from MSU
Recording Audio in Drive using Twisted Wave and Music Player for Drive
Elementary
Chromebook Apps and Extensions for Elementary Teachers
Presentation / Creation Web Apps
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Chrome Experiments - so cool!
The Wilderness Downtown - put in your address where you grew up and take a run down your old street.
Hollow Documentary - a powerful story telling of McDowell County in West Virginia, it's rise and fall and it's struggles.
Night walk in Marseille - Explore the sounds, streets and soul of the city