Chrome Apps
Listed below are just a few of our favorite classroom and teacher apps. Go to the Chrome Web Store to search for more!
PDF Mergy Combine multiple PDF files (and Google Docs) into one document
PDF Split Extract individual pages out of a multiple page PDF file
Turn Off the Lights Fade the entire webpage to dark, so you can watch the videos as if you were in a cinema
Webcam Toy Take photos with your webcam and add special effects
Pixlr Photoshop lite, online & free
Desmos Graphing Calculator
Cacoo mind mapping and diagramming
PowToon cartoon creator
Loupe Collage Uses your photos to create collages in any shape that you want
WeVideo online collaborative video editor
VideoNot.es Take notes alongside your video, then upload or save your notes
Padlet Lets you add anything to a blank wall - photos, links, videos, images, etc.
Blendspace Collect web resources in one place and share with a link, measure student understanding with built-in quizzes, and monitor student progress and adapt to student needs in real-time
Piktochart Inforgraphic poster creator
Newsela Current news articles at 5 reading levels, grades 3-12, published daily, adapting to every reading level of each student by adjusting the text complexity
LucidPress for Education A legitimate drag & drop Publisher alternative
LucidChart for Education A Flexible mind-mapping graphic organizer tool.
Design Something A simple 3D design tool
Twisted Wave A fully-featured, browser-based audio editor
Canva
Discovery Education
Google Classroom
Google Keep
Weebly
Socrative
Schoology
Exit Ticket
Bitstrips
EdPuzzle
Realtime Board for Educaiton
Conceptboard
Note Board Web
Movenote (no longer free)
VoiceNote II
CI-12
Chrome Music Lab
EasyBib
Beautiful Audio Editor
YouTube
Drive Webcam
Audio Cutter
Animoto
PowToon
Google Cast for Education
Wix
Biodigital Human
Pixect
PicMonkey
Desmos Graphing Calculator
PDF Rotate
Be Funky Photo Editor
Kindle Cloud Reader
PDF Mergy Combine multiple PDF files (and Google Docs) into one document
PDF Split Extract individual pages out of a multiple page PDF file
Turn Off the Lights Fade the entire webpage to dark, so you can watch the videos as if you were in a cinema
Webcam Toy Take photos with your webcam and add special effects
Pixlr Photoshop lite, online & free
Desmos Graphing Calculator
Cacoo mind mapping and diagramming
PowToon cartoon creator
Loupe Collage Uses your photos to create collages in any shape that you want
WeVideo online collaborative video editor
VideoNot.es Take notes alongside your video, then upload or save your notes
Padlet Lets you add anything to a blank wall - photos, links, videos, images, etc.
Blendspace Collect web resources in one place and share with a link, measure student understanding with built-in quizzes, and monitor student progress and adapt to student needs in real-time
Piktochart Inforgraphic poster creator
Newsela Current news articles at 5 reading levels, grades 3-12, published daily, adapting to every reading level of each student by adjusting the text complexity
LucidPress for Education A legitimate drag & drop Publisher alternative
LucidChart for Education A Flexible mind-mapping graphic organizer tool.
Design Something A simple 3D design tool
Twisted Wave A fully-featured, browser-based audio editor
Canva
Discovery Education
Google Classroom
Google Keep
Weebly
Socrative
Schoology
Exit Ticket
Bitstrips
EdPuzzle
Realtime Board for Educaiton
Conceptboard
Note Board Web
Movenote (no longer free)
VoiceNote II
CI-12
Chrome Music Lab
EasyBib
Beautiful Audio Editor
YouTube
Drive Webcam
Audio Cutter
Animoto
PowToon
Google Cast for Education
Wix
Biodigital Human
Pixect
PicMonkey
Desmos Graphing Calculator
PDF Rotate
Be Funky Photo Editor
Kindle Cloud Reader
Chrome Extensions
Speakit! Highlight online text, then click the Speakit! button to have the text read aloud
Grammarly automatically offers suggestions for possible spelling and grammatical errors in your written text
Google Drive Save Accept, allow, and grant access to your Drive. From then on, a click on the upper right hand icon or right click on any image or file will save that web content directly to your Google Drive. This extension adds a right (two-finger tap) click context menu to save hyperlinks and media files, plus a browser action to save the entire current page within a folder.
Extensity A quick and easy way to enable/disable all your Chrome extensions, increasing browser speed and your toolbar clean
LinkClump A quick and easy way to open multiple links at one time
AwesomeScreenshot Annotate and share your webpage screenshot. Capture part or all of any webpage, crop it, annotate it with rectangles, circles, arrows, lines, and text, erase parts of it, copy and paste it directly to a Doc (Word or Google), save it locally or to your Drive. Even open it from Drive with Pixlr for full editing.
Alice Keeler's Classroom Split
Alice Keeler's Anyone Can View
Alice Keeler's Open SIde by Side
Alice Keeler's Quickshare Screenshot
Google Tone - broadcast a URL to anyone close by that has this extension
TurboNote
Goo.gl URL Shortener
Bitly URL Shortener
Share to Google Classroom
Grammarly
Google Keep
EasyBib Toolbar
Black Menu
Ad Block
Google Cast for Education (app that automatically installs the needed extension)
Google Apps and Chromebooks, and the Chrome Web Browser, offer a tremendous amount of accessibility features to help vision and/or hearing impaired students.
Google Accessibility, Using Google Products, http://www.google.com/accessibility/products/, contains a wealth of information and resources, along with apps, that can help students, and teachers.
Chrome Toolbox http://www.chrometoolbox.com/ - This collaborative space was created to celebrate the many Apps and Extensions made by developers which serve the accessibility needs of individuals with disabilities.
Accessibility Options on Chromebooks http://www.chromestory.com/2013/02/accessibility-options-on-chromebooks/
Some of the main features:
Google updates Drive and Docs with improved screen reader, Braille display, and accessibility phone support
http://thenextweb.com/google/2014/09/11/google-updates-drive-docs-improved-screen-reader-braille-display-accessibility-phone-support/
Increased accessibility with Braille display support for Google Docs, Slides and Drawings
If you use a Braille display, you can now enable Braille support in Google Docs, Slides and Drawings to read and enter text. This option is currently available for Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.
http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2014/06/increased-accessibility-with-braille.html
ELL Resources
5 Good Apps for ESL / ELL Students: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/03/5-good-apps-for-esl-ell-students.html#.Ux75Qj9dWN0
Google Accessibility, Using Google Products, http://www.google.com/accessibility/products/, contains a wealth of information and resources, along with apps, that can help students, and teachers.
Chrome Toolbox http://www.chrometoolbox.com/ - This collaborative space was created to celebrate the many Apps and Extensions made by developers which serve the accessibility needs of individuals with disabilities.
Accessibility Options on Chromebooks http://www.chromestory.com/2013/02/accessibility-options-on-chromebooks/
Some of the main features:
- Chrome Browser - includes screen readers and magnifiers, full page zoom, high contrast color, and more.
- To zoom in on a page on a Chromebook, click CTRL + to zoom out CTRL -
- The newest update to Chrome OS (Nov 2013) now has support for USB-connected Braille displays
- Chrome OS and ChromeVox - Chrome OS (Chromebooks) include a built in screen reader, ChromeVox. It is also an extension for the Chrome Browser. http://www.chromevox.com/
- Google Docs and Sites - screen reader allows ease of use
- YouTube Captions
- Magnifier Extension for Chrome - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/magnifier-extension/mmknioomkplkkfgaobefmklldbanoaok?hl=en-US
- Voice Comments - allows you to leave voice comments, instead of just text, in Google Drive/Docs https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/voice-comments/hcdoaikeblbbiphjibkhliiedjhnbbke?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon
- Alternatives to Inspiration: http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com/2012/04/6-free-mindmapping-appsservices-for.html
Google updates Drive and Docs with improved screen reader, Braille display, and accessibility phone support
http://thenextweb.com/google/2014/09/11/google-updates-drive-docs-improved-screen-reader-braille-display-accessibility-phone-support/
- Read&Write converts Speech to Text and Text to Speech for Google Watch the video Introduction to Read & Write for Google to learn more.
- Speak It - Google Chrome extension that enables you to have the text on most webpages read to you. With Speak It installed just highlight the text on a the page you're viewing then right-click to activate Speak It. Then click the play button to have the text read to you. The voice is very digitized, but it is clear.
- Select and Speak lets you select text from almost any website and make it talk
- Voice Recognition - Type with your voice. Dictation turns your Google Chrome into a speech recognition app
- DictaNote Speech Recognizer
- Google Voice Typing
Increased accessibility with Braille display support for Google Docs, Slides and Drawings
If you use a Braille display, you can now enable Braille support in Google Docs, Slides and Drawings to read and enter text. This option is currently available for Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.
http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2014/06/increased-accessibility-with-braille.html
ELL Resources
5 Good Apps for ESL / ELL Students: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/03/5-good-apps-for-esl-ell-students.html#.Ux75Qj9dWN0
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