Google Chrome Extensions
What are extensions?
Extensions are small software programs that can modify and enhance the functionality of the chrome browser.
Extensions bundle all their files into a single file that the user downloads and installs. This bundling means that, unlike ordinary web apps, extensions don't need to depend on content from the web.
Easily perform tough tasks with a click.
Find them in the 'Chrome Web Store.' 2000+ extensions in Chrome Web Store.
Should help you Automate your classroom to free up time that you can work with students.
Extensions are small software programs that can modify and enhance the functionality of the chrome browser.
Extensions bundle all their files into a single file that the user downloads and installs. This bundling means that, unlike ordinary web apps, extensions don't need to depend on content from the web.
Easily perform tough tasks with a click.
Find them in the 'Chrome Web Store.' 2000+ extensions in Chrome Web Store.
Should help you Automate your classroom to free up time that you can work with students.
Extensions
Name Generator (Instantly creates a name for a group of students. Great for those “indecisive” students!)
→ Google Voice (Call or text, right from your browser. Have to set up a Google Voice account first)
→ AdBlock Plus (Blocks annoying adds on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc)
→ Google Docs Quick Create (Make a doc, spreadsheet, drawing, right in your browser)
→ Tools for Google Maps (Measure Paths on Google Maps, get the distance between multiple points)
→ PullQuote (Grab a section of text, instantly share it out to a group of students via Social Media)
→ Save to Google Drive Extension
→ Google Cast! Need to purchase a “Chromecast” from BestBuy first. Lets you stream any tab you want to a projector. Apple TV is on upset alert!
→ SnagIt! → Capture and Annotate screenshots with ease. Can do Screencasting now!
→ Send This Link With Gmail
→ Screencastify (create free screen captures that upload to youtube with the click of the mouse)
→ Chrome to Mobile (send any link directly to your phone in one click)
→ Google Dictionary (double click on a word, learn its meaning. Great for students on Chromebooks!)
→ Awesome Screenshot (Capture images and annotate them, too!)
→ Google Translate (Does exactly what you think it does)
→ Google Link Shortener (shrinks really l o n g links with one click)
→ Announcify (Reads a web page to you)
→ Clearly (Gets rid of everything on a page but the text. Makes for easy reading)
→ ColorPick Eyedropper (Tells you color number. Great for web page design. You can design a webpage color scheme around famous works of art like this one). Props to Jim Sill for the idea!
→ One Tab (Puts your Chrome Tabs onto one page)
→ Goobric (allows you to add a rubric onto the end of a Google Doc. Works alongside the Doctopus Script)
→ Wolfram Alpha (Think of it as a STEM Search engine.)
→ MakeGIF Video Capture (Turns any youtube video into a GIF file)
→ Citable (Let’s you collect web resources easily onto one spreadsheet. Great for students doing research!)
→ Turn Off the Lights! (Makes everything go dark except for a video you’re playing).
→ Calendar (Always tells you how much time until your next event. Click to see week’s calendar)
→ Auto Refresh Plus (Auto reloads a page the amount of times you tell it to, 5 sec, 10 sec, etc. Great for sites that has student data appearing on it)
→ Google Voice (Call or text, right from your browser. Have to set up a Google Voice account first)
→ AdBlock Plus (Blocks annoying adds on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc)
→ Google Docs Quick Create (Make a doc, spreadsheet, drawing, right in your browser)
→ Tools for Google Maps (Measure Paths on Google Maps, get the distance between multiple points)
→ PullQuote (Grab a section of text, instantly share it out to a group of students via Social Media)
→ Save to Google Drive Extension
→ Google Cast! Need to purchase a “Chromecast” from BestBuy first. Lets you stream any tab you want to a projector. Apple TV is on upset alert!
→ SnagIt! → Capture and Annotate screenshots with ease. Can do Screencasting now!
→ Send This Link With Gmail
→ Screencastify (create free screen captures that upload to youtube with the click of the mouse)
→ Chrome to Mobile (send any link directly to your phone in one click)
→ Google Dictionary (double click on a word, learn its meaning. Great for students on Chromebooks!)
→ Awesome Screenshot (Capture images and annotate them, too!)
→ Google Translate (Does exactly what you think it does)
→ Google Link Shortener (shrinks really l o n g links with one click)
→ Announcify (Reads a web page to you)
→ Clearly (Gets rid of everything on a page but the text. Makes for easy reading)
→ ColorPick Eyedropper (Tells you color number. Great for web page design. You can design a webpage color scheme around famous works of art like this one). Props to Jim Sill for the idea!
→ One Tab (Puts your Chrome Tabs onto one page)
→ Goobric (allows you to add a rubric onto the end of a Google Doc. Works alongside the Doctopus Script)
→ Wolfram Alpha (Think of it as a STEM Search engine.)
→ MakeGIF Video Capture (Turns any youtube video into a GIF file)
→ Citable (Let’s you collect web resources easily onto one spreadsheet. Great for students doing research!)
→ Turn Off the Lights! (Makes everything go dark except for a video you’re playing).
→ Calendar (Always tells you how much time until your next event. Click to see week’s calendar)
→ Auto Refresh Plus (Auto reloads a page the amount of times you tell it to, 5 sec, 10 sec, etc. Great for sites that has student data appearing on it)
List generated by Donnie Piercey, 2014