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Spice Up Your Browser

with Chrome

Extensions

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Pimp Your Browser

with Chrome

Extensions

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bit.ly/chromenevada

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Extension? Eh?

Mini-Programs that modify the Chrome Browser (which I hope you’re all using!)

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Find them in the “Chrome Web Store”

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Easily perform tough tasks with a click. Just. Like. Magic!

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2000+ extensions in Chrome Web Store

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Should help you Automate your classroom to free up time that you can work with students.

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Interactive Session… if you have any that you use that aren’t in this preso, please add them to the last side!

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For example, shorten links with one click...

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But that’s not all...

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For the ladies...

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Hey Girl!

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Nickelblock

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The “Big (Hero) 6”

Google Dictionary → Double click any word on a webpage, get its definition

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Google Docs Quick Create → Make Google Drive files in SECONDS

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Share to Google Classroom → Magically push out any website to your students devices!

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Move it! → Get your students moving on a set interval!

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Ad Block Plus → Blocks most ads!

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Google Calendar Chrome Extension → Does exactly what it says

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Chrome Extensions!

Here are some of my favorites:

→ AdBlock Plus (Blocks annoying ads on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc)

→ Announcify (Reads a web page to you)

→ 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)

→ Awesome Screenshot (Capture images and annotate them, too!)

→ bit.ly → Shrink and customize links with one click.

→ Black Menu (Puts all the major Google Apps in one place)

→ Calendar (Always tells you how much time until your next event. Click to see week’s calendar)

→ Checker Plus for Gmail (Think of it as “notifications” for gmail)

→ Citable (Let’s you collect web resources easily onto one spreadsheet. Great for students doing research!)

→ 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).

→ Extensions Manager

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Earth View → Changes new tabs into pretty views of Earth

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Goobric (allows you to add a rubric onto the end of a Google Doc. Works alongside the Doctopus Script)

→ 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!

→ Google Dictionary (double click on a word, learn its meaning. Great for students on Chromebooks!)

→ Google Docs Quick Create (Make a doc, spreadsheet, drawing, right in your browser)

→ Google Link Shortener (shrinks really l o n g links with one click)

→ Google Similar Pages (Does exactly what you think it does, with the click of a button!)

→ Google Translate (Does exactly what you think it does)

→ Google Voice (Call or text, right from your browser. Have to set up a Google Voice account first)

→ MakeGIF Video Capture (Turns any youtube video into a GIF file)

→ Move it! (Set interval for fun activites!)

→ Name Generator (Instantly creates a name for a group of students. Great for those “indecisive” students!)

-->Goo.gl URL Shortener → shortens links with a click! Makes QR codes, too!

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→ One Click Timer (Easy timer with the click of a button)

→ One Tab (Puts your Chrome Tabs onto one page)

→ Save to Google Drive Extension

→ Send This Link With Gmail

→ Share to Classroom

→ SnagIt for Chrome! → Capture and Annotate screenshots with ease. Can do Screencasting now!

→ Spreed - Kind of a weird one, but helps you “Speed Read” a webpage.

→ Tab Carousel - Turns your Chrome Tabs into a Slide Show.

→ Time Stats - Keep Track of where you’ve been, in a pie graph!

→ Tone - Send websites to your students, with sound!

→ Turn Off the Lights! - Makes everything go dark except for a video you’re playing.

→ Wolfram Alpha - Think of it as a STEM Search engine.

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