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Where are you at with Chrome?

Is this your first time?

Why are you here?

Are you 1:1 Chromebooks?

Trying to be more efficient online?

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Hotdog

• Incognito mode.
• Chrome doesn’t record your
• browsing history
• download history
• Cookies that are stored during the incognito mode are deleted when you close the browser.
• PC Ctrl + Shift + N
• Mac Command +Shift+ N
• Recent Tabs

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Tip

Great if you have to check something in another account when using a student Chromebook

Chromesync

• Sign in
• Tab syncing between devices
• Smartphone
• Computer
• Tablet
• Settings > recent tabs
• to see recent browsing sessions from other devices

Why sign in

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Bookmark Bar

• Easily bookmark a page
• Click the “star” icon on the end of the address bar
• Keyboard shortcut
• PC Ctrl + D
• Mac Command + D
• Right click to “Edit” the site title to delete the text to make more room for bookmarks
• Toggle the bookmarks bar on and off
• PC Ctrl + Shift + B
• Mac Command + Shift + B

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Chrome Settings

• Settings
• Pages to load on Startup
• Set your search engine for the omnibox
• Set Chrome as default browser
• View/Edit your extensions Extensions
• View/Edit your History

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• Home icon on the omnibar
• Settings
• under Appearance,
• check Show Home button
• Change the appearance of Chrome
• Themes

Download/Upload Files

• Download a file
• Copy it to the desktop or to any other folder by dragging it directly from Google Chrome’s downloads bar
• Small bar at the bottom of the page
• Visable download progress
• Drag a file from this downloads bar to upload files
• History of downloads
• Go to the hotdog
• Downloads
• PC Ctrl + Shift + j
• Mac Command + Shift + j

Profiles

• You can set up multiple profiles.
• A profile keeps your bookmarks ,extensions, themes and settings
• To do this
• Click the Hotdog, then settings and search for Profiles

or

• open chrome://settings/search#profile from the address bar
• Click Add New User

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Right Click on a Tab

• Pin tab
• Right click any tab and select “Pin tab”
• Chrome will remember the tabs you pinned and open them next time you open Chrome
• Chrome will arrange pinned tabs to the extreme left of your Chrome windows

Omnibox

• Omnibox or the address bar of Chrome can do a lot of things other than opening web pages and searching Google
• Quickest way to get to the Omnibox
• PC- Control + L
• Mac-Command + L
• Use it as a calculator for basic calculation
• Try typing 4*10
• Use it as a Dictionary (Right click in Omnibox>Edit Search Engines)
• Add new search engine: Dictionary.com
• Keyword: dic
• URL: http://dictionary.com/browse/%s
• Type in
• Time in Berlin
• 50 Euro to USD
• Type in “Miley Cyrus Bacon Number”

Omnibox

• Use it to search your Drive
• Add new search engine: Google Drive
• Keyword: gdr
• URL: http://drive.google.com/?hl=en&tab=bo#search/%s
• Use it to add to your Calendar
• Add new search engine: Add Calendar Event
• Keyword: cal
• URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/event?ctext=+%s+&action=TEMPLATE&pprop=HowCreated%3AQUICKADD

Omnibox

• Omnibox Timer
• Use as a timer
• “tm” followed by Space or Tab “Call Angie”
• s for seconds
• m for minutes
• h for hours

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• OmniTab
• Use when you have too many tabs open and you can’t see the headers
• Type o then tab or space and start typing the title of a tab you have open

Omnibox

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95440?hl=en

Click and drag icon to make desktop shortcut

Basic Keyboard Shortcuts

Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

Mac Keyboard Shortcuts

More Keyboard Shortcuts

More Keyboard Shortcuts

Chrome Time Savers

• Click and drag tabs to re-arrange their position.
• Drag a tab away to make it a separate window.
• If you want to run a search query using copied text, right click in omnibox and use “Paste and Search”
• If the text you copied is a web page, open a new tab and right click on the address bar to get “Paste and Go”

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Explore on your own!

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Ask questions!

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Go cool off!

Extensions

Angie’s Extensions

• 1 Click timer
• Google Cast
• goo.gl
• Send from Gmail
• Split Screen
• TabCloud

Eric’s Extensions

• Google Voice
• Send to phone
• Webpage Screenshot
• Clip to Evernote
• One click timer

More Extensions we like

Your Task

• Set a timer for 10 minutes
• What is Chevy Chase's Bacon?
• What is your favorite Celebrities Bacon number?
• What extensions do you find useful? What are not so useful?
• How can you use one extension in your daily classroom for instruction, management or overall efficiency?

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Offline apps

• Information about offline apps

Your Task

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• Create a Blendspace or Lucidchart that includes at least five different resources for a lesson in your content area
• Create a goo.gl to your Blendspace presentation to share with students
• Create a QR for your Blendspace materials

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Resources

• http://www.chromestory.com/google-chrome-tips-and-tricks/
• https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/1047364?hl=en
• Chromebook EDU
• https://sites.google.com/site/chromebookedu/tips-and-tricks

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