I am slowly gearing up for having Chromebooks in my classroom this fall and will also be testing (since I haven't felt it was good enough until now) Google Classroom. In that endeavor I found Alice Keeler's Chrome extension (her blog is also very helpful) to let you split your window so you can have your gradebook on one side and the student work on the other. Of course if you don't want her extension, just watch my video video below on how to do it by opening up two windows.
- Snag-it For Chrome & Google Drive
This is pretty cool. I have used Snag-it at school for years, but it is almost a pain as I have to go find it most of the time on my tools and I much prefer to have apps added to Chrome. Well now I am all set as Snag-it has a Chrome add on...
- Snag-it And Screen Cast For Chrome
Google just released Snagit for Chrome and the really cool thing about it is that it has a screencasting feature. Although that feature is still in beta, it works very well and allows you to easily publish to YouTube. The video clip above shows you how...
- You Tube Without Ads
Free technology for Teachers has a story and link to a great Chrome extension called A Cleaner internet. It cleans up every You Tube video of ads. And it works, all automatically I installed it yesterday and all the You Tube videos run without any ads....
- Google Drive Extension For Reading, Dictionary, Pictionary And More
In three weeks I am presenting to a special education classroom and have started doing some research of education technology I want to show them in my 90 minutes (which I will post here on that day). For now I found this great extension (watch...
- New Google Changes
Google has been making a lot of changes recently to streamline all of its offerings into one area (part of CEO Larry Page's design) and in turn get people to join Google+. I've read that it is up to 100 million, but my sense (and it is...