3. Free – Google’s platform
Fast
Reliable
It has overtaken IE as the top browser
Stable across all platforms
Has all these amazing free add-ons to
improve browsing from the Chrome webstore
Sign in to multiple accounts – fantastic
feature
17. Click on the one you want to install and follow the
prompts…
18. Turn OFF the Lights is a fantastic little extension that will take YouTube
videos and darken the entire screen around the video leaving your video lit
up! The focus will be solely on the video you want to show the students in
your classroom! No distractions! The entire page will be darkened, so you
can watch the video as if you were in the cinema. Click again and the page
will return back as normal. Look at this before and after comparison.
Before After
19. This is SO useful for your students especially primary
school students. This tool can be very useful when
students are researching as whenever they double
click on a word the meaning is displayed as shown
below. The meaning simply pops up in a yellow box.
20. This is a great annotation tool. With this tool
you can capture the whole page or any
portion, and annotate it with rectangles,
circles, arrows, lines and text, blur sensitive
info, etc.
21. This takes a picture of your web page immediately and
all you have to do is save it. It is like Printscreen except
that you can also do the following to the page:
*Draw
*Edit
*Cut
*Change
*Resolution
*Write
Comments
*Share via
Gmail
22. This is described as ‘The most popular Chrome extension, with
over 10 million users! Blocks ads all over the web.’ How often
are you in YouTube and the ads start appearing? It is most
annoying. AdBlock It works automatically: just click "Add to
Chrome," then visit your favourite website and see the ads
disappear!
23. Whenever you are in a website and you want to
shorten the link to promote it on Facebook or
Twitter, the URL shortener is right there on the
browser bar. You cick on it and it gives you the
shortened version to copy.
24. This is useful if you want to open a Google Doc and write
something.
25. This extension lets you download web pages as PDFs in one click.
It uses https://pdfcrowd.com html to pdf online service. This can
save loads of time when wanting to download an interesting
resource to use later.
26. This is a useful extension if you collaborate a lot on Google Docs. It
could be very useful to a teacher. It notifies you if your Google Docs
change. If you have shared some documents with others on Google Docs
you normally have to go and check whether anyone's modified them.
This Chrome extension will list your shared documents that were
updated since the last time you have viewed them right from your
browser bar.
27. Diigo is a MUST for anyone who surfs the Internet. The extension added
to your browser enables you to quickly save something for later and
open it again on any computer where you have signed into Chrome. You
just click on the icon and it opens a box that will enable you to tag the
resource very easily. It is a case of:
1) Click on the extension icon
2) Choose ‘bookmark’
3) Add the tag name
4) Click on save
28. You might want to send the whole page to Google Docs either
as a document or a PDF and store it there.
29. Highlight the text that you want read, click on Text to Speech and sit
back and listen!
30. With more and more students going online in
class, these extensions could really assist
students with what they need to do in a task
right there in the browser.
The time-saving ability that these extensions
bring to a classroom is amazing.
