Over the last weekend, we spent sometime sifting through our Chrome extensions archive and curated for you the list below. We singled out the the apps that have been most popular among teachers and educators during the first six months of this year. The apps cover a range of themes from tools to enhance your productivity and help you stay focused to add-ons for annotating and editing PDFs, you will definitely find something to use in your teaching. Enjoy
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“Classroom is a new tool in Google Apps for Education that helps teachers create and organize assignments quickly, provide feedback efficiently, and easily communicate with their classes. Classroom helps students organize their work in Google Drive, complete and turn it in, and communicate directly with their teachers and peers.”
2- ClassDojo
“ ClassDojo helps teachers improve behavior in their classrooms quickly and easily. It captures and generates data on behavior that teachers can share with parents and administrators. ”
3- Google Keep
“Quickly capture what's on your mind and share those thoughts with friends and family. Speak a voice memo on the go and have it automatically transcribed. Grab a photo of a poster, receipt or document and easily find it later in search.”
4- Wunderlist
This is another great app that you can use to create as many to-do and task lists as you want. It also provides collaborative functionality that allow you to collaborate with your colleagues and engage in conversations about your to-dos. Lists created by Wanderlust can include photos, PDFs, presentations and many more. And to make sure you never forget any of your important deadlines, Wanderlust enables you to set reminders and get notifications of due dates.
5- Trello
Troll is great collaboration tool for keeping track of organized events, projects and tasks.You can work in team to organize tasks and be able to see who ’s working on what and where something is in a process.
6- Readability
“Readability is a web and mobile app that zaps clutter and saves web articles in a comfortable reading view. The official Readability extension for Chrome provides a better way to read online, turning any web page into a comfortable reading view right in your web browser.”
7- Clearly
“With one click, Clearly makes blog posts and articles clean and easy to read. Clearly eliminates all distractions from your online reading experience, and even allows you to browse multi-page articles in one, seamless view.”
8- OneTab
“Whenever you find yourself with too many tabs, click the OneTab icon to convert all of your tabs into a list. When you need to access the tabs again, you can either restore them individually or all at once.”
9-Lucidchart
“Lucidchart is a visual collaboration tool that makes drawing diagrams fast and easy. Work together with an unlimited number of others to create and edit diagrams in real time, with changes merged and synced instantaneously -- great for team collaboration and working with clients. ”
10- Socrative Teacher
“Engage, assess and personalize your class with Socrative!Educators can initiate formative assessments through quizzes, quick question polls, exit tickets and space races all with their Socrative Chrome app. Socrative will instantly grade, aggregate and provide visuals of results to help you identify opportunities for further instruction.”
11-PowToon
12- EDpuzzle
“EDpuzzle empowers teachers to make any video your lesson. Crop a video, explain it with your own voice and embed quizzes at any time”.
13- Padlet
"Padlet is the easiest way to create and collaborate in the world. It works like a sheet of paper where you can put anything (images, videos, documents, text) anywhere, from any device (pcs, tablets, phones), together with anyone."
14- Exam Time
"ExamTime is a personal learning environment that allows students & teachers to create, discover and share learning resources."
15- DocHub
DocHub is a tool that you can use to perform a variety of tasks on your PDFs and documents. It lets you sign, edit and share your PDFs and docs. You can also use it to fill forms, merge documents and create templates.
16- Print Friendly
Print Friendly is a handy Chrome extension that allows you to print your webpages in a print-friendly format. It also removes all the distractive elements in the page including ads and navigation so the page is optimized for the ultimate reading experience.
17- GeoGebra
GeoGebra (www.geogebra.org) is free dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that brings together geometry, algebra, spreadsheets, graphing, statistics and calculus in one easy-to-use package. Interactive learning, teaching and evaluation resources created with GeoGebra can be shared and used by everyone at tube.geogebra.org.
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