Google Chrome is so much more than a browser. Check out the apps and extensions you can use with your students to streamline your internet and aid struggling learners.

1. Google Chrome:
Apps and Extensions for
Education
 ICEChip Mini-Conference
 March 23, 2013
 Win Biernacki
 win.biernacki@gmail.com
 @winbiernacki

2. Why Chrome?
 All preferences saved & synced
 Apps
 Extensions
 Bookmarks
 Design
 Each user can manage their own

3. Omnibar allows URL or search
Extensions
Tool bar
Bookmarks bar

4. Apps and Extensions
Web apps: websites accessible
from your browser. Do not require
downloads
Extensions: affects browser globally.
An example: ability to perform text
to speech functions

5. Click ‘New Tab’
to view apps
Apps
Apps

6. Chrome Toolbar
 Manage your bookmarks
 Open ‘Incognito’ window’
 ‘Tools’: manage your extensions
 Chrome settings

7. Chrome Web Store
 Click link at bottom right
 Search ‘Apps’ or ‘Extensions’

8. Apps
 Speech Recognizer: speech to text, also
offline access
 VoiceNote: speech to text in word proc
 Magic Scroll: use to read ePub files on
desktop or laptop, no internet needed
 Remote Desktop App: allows your
computer to be accessed by another
with app-generated code from you
 Study Stack: generate flashcards or
choose from those already created

9. Apps (cont’d)
 Blackboard: use your monitor as you
would an actual blackboard
 Periodic Table of the Elements: Handy
reference guide for students
 VoiceThread: Recorded cloud
conversations include voice, text and
video.
 Planetarium: Check out the night sky in
any location in the world
 Typing Test – Key Hero: online typing tests
and skill builder

10. Extensions
 Evernote Web Clipper: allows you to take
a screenshot – all or portion - and add it
to your Evernote files
 Evernote Clearly: removes sidebars and
other data from a webpage. Allows you
to highlight, add text, print, and add to
your Evernote docs
 EasyBib: evaluate websites for credibility,
add citations to EasyBib acct. To use:
type ‘easybib’ then TAB, then search
 Select and Speak: Highlight text, click
icon and listen

11. Extensions (cont’d)
 Announcify: text to speech. Click on
icon, page is read to you. Removes
sidebars and enlarges text
 Dualless: allows you to split your screen.
Students can see two websites at once, or
a doc and a website, etc.
 Google Dictionary: select text on any
webpage, click to get definition.
 ImTranslate-Google Translator: select text
on page, choose language and receive
text and speech translation.

12. Extensions (cont’d)
 Awesome Screenshot: screen capture,
annotate, save
 A Cleaner Internet: Allows your students
to view YouTube videos without all the
side content, comments, etc. Not
available in Chrome store, do search.
 Oweb Voice Input: allows voice input on
any web pages with textbox

13. Bookmarklet
 Printliminator: works in Chrome, Safari and
Firefox. Select only the elements on the
webpage you wish to print.

14. Today’s Presentation:
Google Docs http://bit.ly/YuNtV7
Please feel free to email me with any
questions:
win.biernacki@gmail.com
THANK YOU!