Good Editing Tools/Extensions for Student/Teacher Use Within Google Chrome (Chromebooks and Chrome Stations)
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Good Editing tools/extensions for student/teacher use within Google Chrome (Chromebooks and Chrome Stations) Teachers, If there is an extension or app that you find useful for classroom use, student use, or even teacher use please contact me and let me know so we can get it added to the district's “approved” list. Teachers can use anything they find but when installing on student machines and accounts, the extension or app must be approved. 1. Grammarly www.grammarly.com The free Spell Checker & Grammar Checker by Grammarly helps you write clearly and confidently on Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Tumblr, and nearly anywhere else on the Web. With Grammarly, you can always be sure that your words are mistake-free and say what you mean. 2. WeVideo www.wevideo.com WeVideo makes video editing easy for everyone and accessible from anywhere. EDITING - Different Editing Modes to suit novices and experts alike: Storyboard and Advanced Timeline - Connect to Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dailymotion, Box & Dropbox to easily use your photos, videos, music & graphics files already uploaded - Drag & drop media files in any order to assemble your story - Easily trim video clips to focus on key moments or set custom durations - Add text, effects, music, transitions and more - Add animation to videos, photos, text and annotations - Record voice-overs and video directly from the app - Get creative with over 100 royalty-free effects & audio clips - Adjust video speed (SloMo/FastMo) - Add titles and captions in your native language (most languages supported, including Mandarin, Spanish, English, Arabic, Portuguese, etc.) STYLING - Style your video using Themes that include music, transitions and titles - 32 professional and creative Themes PUBLISHING - Free version has watermark and 5 min per month of publishing time - 1080p HD Exports available (paid feature) - Publish to YouTube, Google Drive, Vimeo, Facebook, Dailymotion and more - Share videos on your favorite social sites or embed on your website COLLABORATION - Take turns editing or simply share each other's’ clip libraries WORKS SEAMLESSLY WITH GOOGLE DRIVE WeVideo adds a folder called "WeVideo" to your Google Drive directory. This folder will contain names of the WeVideo projects and videos you create. LANGUAGES Supports 22 languages (including Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic and many more) 3. Sumo Paint (for creating pictures and images) www.sumopaint.com Sumo Paint is a full featured painting and image editing application. Sumo Paint is a full featured painting and image editing application featuring an active art community of over 570 000 registered members and over 2 000 000 images.The app has the web's most versatile collection of image editing features blurring the line between desktop applications like Photoshop or Gimp. 4. Numerics Calculator and Converter www.numerics.info Powerful calculator and converter for Chrome. The easiest way to calculate. Works offline Numerics Calculator is fast and very user-friendly application to make your calculations easier and faster. It is the leading solution on Chrome Web Store for variety of both simple and complex calculations. 5. Wunderlist https://www.wunderlist.com (Great for students to create task lists, order of completion in ELA writing, etc…) The only way to organize your life and business Wunderlist helps millions of people around the world capture their ideas, things to do and places to see. Whether you’re sharing a grocery list with a loved one, working on a project, or planning a vacation, Wunderlist makes it easy to share your lists and collaborate with everyone in your life. Wunderlist instantly syncs between your phone, tablet and computer, so you can access your lists from anywhere. 6. Clipular https://www.clipular.com/welcome Allows students and teachers the ability to clip images from the net and organize and store directly into their google drive. 7. Quick Note https://www.diigo.com (Great for note taking with a chromebook) The quickest way to take notes in Chrome, as quick and slick as the best desktop note-app. Quick Note is especially designed for lightweight note-taking. You can use it as a simple notepad, scratchpad, clipboard, or to record todo lists. 8. Twistedwave twistedwave.com TwistedWave is a full featured audio editor that allows you to: - Edit audio files from your computer or your Google Drive, - Apply effects, - Save in one of many supported file formats, and export the file back to your disk, Google Drive or SoundCloud. 9. TinkerCad https://www.tinkercad.com/ Design 3D images for projects and class assignments 10. Lucidchart for Education https://www.lucidchart.com Diagramming software for students, educators, and faculty with an email address from accredited educational institutions. Lucidchart is a web-based diagramming tool that makes drawing diagrams fast and easy. Students can work individually on assignments or with an unlimited number of other classmates to create and edit diagrams in real time -- great for group projects. 11. Voice Recognition https://dictation.io Type with your voice. Dictation turns your Google Chrome into a speech recognition app. You can use Google Chrome as a voice recognition app and type long documents, emails and school essays without touching the keyboard. The app is integrated with Dropbox and Google Drive to help you easily export you transcribed text to your various online accounts. Alternatively, your can send the dictated text to any email address. 12. TypingClub typingclub.com Master touch typing using this free game / educational program. This online program will assist you with learning and improving… Master touch typing using this free game / educational program. This online program will assist you with learning and improving your typing speed! Practice each lesson over and over to at least get all three stars. It really doesn't take much to learn touch typing, a few minutes a day for one to two weeks and you will be a pro! 13. Kaizena https://kaizena.com/ Save time on providing feedback with this great app! Kaizena allows teachers and students to provide feedback within the document and with voice comments. Think of it as voicemail, texting and tagging all in one place. 14. Powtoon www.powtoon.com Easily create animated videos and presentations. 15. Branching in google forms http://www.mousewhisperer.co.uk/drivebunny/conditional-branching-in-google- forms/ This option is available to all google forms users. This feature allows the user to create a different page depending on what answer a student may choose. For example, if you have a multiple choice test with answers A, B, C, D and a student chooses answer “B”, the form then goes to a different next question or page than if a student chooses answer “A” instead, and vice versa. This is a great tool for differentiation whereas a student answers a question incorrectly, for example, it could take them to a youtube review video. If a different student answers the question correctly, they would skip the video and resume to the next question. 16. EasyBib https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/easybib-bibliography- crea/dnhomniofbmbomomggjpkakilbbgfkhc?hl=en The easiest automatic bibliography citation generator is now on Google Docs! Format in MLA, APA, Harvard, and over 7K more styles! The Bibliography Creator by EasyBib allows you to easily create a bibliography for your research paper. Automatically cite books, journal articles, and websites just by entering in the titles or URLs. Format citations in MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard, and over 7K other styles. When you're finished creating your bibliography, click Generate Bibliography and we'll alphabetize your citations and add them to the end of your paper. 17. SAS Writing Reviser https://www.sascurriculumpathways.com This add-on provides students with feedback about their writing and enables them to address a range of potential writing problems, including weak verbs, excess prepositional phrases, dangling modifiers, and faulty sentence structure. By learning to ask questions experienced writers ask automatically, students begin to express themselves with greater precision and power. 18. Thesauras http://apps4gapps.com/ Thesaurus for Google Documents revolutionizes your experience by helping you explore synonyms, antonyms and more. Thesaurus for Google Documents revolutionizes your experience by helping you explore synonyms, antonyms and more. 19. Mind Meister www.mindmeister.com Create, edit and share mind maps online. Also works with Google Drive! The leading online mind mapping application, MindMeister allows your team to be more innovative by providing a shared collaboration and brainstorming environment on the web. Plan projects, manage meetings and sketch out business plans online with partners and colleagues, all in real time! 20. Page Monitor https://visualping.io/ This extension allows your browser to monitor changes to web pages for you. It can inform you whenever a particular page changes without you having to go and check every time. 21. Text Help Study Skills https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/texthelp-study- skills/fjgimeiehjeaammngbkmpmjikfpknmpf?hl=en Texthelp Highlighting Tools: Select, Highlight, and Group Content Together for Review and Learning. Use Texthelp’s Highlighting Tools to highlight key areas of your document to collect, group, and learn from later. Simply select and highlight the desired text and click “Collect Highlights” to extract it and place it in a new document (by color or location) for students or educators to review. Used by educators in the classroom to help students identify and group key facts together, indicate new words to learn, or collect research to assist with studying. Texthelp’s Highlighting Tools are great for all content and grade levels. 22. Avery Label Merge https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/avery-label- merge/onacejilpbdgdhhoijnggpjolbdajepo?hl=en-US Easily merge Google spreadsheet data into Avery address labels and name badges Creates a mail merge using a Google spreadsheet for merge data.