{"id":2159,"date":"2018-08-20T13:25:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T13:25:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-07T12:36:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T12:36:37","slug":"approved-chrome-extensions-for-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dearbornschools.org\/technologyblog\/resources\/approved-chrome-extensions-for-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Approved Chrome Extensions for Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

Approved for Students already (staff can install any extension):<\/h2>\n

Alice Keeler SlideShot<\/a> –<\/h3>\n
SlideShot creates a screenshot every minute and saves the image in Google Drive. Choosing finish, the screenshots automatically are imported into a Google Slides presentation. \nOne screenshot per slide. Slides presentation can be found in the Google Drive SlideShot folder. Suggestion to use the \"Recent\" filter in Drive to locate quickly.\n\nStudents are able to use this Chrome extension to create a presentation of their work while utilizing web tools. Each slide has room for students to add a text box to explain their thinking and learning. \nGoogle Classroom users: Students can choose \"Add\" to add the Slides presentation from Google Drive to their assignment.\n\nSpecial thanks to Wanda Terral for her support in developing these Chrome extensions.<\/pre>\n
Bookshare Web Reader<\/a><\/h3>\n
Calculator<\/h3>\n
Camera<\/h3>\n
ChromeVox<\/h3>\n
ClapMotion<\/a><\/h3>\n
A simple tool for creating stop motion animation sequences using a webcam.\n\nAnimation sequences can be saved to a video file in the widely-supported webm format.  Previously-saved videos can be loaded into the app and extended.\n\nNew in version 0.11: by popular request, you can now add a soundtrack to your animation.\n\nThis is a free, open-source, non-commercial app.  It does not collect any information, and it does not connect to the internet at all.<\/pre>\n
Clever<\/h3>\n
Co:Writer Universal (Chrome App)<\/h3>\n
Co:Writer Universal (Extension)<\/a><\/h3>\n
Co:Writer\u00ae Universal Extension for Chrome\u2122 helps you write with proper grammar and spelling using topic-specific vocabulary. It integrates with the Chrome\u2122 browser for word prediction and speech recognition just about anywhere you write online including Google Drive\u2122, Microsoft Word, blogs, Learning Management Systems, testing, social networks, and email.\n\nTry it for free and see if it works for you. Pricing and more information can be viewed at https:\/\/cowriter.com \n\nHow Does Co:Writer Work?\nAs letters are typed, Co:Writer predicts the intended word with a selection of word suggestions using powerful grammar-smart word prediction. These suggestions can be read aloud by moving the cursor over the words. Selecting the intended word places it into the built-in writing document. For feedback while writing (and after writing) built-in text to speech can be used to read letters, words, sentences, and any selected text.  If the microphone is chosen, you can speak and we'll convert your speech into text.  \n\n4+ Million Topic-Specific Dictionaries:\nCo:Writer has access to a main prediction dictionary (that includes core words) and Topic Dictionaries (that includes topic specific words).  Co:Writer can access over 4 million topic-specific dictionaries which are activated based on the writing task.\n\nA small sampling of the variety of topic dictionaries:\n  \u2714 America's Cup\n  \u2714 Compare and Contrast\n  \u2714 Dinosaurs\n  \u2714 Grumpy Cat\n  \u2714 History of the Peloponnesian War\n  \u2714 Mahatma Gandhi\n  \u2714 My Dog\n  \u2714 Pig Latin\n  \u2714 SpongeBob SquarePants\n  \u2714 Tommy (album)\n  \u2714 Wonders of the World\n\nSpelling Support:\nCo:Writer uses Flexspell\u2122 technology to handle the widest range of spelling mistakes including phonetic spelling and inventive spelling errors (letter omissions, word ending omissions, letter reversals, etc).\n\nExamples of how Co:Writer aides with phonetic and\/or inventive spelling:\n\nBefore Co:Writer:\nThe blk jargon flu over the bra lfnt. \nR u hpy to ce me? \nI no hw to nor the fone. \n\nAfter Co:Writer:\nThe black dragon flew over the gray elephant.\nAre you happy to see me?\nI know how to answer the phone.\n\nGrammar Support:\nCo:Writer bases its prediction on proper grammar, and uses its understanding of grammar to accurately predict words within the framework of valid sentence structures.  \nExamples of how Co:Writer aides with grammar:\nDogs are furry. (noun, verb, adj.) - When you typed d-o, you get plural noun choices\nThree very mangy dogs ran down the street. (adj., adv., adj., noun, verb\u2026 etc.) - After typing three, very, mangy, you get plural noun choices, then you get plural verb tenses.<\/pre>\n
Gmail<\/h3>\n
Google Calendar<\/h3>\n
Google Classroom<\/h3>\n
Google Docs<\/h3>\n
Google Docs Offline<\/h3>\n
Google Drawings<\/h3>\n
Google Drive<\/h3>\n
Google Forms<\/h3>\n
Google Keep<\/h3>\n
Google Read&Write<\/h3>\n
Google Sheets<\/h3>\n
Google Slides<\/h3>\n
Grammarly<\/a><\/h3>\n
Grammarly will make sure your messages, documents, and social media posts are clear, mistake-free, and impactful. Adding Grammarly to Chrome means that your spelling and grammar will be vetted on Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Tumblr, and nearly everywhere else you write on the web. Once you register your new account, you will start to receive weekly emails with personalized insights and performance stats (one of our most popular new features). Working on a large project, an essay, or a blog post? No sweat. You can create and store all of your documents in your new online editor.\n\n\u2605 Contextual spelling checker\nGrammarly detects correctly spelled words used in the wrong context. You can stop worrying about misusing homophones like lose\/loose, affect\/effect, lie\/lay, there\/their\/they\u2019re, and many other commonly confused words.\n\n\u2605 Grammar checker\nGrammarly can fix hundreds of complex grammatical errors, including subject-verb agreement, article use, and modifier placement, to name just a few.\n\n\u2605 Trusted by millions of users\nGrammarly is trusted by students, writers, business professionals, bloggers, and plenty of people who just want to write better. Grammarly adapts to your needs and writing style, giving you the confidence of mistake-free communication every time you write.\n\n\u2605 Grammarly in the news\nForbes: \u201cGrammarly quickly and easily makes your writing better and makes you sound like a pro, or at least helps you avoid looking like a fool.\u201d\nHarvard Business Review: \u201c...good grammar is instrumental in conveying ideas with clarity, professionalism, and precision...Good grammar is simply good business.\u201d\nABC News: \u201cPoor grammar is just as offensive as gross pick-up lines.\u201d\n\n\u2605 Grammarly Premium\nIf you want to supercharge your writing performance and leave no error unchecked, Grammarly Premium is your answer. Here\u2019s what you can do with Premium:\n  \u27a4 Check for over a hundred additional types of errors\n  \u27a4 Get vocabulary enhancement suggestions\n  \u27a4 Detect plagiarism and get citation suggestions\n  \u27a4 Get suggestions for different writing styles, including academic, technical, and creative\n<\/pre>\n
HiveSchool – Student<\/h3>\n
Currently deprecated. We are working on getting this updated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Save to Google Drive<\/h3>\n
ScanQR<\/a><\/h3>\n
Scans QR codes and displays their contents on a Chromebook or other computer with a suitable webcam.\nIt's one that can focus the QR code within the red square in the app sharply enough that the app can decode it.<\/pre>\n
Screencastify<\/a><\/h3>\n
Screencastify is Chrome's most trusted screen recorder.\n\n\u2714 Millions and millions of weekly users\n\u2714 2.2 million hours recorded in 2017\n\u2714 #1 most installed Chrome screen recorder \n\n\ud83c\udfa5 Record\n\u25b8 Desktop, browser tab or webcam capture\n\u25b8 Narrate with your microphone\u2019s audio\n\u25b8 Customize your resolution and FPS\n\u25b8 Embed your webcam into the screencast\n\n\u2704 Edit \n\u25b8 Annotate your screen with a pen tool\n\u25b8 Focus a spotlight on your mouse\n\u25b8 Crop your recording (Premium)\n\u25b8 Trim your recording (Premium)\n\n\ud83d\ude80 Share\n\u25b8 Videos automatically save to Google Drive\n\u25b8 Publish directly to YouTube\n\u25b8 Save and manage videos locally\n\u25b8 Export as .mp4 or animated gif (Premium)\n\n-------------------------------------------\n\n\u272a LITE VERSION (FREE FOREVER) \u272a\n\u25b8 10 minute recording limit per video\n\u25b8 50 videos per month\n\u25b8 Screencastify watermark\n\n\n-------------------------------------------\n\nHow do people use Screencastify for screen recording and capture?\n\n\ud83c\udf93 Education:\n\u25b8 Strong enough for universities, safe enough for kindergarteners\n\u25b8 CommonSense.org Top Pick\n\u25b8 Teachers save time, increase effectiveness\n\u25b8 Perfect for flipped classrooms\n\u25b8 Enable more 1:1 feedback\n\u25b8 Language, public speaking, comprehension practice\n\u25b8 Designed for Chromebooks\n\u25b8 Google Suite, Google Apps For Education and Google Classroom ready\n\n-------------------------------------------\n\n\ud83d\udcdd Specs:\n\u25b8 Screencasts are captured as webm\/vp8 files with ogg vorbis audio\n\u25b8 Videos can be saved to your local disk as various file types (GIF, MP4, etc), directly to your Google Drive, published to Youtube, or you can share the link virtually anywhere\n\u25b8 Screencastify does not depend on any external software (like Java, Flash or other plugins) so it runs on Chrome OS, Chromebooks, and Chromeboxes\n\u25b8 Screen recording is a CPU intensive task. Older or weaker computers may lag if multiple programs and tabs are open at the same time as a screencast<\/pre>\n
Seasaw: The Learning Journal<\/h3>\n
Please check out Mahara (ePortfolios) as well.<\/p>\n
SketchUp for Schools<\/h3>\n
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SketchUp in a browser for Primary and Secondary Schools signed up with G Suite for Education.<\/pre>\n
Trimble's SketchUp for Schools is the core SketchUp modeler now available in a web browser for any Primary and Secondary School signed up with G Suite for Education. You can use SketchUp on any device with mouse & keyboard input and access to internet. You can make anything you can imagine, from anywhere, anytime you imagine it.<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
Snap&Read Universal<\/a><\/h3>\n
Text reader (TTS) that simplifies vocabulary, translates text, reads inaccessible text (OCR) and captures and cites sources.<\/div>\n
Snap&Read Extension for Chrome\u2122 reads both accessible and inaccessible text aloud from websites, Flash websites, images, Google Docs, eBook Readers, Kindle Cloud Reader, email, PDFs, web-based tests, and more. \nSnap&Read also adjusts complex text to be more readable, translates text into over 100 languages, and allows you to capture information and cite your sources for use in writings.\n\nTry it for free and see if it works for you.  Pricing and more information can be viewed at https:\/\/snapandread.com\n\nQuestions\/Help can be found at https:\/\/help.donjohnston.net\n\nIf you already have an account for snap and read, you can manage it at https:\/\/snapandread.com\n\nReleases:\n- New: \"Show Readability in Icon\" feature shows the grade level of the site you're on in Snap&Read's icon \n(The equation is the rounded average of Flesh-Kincaid, Gunning FOG, SMOG Index, Coleman-Liau Index, and the Automated Readability Index.)<\/em>  \n- \"Online\" high quality voices\n- Moved MLA citations from 7th to 8th edition\n- Updates to APA and Chicago citations\n- Outline Templates\n- Print\/Download added\n- Material Design UI overhaul\n- New PDF reader\n- Added support for Office 365 login\n- Opened up access to individuals, parents, and individual educators\n- Outlines:  Use the right pane in Snap&Read to highlight text and organize it in an outline.  We'll automatically cite your sources for you and support MLA, APA and Chicago formats.  If you need to write, just drag and drop items from your outline into your text field, email, Google Docs and more.\n-  Snap&Read now supports Bookshare's Web Reader \n-  We've added translation support for over 100 languages.\n-  Snap&Read now supports the Kindle Cloud Reader.  Read all your Kindle books (and textbooks) with Snap&Read.  One of our favorite features is that both tools work offline so even when you aren't online (perhaps on a bus, on a plane, or even better... at the beach) you can still read.<\/pre>\n
TextHelp PDF Reader<\/a><\/h3>\n
Experience PDFs in a whole new way with Texthelp\u2019s new PDF Reader.\n\nBuilt from the ground up and part of Read&Write for Google Chrome's suite of literacy tools, Texthelp\u2019s new PDF Reader provides a lightning fast experience for anyone looking for an exceptional PDF viewer. \nAnd with added access to Read&Write\u2019s many premium literacy tools, it\u2019s the perfect PDF solution to support a wide range of learners using G Suite for Education.\n\nNow introducing powerful collaboration tools to take your PDF experience to the next level.  \n\n\u2022 Collaborate in realtime on PDFs shared in Google Drive\n\u2022 Integrated with Equatio Chrome extension*\n\u2022 Add and reply to text comments (just like in Google Docs!) \n\u2022 Add images and links*\n\u2022 Leave audio comments using only your voice*\n\n\nOpen PDFs in Google Drive, the web, or your local device, then use the Read&Write tools you know and love to do things like:\n\n\u2022 Read text aloud\n\u2022 Look up words in the Dictionary and Picture Dictionary*\n\u2022 Translate words\n\u2022 Add text annotations using Word Prediction and Dictation*\n\u2022 Highlight text*\n\u2022 Build vocabulary lists*\n\u2022 And more!\n\nTry Texthelp\u2019s new PDF Reader free for 30 days, with unlimited access to all features. After this time Premium features* require a subscription to Read&Write for Google Chrome.\n<\/pre>\n
Vernier Graphical Analysis<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Graphical Analysis\u2122 4 is a tool for science students to collect, graph, and analyze data from Vernier sensors.\n\nSensor data-collection support:\n\u2022 Vernier Go Direct\u00ae sensors - with Bluetooth\u00ae wireless technology and USB connectivity\n\u2022 Vernier Go Wireless\u00ae Heart Rate and Go Wireless Exercise Heart Rate monitors\n\u2022 Vernier LabQuest\u00ae sensors used with LabQuest 2, LabQuest Stream, LabQuest Mini, or Go!Link\u00ae interfaces\n\u2022 Vernier Go!Temp\u00ae and Go!Motion\u00ae USB sensors\n\nAdditional experiment options:\n\u2022 Data Sharing via Wi-Fi connection to LabQuest 2 or Logger Pro\u00ae 3\n\u2022 Manual Entry\n\nNote: Sensor data collection and Data Sharing require the purchase of hardware from Vernier Software & Technology. Manual entry of data can be performed without a hardware purchase. \nFor more information on Data Sharing, visit https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/css \n\nKey Features - Data Collection\n\u2022 Multi-sensor data-collection support\n\u2022 Time Based, Event Based, Drop Counting, and Photogate data-collection modes\n\u2022 Configurable data-collection rate and duration for time-based data collection\n\u2022 Optional triggering of time-based data collection based on sensor value\n\u2022 Customizable unit display on supported sensors\n\u2022 Sensor calibrations\n\u2022 Option to zero and reverse sensor readings\n\u2022 Graph match feature for use with motion detectors\n\u2022 Manual entry of data from keyboard and clipboard\n\nKey Features - Data Analysis\n\u2022 Display one, two, or three graphs simultaneously\n\u2022 View data in a table or show a graph and table side-by-side\n\u2022 Draw Predictions on a graph to uncover misconceptions\n\u2022 Examine, interpolate\/extrapolate, and select data\n\u2022 Use Tangent tool to show instantaneous rates of change of the data\n\u2022 Find area under a curve using the Integral tool\n\u2022 Apply Statistics calculations to find mean, min, max, and standard deviation\n\u2022 Perform curve fits, including linear, quadratic, natural exponent, and more\n\u2022 Add calculated columns based on existing data to linearize data or investigate related concepts\n\nKey Features - Collaboration and Sharing\n\u2022 Create text annotations and add graph titles\n\u2022 Export graphs and data for printing and inclusion in lab reports\n\u2022 Save files (.ambl file format) to the Cloud for exchange with Graphical Analysis 4 on other Chromebooks\u2122, Windows\u00ae and macOS\u00ae computers, and iOS and Android\u2122 devices\n\u2022 Export data in .CSV format for analysis of data in spreadsheet software such as Excel, Google Sheets, and Numbers\n\u2022 Adjust font sizes for easier viewing when presenting to your class\n\nVernier Software & Technology has over 35 years of experience in providing effective learning resources for understanding experimental data in science and math classrooms. Graphical Analysis 4 is a part of the extensive system of sensors, interfaces, and data-collection software from Vernier for science and STEM education.<\/pre>\n
WeDo 2.0 LEGO\u00ae Education<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The LEGO\u00ae Education WeDo 2.0 App allows students to explore great science projects.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Only compatible with Chromebooks!\n\nWeDo 2.0 makes coding a reality for elementary students. Using LEGO\u00ae bricks, easy-to-use software and engaging STEM projects, teachers have all they need to teach their students simple programming skills.\n\nThis unique combination of building with LEGO\u00ae bricks, and then using an easy-to-use classroom app to make WeDo 2.0 come to life through engaging lesson plans for science, technology, engineering and math classes, provides you with everything you need to teach programming in your classroom.<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
YouTube<\/h3>\n
Something Missing? Suggestion?<\/h2>\n
If you are a Staff member and would like to suggest an additional extension<\/a>, please let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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