In an earlier post I showed off a website that could allow students to take notes while watching a YouTube video. Well, eduCanon cranks this up a notch and allows you to create trackable quizzes based off of YouTube videos. That's right, students can take a quiz that is integrated into a YouTube video. Educators can create up-to 8 classes with student accounts that will show not only if they watched the video, but also how well they did on the quiz. Below you will see both a example and tutorial on how to create your own eduCanon.
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In the days of yore if one wanted to survey or gather info from people they would walk around a mall and ask questions. Now, we have Google Forms. Google Forms allows you or your students to create professional looking online fillable forms to take surveys, take quizzes, collect homework, and pretty much anything else you can think of. Watch the video below to see how easy it can be to create a Google Form and share it. The Save to Google Drive Chrome extension is a must for any Google Apps user or Chromebook user. This extension lets you save any website image straight to your Google Drive; or why just save the image, you can save the whole website as a image! Save to Google Drive is unbelievably easy to use. All you need to do is install the Save to Google extension, then you can right click a picture and select 'Save Image to Google Drive.' If you want to save an entire website, all one must do is click the Save to Google Drive extension and boom, the website is now copied to your Google Drive! How do you make a room full of students smile? Place the good old TV cart in the front of the room and students will rejoice for movie day. Well, time to move movie day into the 21st century using VideoNot.es. VideoNot.es allows students or yourself to watch a YouTube or Khan Academy video and take notes as the video plays. These notes can then be shared using Google Drive, that's right, this bad boy integrates with Google Drive! Imagine tellings students to check out the MinutePhysics YouTube channel. Each students could pick out one video that interests them and then take notes on it. Students could then share those notes with you, a fellow student, or even the entire class! Or let's flip this around. You could create your own YouTube video with classroom content or find one and takes notes on it to share with students. VideoNot.es in the end allows you to take something as impersonal as watching a movie and create student involvement. So involve your students and rock out a awesome Video.Not.es project today! This is one extension that you don't realize how awesome it is until you use it! Announcify is the perfect extension for students with reading disabilities, attention issues, or students reading above their grade level. Announcify will strip out all the ads from a webpage and then read the information to the student! Want to see it in action? Check out the brief demo below. Often while browsing the 'interwebs,' as my Grandmother would call, it we come across a website that is just plain old awesome; yet as we try to find something similar to hit, we hit a stumbling block and fail. Well, no more of that because the Google Similar Page Extension is here to save the day! Using the Google Similar Page Extension yourself and students can find websites similar to the one they are on quickly and efficiently. The bonus part is when you select a similar page, it will open in a new tab which preserves the site you were originally on and allows you to go back to the direct search. Watch the brief tutorial below to see this bad boy in action! Have you ever read a news article and found a word that you had absolutely know idea what it means or even how to save it? Well, do I have an extension for you! Google Dictionary will define any word you double-click and for many words it will even speak the word to you! Just imagine, you can assign students a bunch of news articles or research topics, and using this extension, students can conquer words above their reading levels! This extension is a must have for all teachers and students alike. Check out the brief tutorial on Google Dictionary below. Awesome Screenshot takes the normal screenshot function and cranks it up 10 notches! Awesome Screenshot allows you to take a screenshot and mark it up in a variety of ways to help students understand what they should be doing, or allow for a student to communicate to you what they found on a website.
One of the best features of Awesome Screenshot is that it integrates with Google Drive! This means that you can save all your screenshots to Google Drive to easily share with students, or students to easily share with you using their Google Apps account. OneTab is a Chrome Extension that can make your life 150% easier! OneTab allows you to share multiple links with students quickly and easily. You can provide multiple websites to students for research, projects, daily activities, or what ever else by just giving them one link. You can watch the tutorial above to see OneTab in action!
The PicMonkey Extension is one of those extensions you didn't know you needed until you use it. The PicMonkey Extension allows you to take any image from a webpage and edit it using PicMonkey.com. When you click the extension, it shows you all the pictures available, then when you select one, it automatically opens in PicMonkey.com. After editing you can save it to your local computer or upload it to Dropbox.
This can be handy to create information, images, tutorials, picture labels, classroom posters, and so much more! You could also challenge students to find images that fit a particular question, book, theme, or mathematical equation and then explain how it fits within the picture. |
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