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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: 15 Wonderful Chrome Extensions for Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: 15 Wonderful Chrome Extensions for Students
1- Docs Quickly Create a Google Doc, Spreadsheet, Presentation, or Drawing directly from your Chrome bar. No need to launch docs.google.com; just a single click, and you have a new document. 2- Save as PDF This extension lets you easily save web pages to pdf. It uses html to pdf online service. 3- Evernote Web Clipper Use the Evernote extension to save things you see on the web into your Evernote account. 4- Write Space Write Space is a customizable full-screen text-editor that lives in your web-browser. 5- Easy Bib Tools Automatically cite web sites with one click using the EasyBib Toolbar. 6- Todo.ly Todo.ly is an intuitive and easy to use online Todo list, and Task Manager. If you have shared some documents with others on Google Docs, before you had to go check whether anyone's modified them. Easily share and save your attachments. 9- Send to Google Drive Allows you to upload a pdf version of the current page to your Google Drive using the pdfcrowd service.

70+ Web Tools Organized For Bloom's Digital Taxonomy The number of web tools currently available to teachers, administrators, and students is downright absurd. You can’t swing an iPad without hitting a free web tool looking to revolutionize your classroom. Luckily, there are a few brave souls out in the world wide web attempting to organize the chaos a bit. We like to take our best shot here at Edudemic but also like to showcase some of the great organizing done by others. The web tools are all listed (and clickable!) NOTE: You can click on any of the web tools listed in the presentation to go to their respective website. Source of top image: Wikispaces

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5 Tools Students Can Use to Create Alternative Book Reports This afternoon someone emailed me asking for some suggestions for tools for creating book trailer videos. It has been two years since I last wrote about the topic so I created a new list of tools for creating book trailers. Book trailers are short videos designed to spark a viewer's interest in a book. Having students create book trailers is an excellent alternative to traditional book report projects. A great place to find examples of book trailers is Book Trailers for Readers . Animoto makes it possible to quickly create a video using still images, music, video clips, and text. WeVideo is a collaborative online video creation tool. Pixntell is an iPad app for quickly creating simple narrated photostories. Narrable is a neat service for creating short narrated slideshows.

The 4 Essential Organization Apps For Your Classroom—And Tons of Ideas For Using Them Mobile Learning | Feature The 4 Essential Organization Apps For Your Classroom—And Tons of Ideas For Using Them By Michelle Cheasty 05/28/13 As we move deeper into the digital world, it becomes increasingly critical that we utilize the technology at our fingertips to get (and stay) organized. Evernote Evernote is an online notebook that allows you to sync notes among various devices. As you begin to get organized with Evernote, you'll start by creating notebooks, which are basically a repository of your individual notes on a given topic or theme. So how do I use this in my classroom? As educators, we have all been asked to provide a copy of our notes for students from time to time. Dropbox Dropbox is a web-based storage service that allows users to share files and folders among multiple mobile devices. Even with the free version, users can “earn” more space by completing tasks such as an introduction tutorial and tweeting about Dropbox. So how do I use this in my classroom?

40 Sites and Apps for Creating Presentations Creating a presentation or slideshow is one of the staples of any 21st Century Classroom. This is a skill that almost every educator has and is a must known skill for any successful student. It used to be that only programs such as PowerPoint could create presentations. *This list is in alphabetical order.40 Sites & Apps for Creating Presentations 9Slides - A wonderful site and app for adding video/audio narration to a presentation. The Principal of Change | Stories of learning and leading

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