Three Great Text to Speech Tools for Teachers. June 14, 2014 Are you tired of reading texts ? Here are three great free Chrome extensions that you can use to have text read to you. All of these extensions are free and are easy to use. I started the list with Announcify which is my favourite among them all but the two other add-ons are pretty good as well. Try them out and share with us what you think of them. 1-Announcify Announcify is a Chrome extension that reads web pages to you. 2- Select and Speak Select and Speak is another great Chrome extension that allows you to select text from almost any website and have it read to you. 3- Speak It SpeakIt reads selected text using Text-to-Speech technology with language auto-detection.
10 Great Screen Capture Web Tools for Teachers and Students. January 24, 2014 Screen capture images can be used for a variety of reasons. You can include them in tutorials and multimedia classroom projects. You can also use them as illustrative visual aids when explaining a difficult concept or to visually highlight a process. There are several web based tools and extensions that you can use for this purpose.
Here is a list I compiled for you containing some of the best tools I have been using in my work as a blogger. 1- 1- LightShot This is a great screen capture extension that works on Chrome. 2- Web Page screen Capture This is a freeware software for taking screenshots . 3- Tech Smith Snagit The Snagit for Google Chrome™ Extension makes it possible for you to capture images within your Chrome browser. Awesome Screenshot lets you to Capture the whole page or any portion, annotate screenshot, blur sensitive info, one-click upload to share. 5- Screen Capture 6- Snaplr Snaplr is a simple way to capture and annotate your desktop's activity. 9- MonoSnop.
8 Great Search Extensions for Students. This is the fifth post in a series of posts devoted to reviewing educational Chrome extensions specifically curated for teachers and students. Check out this page to access the other lists we have shared before. Today's list features some interesting Chrome extensions useful for doing research.
I invite you to have a look and share with us if you have other titles to add to this list. 1- Evernote Web Clipper: This tool makes it simple to share and save any cool or useful websites you come across while browsing. 2- Session Buddy: If you’ve got to stop your research to go to class or meet friends, don’t start all over. Use this extension to simply save your entire Chrome session. 3- Diigo Web Highlighter and Bookmark: Try out this extension for some help when doing online research. 4-Google Similar Pages: Make it simple to find similar content on the web by using this extension. 5-Wikipedia: Using this extension, you’ll be able to more easily look for information on Wikipedia.
15 New Good Chrome Extensions for Students. Since I published the previous list of students Chrome extensions a few weeks ago, I received several emails from fellow teachers and educators suggesting more important extensions to add to the list. I have gone through all of these resources and I selected the ones below. I have personally tried all of these extensions and found them really worth sharing. Have a look 1- Docs, PDFSs, and PowerPoint Viewer Automatically previews pdfs, powerpoint presentations, and other documents in Google Docs Viewer. 2- Evernote Web Clipper Use the Evernote extension to save things you see on the web into your Evernote account. 3- Session Buddy View and save the state of all open browser tabs in the current or past browser sessions. 4- Snippy Snippy allows you to grab snippets of web pages, save them for future use and upload them to Google Docs. 5- Email This Page This extension adds an email button to the toolbar which allows you to email the page link using your default mail client or Gmail.
6 Must Have Google Drive Extensions for Teachers. Today while I was editing a shared document one of my colleagues sent me over Google Drive , it dawned on me to compile a list of some interesting extensions I am using on my Google Drive. Using these apps will make your Google Drive experience way better than you have ever imagined.
They will also increase your productivity and overall workflow. Needlesss to say that these extensions are only for Chrome browser. related: 10 Great Tools to Integrate with Your Google Docs Try them out and share with us what you think of them. 1- WatchDoc If you have shared some documents with others on Google Docs, before you had to go check whether anyone's modified them. 2- Save to Google drive This extension allow you to save web content directly to Google Drive through a browser action or context menu. Allows you to upload a pdf version of the current page to your Google Drive using the pdfcrowd service. 4- Google Drive Quick Search 5- Save Text to Google Drive.
Webpage Screenshot. Awesome Screenshot: Capture & Annotate. Screen Capture (by Google) Explain and Send Screenshots. Lightshot (screenshot tool)