10 Useful Chrome Extensions

Chrome extensions can save you time and make you more productive during your day.  But with an endless number available, which ones should you use?  Here are 10 of my favorite extensions for Chrome.

Socrative: My Goto For Informal Assessments

Informal assessments are one of the things I use chromebooks in my classroom for.  And Socrative is the one I use the most.  I started using Socrative about a year ago and found it to be very user friendly and it worked on all internet capable devices (phones, chromebooks, etc.).  With the additional feature of adding images, Socrative has become extremely useful to me in my math classroom.  The presentation below is a quick guide to creating an account and how to initiate quick questions.  I plan on putting together an more advanced tutorial in the future.




Link to the Google Document of the tutorial.  Feel free to make a copy.  Thanks.
http://goo.gl/P4msas

Tab Switching on Touchpad For Chromebooks

(Chromebook)  While studying for the Google Educator test I learned a quick way to switch between tabs using the touchpad on a chromebook.

Place 3 FINGERS on the touchpad and swipe left or right.  That will highlight the tab you would like to switch to without clicking.  A huge time saver for myself.

Screenshot on a Chromebook

Here is real easy way to take a screenshot on a Chromebook without having to install an extension.

Press "ctrl + shift + Switch to Next Window Key."  This will pull up a set of crosshairs that you can use to select a region of the screen for your screenshot.  The screenshot is then temporarily saved into your "Downloads" folder.  Just remember that if you log off or shut down the Chromebook all of your downloads are deleted.