Quickly open a word definition with the Google Dictionary Chrome Extension

Quickly open a word definition with the Google Dictionary Chrome Extension

Quickly open a word definition with the Google Dictionary Chrome Extension. Google Dictionary (by Google) – Chrome Web Store Once installed, a pop up will now show when words are selected on a web page. Along with the definition is a speaker icon which will read the word out loud for the student. This would…

Performing a Google search, reading at college, and 10 more weeks comic – Top 3 of the week

Performing a Google search, reading at college, and 10 more weeks comic – Top 3 of the week

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How rudeness can affect your day

How rudeness can affect your day

We posit that a single exposure to rudeness in the morning can contaminate employees’ perceptions of subsequent social interactions leading them to perceive greater workplace rudeness throughout their workday. We expect that these contaminated perceptions will have important ramifications for employees’ work behaviors. Source: PsycNET Record Display – PsycNET Think about that student that comes to…

Use the Send from Gmail Google Chrome Extension to share the current page through email

Use the Send from Gmail Google Chrome Extension to share the current page through email

Use the Send from Gmail Google Chrome Extension to share the current page through email. Source: Send from Gmail (by Google) – Chrome Web Store Sending a link to the current page would seem to be a very useful feature, but it’s not built in to Google Chrome. That’s where the Send from Gmail extension comes in. Once…

A story on the difficulties university students face when reading more than 200 words at a time

A story on the difficulties university students face when reading more than 200 words at a time

I’d suggest that happiness for students might arise from challenge, from hard work fairly rewarded, or from the acquisition of new skills. But there is of course a quicker route: you keep students happy by not failing them. And then – surprise! – when they graduate they are not literate, or numerate, or knowledgeable enough…

Drag words to the address bar or new tab button to perform a Google search

Drag words to the address bar or new tab button to perform a Google search

Now here’s something I just learned. After highlighting words on a web page, you can drag the highlighted words to the tab bar and Chrome will perform a Google search. The same thing happens when you drag the highlighted words to the url bar. This requires a little more effort than right-clicking on the highlighted…