Beautiful Editor is almost Audacity for Chromebooks. Source: Beautiful Audio Editor I hope you like green gradients, because Beautiful Audio Editor is a full feature audio editor that runs in the browser. Students can record directly in to the editor, copy/paste or duplicate audio. Final projects can be exported as mp3 and wav. There is a browser limitation…
Another option to quiet Youtube – DF Tube, Distraction Free for YouTube. Source: DF Tube (Distraction Free for YouTube™) – Chrome Web Store There are several ways to cut out all of the extra cruft that YouTube puts up, and here is another. Once installed, DF Tube is a Chrome extension that gives you the ability to…
See how productive you are in Chrome with the RescueTime extension. Source: RescueTime for Chrome and Chrome OS – Chrome Web Store RescueTime is a Chrome extension that will automatically track how long you use different websites. It categorizes the websites, so you can see how much time you spend in Google Docs vs time on…
Preceden – A free for students timeline creator. Source: Preceden Timeline Maker: Create a Professional Timeline in Minutes There are probably as many different ways to create a timeline as there are to create a presentation. The free version is limited to 10 events on the timeline, but that is probably still enough for most…
Source: Ghostery – Privacy Ad Blocker – Chrome Web Store The tracking of you across the web is getting worse, but there are extensions that can help you with that. Ghostery is one such add-on for Google Chrome. Once installed, it goes to work. As I was testing Ghostery, I came across sites that had 20-30…
Revisiting Slides (not Google Slides, but slides.com). Source: Slides – Create and share presentations online Slides is an online application that can be used to create presentation. Options are always good, and if students are getting bored with Google Slides, maybe they could try Slides. Students can create a free account using their Google login. In the free…
Easily type emojis in Chrome with this addon. Source: Emoji Keyboard by EmojiOne™ – Chrome Web Store Add this as another way to type emojis when using Google Chrome. To use the add-on, click on its icon in the toolbar. From there, you can search or click on the different emojis to use. When you’re…
Source: Flag Stories This site is hard to explain. Ferdio breaks down all of the worlds’ flags and aggregates various aspects of each flag. For example, there is a graphic showing the relative popularity of each color of the various flags.
This interactive incorporates engaging 3D-models of viruses that students can click on to rotate and view from different angles. In the process they will learn about the criteria that scientists use to classify viruses, the characteristics of different viruses, and the global prevalence of viral infections. A link to an illustration of the relative sizes…
Though YouTube remains the premier video site on the web, you probably don’t think much about customizing it. But whether you’re a casual user or watch online videos every day, there are all sorts of ways to tweak YouTube. A major category of these are special YouTube URLs. Let’s look at some YouTube URL…