Source: Prism – Visual Bookmarks I’m always looking for ways to share collections of bookmarks, and Prism is a good looking way to do that. The site reminds me a lot of Pinterest. You can share boards, and invite collaborators to a board. The site saves an autoupdating thumbnail of the website, which is a…
Source: Penguin Classics Cover Generator After your students write the next great American novel, the next step is to create a cover. The Penguin Classics Cover Generator is a tool you can use to get that cover. For my example above, I grabbed a picture from Unsplash and uploaded to the Penguin Classics Cover Generator….
Source: Emoji Keyboard by JoyPixels™ – Chrome Web Store Who doesn’t like emojis? 🌏😫😒 The Emoji Keyboard provides a drop down menu from the toolbar allowing you to search and select emojis. When done, they are automatically placed in the clipboard so you can paste them in your writing. Shift-Alt-E will also bring up the…
Source: Sir Links-a-Lot – Chrome Web Store Here’s a neat extension with an even better name. After adding Sir Links-a-Lot to Google Chrome, you can easily create links for Google Docs/Sheets/Slides documents for others to preview or copy. I’ve written before on how to modify the address of a Google Docs/Sheets/Slides document, Sir Links-a-Lot is…
Checker Plus for Gmail™ – is my new favorite Chrome extension! At first, the power of Checker Plus for Gmail™ – is understated. Sure, there is a new icon of an envelope in the toolbar, and when you receive an email, the icon changes to show the number of unread messages. That’s all fine and…
Source: Create Link – Chrome Web Store I thought that I shared the Create Link extension before, but I guess I haven’t! This is one of my favorite extensions, and one that I use frequently. The Create Link extension does one thing, and that is copy the title and address of the webpage to the…
Source: Share to Classroom – Chrome Web Store It’s been over four years since I introduced the Share to Classroom Google Chrome extension, so I figured it’s time to revisit! Once installed, the Share to Classroom allows you to push a website out to students or create classwork in Google Classroom from the current website….
Project Naptha automatically applies state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms on every image you see while browsing the web. The result is a seamless and intuitive experience, where you can highlight as well as copy and paste and even edit and translate the text formerly trapped within an image. Source: Project Naptha – Chrome Web Store You…