Chromebook Basics
Activity One: Getting Started
Getting Started with your Chromebook
Hey! I have a Chromebook!
What Can You Create on a Chromebook?
Chromebook 101 ThingLink
Choose Your Own Adventure
Hey! I have a Chromebook!
What Can You Create on a Chromebook?
Chromebook 101 ThingLink
Choose Your Own Adventure
Activity Two: Chrome Apps and Extension Part One
Activity Two: Chrome Extensions
Chrome Extensions are small programs that add new features to your browser and personalize your browsing experience. Unlike apps, they’re always available, no matter what website you’re on. By using extensions, you can customize Google Chrome with features you like, while keeping your browser free of things that you don't use. By using Chrome extensions students can make the process of finding, organizing, and citing information a million times easier. Teachers can use these extensions for teaching to all learning modalities.
Chrome Extensions are small programs that add new features to your browser and personalize your browsing experience. Unlike apps, they’re always available, no matter what website you’re on. By using extensions, you can customize Google Chrome with features you like, while keeping your browser free of things that you don't use. By using Chrome extensions students can make the process of finding, organizing, and citing information a million times easier. Teachers can use these extensions for teaching to all learning modalities.
- Chrome Web Store
- Training for Google Apps This will show up in all of your apps after you install the extension.
- Turn Off the Lights: Use to dim the lights around your video.
- goo.gl (Google URL Shortner) Shorten the page URL with this extension.
- Clearly: Clear all the clutter like links, videos, animations and more from the article you are trying to read with this extension.
- Email This Page: Email the link, title, and a selection of text on the web page you’re currently on with the click of this extension.
- Explain and Send Screenshot: Screenshot and annotate the web with this extension. Download and save options available.
- OneTab: Whenever you find yourself with too many tabs, click the OneTab icon to convert all of your tabs into a list.
- Cite this for me: Automatically create website citations in the APA, MLA, Chicago or Harvard referencing styles at the click of a button.
- Announcify: reads out loud every website you want and blurs text that is not being read.
- Print Friendly and PDF: Edit the webpage to delete specific text and image to then save them as PDF and print.
- Wolfram Alfa: Instantly query Wolfram|Alpha from any page or tab.
- Google Translate: View translations easily as you browse the web. By the Google Translate team.
- Screencastify: Screencastify is a simple video screen capture software for Chrome.
Activity Three: Student Use of Chromebooks
Activity Four: Google Drive Part One
Google Doc-Google Drive! One and the same: Google Drive formally called Google Docs lets you store and access your files on the web, on your hard drive, or on the go. Google Drive lets you share and store all your files and folders, documents, videos and any other file type that you want to store and share. In addition you can sync, store and access your files anywhere on any device. Challenge One-Trophic Cascades
Challenge Two-How Wolves Change Rivers
Check out these additional resources for Google Drive at the GCF Learn Free Website.
Challenge Two-How Wolves Change Rivers
Check out these additional resources for Google Drive at the GCF Learn Free Website.
