I have spent a fair amount of time mastering technology skills that are not necessarily related to education, but I figured I'd share what I already know as much of it improves the general internet users quality of life.
This blog will focus on internet browser extensions, specifically for Google Chrome though many (or their equivalents) can be found for the other browsers.
HoverZoom
The best Chrome extension ever. All those pictures that constantly need to be opened? Now you can just hover over the link or thumbnail with your cursor and the image pops up to full size on your screen.
YouTube Options
For the internet user who uses YouTube for a variety of things, including showing videos to students, this extension offers a broad variety of options such as disabling comments, disabling autoplay, and in general disabling a bunch of other annoying aspects of YouTube as well as other customization options.
Readability
This extension lets you reformat online articles and other things in a much simpler format as well as letting you save them for reading at a further date. This one I have used for teaching, as it is a great first step to take when preparing an online article for students.
Sweet. All of these can be use in the classroom. That could be to sell it is to tell them any other way they can use it for class, but model the educational to them anyway. They might use it in a way to help them in school
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ReplyDeleteI love Readability! If you are an Evernote user (or even if you're not), Evernote Clearly does a similar thing and also allows for you to highlight your article and save to Evernote. I'll definitely check out HoverZoom. Thanks.
jeff
Thanks for posting some useful tools. Readability is definitely one of my favorites. I have an archive of at least a couple hundred articles
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