Tag: Chrome extension

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Immersive Reader, Chrome Extension Must-Have

Immersive Reader is a must-have Chrome extension that once installed to your Chrome browser will give your students the ability to have web content read to them. Students would highlight content, right-click and select ‘help me read this’. Your screen is transformed to the Immersive Reader format. Simply click the play button at the bottom of the screen and follow along as the text is read to you. Settings for speed, showing parts of speech, syllables, and line focus are also available. And more thing… you can have the text translated and have a picture dictionary option for the words. What a great tool for ESOL learners as well. A screenshot is posted below.

Immersive Reader format once text is selected on a website.

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TellyPrompt – Chrome Extension

This free Chrome extension is a breeze to use. You don’t need a fancy teleprompter box. Just use your device with the Chrome web browser and TellyPrompt extension and you are in business. It’s so simple. Type or paste text into the editor window and then click “Start Presenting”. Check out the features below.

Features:
– Full-screen display for minimal distraction to talent
– Adjust scroll speed in real-time
– Designed for single-monitor and dual-monitor setups
– Adjust font size, color, and direction
– Change background color and horizontal text margins on display
– Block mouse wheel from accidentally scrolling text while running
– Mirror horizontal, vertical, both, or none
– Multi-monitor support with presenter view

You can download it free from the Chrome Web Store.

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Split Screen Layouts/Tab Layouts for Chrome

Have you ever had a need to view more than one screen on your display?

With the extension Split Screen Layouts/Tab Layouts for Chrome, you can easily split the browser screen into separate tabs and work simultaneously in multiple windows.  Who says you need dual monitors?  Customize layouts to suit your needs and create your own keyboard shortcuts for layouts you prefer and use most often.

Go to the Chrome Webstore and search Split Screen to add the extension to your web browser.
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Insert Learning Supercharges Schoology

This Chrome extension is a must have tool for teachers and students for online studies. Insert Learning add new levels of interactivity to Schoology pages.  No need to reinvent the wheel when you can assess students through questioning within their readings and engage discussions right from the online source. Highlighting and sticky notes are also provided.

View the short video (3:41) below for a glimpse of Insert Learning at work. I’m confident you will be amazed at what this free Chrome extension offers.

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Get on the Same Page With Google Tone

What if you could get your students on a website at the same time without them having to type in a URL?

Introducing Google Tone!  With Google Tone you simply share a series of beeps with nearby computers, laptops, or mobile devices.  For this feature to work properly all devices must be ready to receive a URL by:

  • having the Google Tone extension installed to their Chrome web browser and turned on,
  • being logged into their Google account; and
  • having audio (speakers and microphones) enabled on each device.

Sure, you could just bookmark your sites after typing in the URL or you could broadcast a series of beeps to your most favorable sites and have everyone on the same site at the same time.  So many avenues and they all take you to the same place.  It just boils down to preference.

Google Tone may not work in loud spaces, over a distance, with a poor Internet connection, or on computers without a microphone or with a microphone incapable of detecting sound broadcasts.