Best Chrome Web Apps and Extensions for Education

As the majority of teachers at Profile has moved to Chrome, this blog, Web Apps Reviews,  is written by two Google certified trainers and teachers who will help you get the most of its power, i.e., cloud-based software.

"Web App Reviews is a site dedicated to reviewing the best Chrome Web Apps and Extensions for Education.  As schools are moving more and more towards cloud-based services, it is important to find high quality resources for the classroom.

Each review includes a written blog post and a short video covering what the web app or extension does as well as practical ideas for use in schools."

A permanent link is on the right side of this page, under Best Ed Tech Blogs. 

Enjoy

Jude

How to post a Book Review on Alexandria's online catalog

English, History, Social Studies and other teachers:

Here is a nice, high tech assignment project for your classes: 

It is really easy to post book reviews on our school online library catalog. Look at the 3 min tutorial here.

Student just need to ask anybody from the Media Center staff for their patron number, and use their last name as their password. As you'll see, it is pretty self-explanatory. Teachers may post their own reviews and ratings as well.

Jude

Computer Maintenance 101 part 2: installing Malwarebytes

For optimal image quality, start the video and change the quality to 720 HD

Jude

Teaching with ipad

For teachers using Ipad in the classroom:

Subtext is a free iPad app that allows classroom groups to exchange ideas in the pages of digital texts. Teachers can embed quizzes, blogs, polls in the text. Great feature allows teachers to grab articles off the web and put on group shelf.

See the features and download here.

Jude

Computer Maintenance 101- Setting up AVG

This is the first screencasting of Computer Maintenance 101 by the Profile Tech Patrol. For higher picture quality, start up the video and change the settings to 720p HD. For crystal clear image, download the video from this page. Stay tune for more.

Jude

Planning Common Core Lessons?: Free, Web-based applications can help align your plans with the new standards

Planning Common Core Lessons?: Free, Web-based applications can help align your plans with the new standards

This article takes a serious look at what is available to help teachers create and manage Common Core lesson plans. I could not recommend enough taking a look at the first two tools, Common Curriculum,  and Mastery Connect.


Jude