60 Apps in 60 Minutes Chrome Edition

Me. Tj Houston Director of Technology @ Huron City Schools Huron, Ohio Blogger @ www.tjhouston.com Twitter-er @tjhouston Emailer @ [email protected] Talker @ 419.975.9749

Fundamentals.

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Google Chrome and HTML5 Storage

Drive ● Think of Google Drive as the hard drive on your computer. Drive is what stores all of your files (Documents, Pictures, etc.) ● Drive vs. Drive vs. Dropbox

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Productivity 1 - 10

1. Documents ● Similar to word. ● 20% of the tools as word. But 80% of what you need. ● Great to collaborate for conferences etc.

2. Presentations ● ● ● ●

Similar to Powerpoint Great for embedding in websites Easily insert Youtube videos Transitions and Timing

3. Spreadsheets ● Similar to Excel ● Embed into websites (Bully Count) ● Create graphs and charts

4. Drawing ● ● ● ●

Great place for kids to draw and diagram. Word Art Pre-configured shapes Create in drawing -> insert into other apps

5. Forms ● Excellent way to get information from students, staff or community ● Information gets entered into a spreadsheet where it is easily sorted ● Extras: ○ Merge Form Data to PDF ○ Have Google Grade Your Tests For You

6. Calendar ● Web Based Calendar ● Syncs with mobile devices ● Create resources (Labs, Meeting Rooms, etc.) ● Embeddable (School Calendars, Sports Schedules, etc. ) ● Subscriptions

7. Fusion Tables ● ● ● ●

Visualize and Map Data Picture Location Information Student Information Map Demographic Data

8. Lucid Charts ● Great for student mindmaps ● Shows under the create menu in Google Drive ● Free for education ● Collaborate on: ○ ○ ○ ○

Flowcharts Venn Diagrams Graphic Organizers Mindmaps

9. Wave Accounting ● Free webbased accounting software ● Great for financial literacy or accounting class ● Create invoices quotes ● Track Expenses ● Double entry bookkeeping ● Great for startups and small businesses

10. Evernote ● ● ● ● ● ● ●

Notebook Syncs with mobile devices OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Searchable Great for todo lists Share & Collaborate Integrates with several other apps

Extensions https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions 11-20

Extension vs App What's the difference?

1. Goo.gl Url Shortener ● ● ● ●

Instantly shorten urls in the web browser Easily create QR code See analytics History saved in Google account

2. Add This ● Share to social networks in one simple click ● Customizable

3. Tab Packager ● Packages & Creates a link to all of your open tags ● Great for webquests

4. Diigo Web Collector ● ● ● ●

My online brain Bookmark and sync what your are reading Highlight and annotate directly on webpages Free education accounts!

5. Rapportive ● Pull social information into gmail ● Great for making new connections ● Great for investigating potential employees ● Great way to show students about how easy it is to stumble upon their digital footprint

6. Scribefire ● Blog Editor ● Offline editing ● Connects with several blog services such as Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, etc.

7. Evernote Web Clipper ● Grab information from any website and save it to your Evernote account ● Grab whole articles, highlighted text, or just the url of the article

8. Screen Capture ● Web based screen capture utility ● Grab just parts or the whole screen ● Annotate, Draw, and type text on the image before saving

9. Send using Gmail ● Whenever a mailto: link is clicked it will open up gmail. ● Yep... that simple :)

10. Rss Subscriber ● Subscribe to websites with one simple click ● Add the websites RSS to your Google Reader

Music Creation 21-30

1. Pandora ● ● ● ●

Free online radio Learns what you like (Music DNA) Lyrics on most songs Several Genre's and Stations already created ● Your DNA travels with you

2. Google Play Music ● Web based music player ● Similar to iTunes ● Similar to iCloud as far as syncing

3. Notation Training ● Simple tool to help learn sheet music ● Bass, Treble, and Alto ● Single notes & chords

4. Pugs Notation Training ● Game based notation trainings ● Work through levels ● Use your keyboard to type the notes

5. Guitar Tuner ● Hear the note that your are tuning to ● Great way to train your ear to tune your guitar ● Alternate tunings available

6. Online Guitar Tuner ● Similar to digital tuner ● Uses computer microphone to pick up sounds

7. AudioTool ● Authentic Beatbox and Synth Tool ● Very realistic ● Tutorial can be found here

7. Beatlab ● Lay down some SERIOUS beats ● Leaderboards for voting ● Super easy to use

8. Virtual Drums ● Good for a new student first looking at a drum set to learn about it ● Play with mouse or keyboard ● Great way to relieve stress

9. Percussion Master ● Percussion machine similar to beatlab with more control and more instruments

10. Virtual Piano Black ● Play the piano with your keyboard ● Learn piano by typing ● Tutor built in with several songs

Photo / Art 31-40

1. Divvr ● Abstract art creation app. ● Several different brushes and colors ● Save, Export to other apps

2. Google Art Project ● Google Street View Meets Art Museums ● Lots of information ● Several Museums ● Create your own galleries

3. Simple Image Resizer ● Upload several different file types ● Simple Interface ● Instant download

4. Be Funky ● Easily upload photos ● Filters ● Stickers ● HSL ● Export to desktop or social networks

5. Psykopaint ● Fun ● Free version allows for a lot of creativity ● Learn different artists style

6. PicMonkey ● ● ● ●

Add filters Overlays Finite Controls Save or share directly to social media

7. Picasa ● Online Photo Gallery ● Great photo management ● Easy to use for classroom websites

8. Pixlr-o-matic ● Most Basic of the Pixlr Family ● Similair to Instagram (Filters) ● Easy to use

9. Pixlr Express ● ● ● ●

Great for minor photo fixes Similar to photoshop elements Easily create collages Add stickers, frames, and filters

10. Pixlr Editor ● Web Based Photoshop Clone ● Similar features as express plus: ○ Layers ○ Brushes & Text ○ Gradients & fills

● Other pixlr apps are more step by step. Editor you get full creative control

Math 41-50

1. Desmos ● Online Graphing Calculator ● Galleries ● Save your work online

2. Mathjong ● Basic Facts ○ ○ ○ ○

Addition Subtraction Multiplication Division

● Game Based Learning

3. Suduku ● Great for critical thinking ● Great for de-stressing

4. Mathtab ● Build small apps using math ● Application of math concepts

5. Codeacademy ● Step by step exercises to learn to code in several languages ● Complete after school program curriculum for free ● Students earn badges and work at their own pace

6. Learn To Count Money ● Introduces money ● Practice counting

7. Math Aliens ● Learn basic math functions arcade style

8. Circuit Lab ● Interactive circuit building and testing

9. Science Games ● Links to several science and healthcare games with simulations

10. Math Science Tutor ● Practice Questions and Problems ● Good for review of a topic ● Not really a tutoring service

Misc. 51-60

1. Kindle Cloud Reader ● Read Kindle books online ● Syncs with other Kindle apps ● Create and edit notes ● Offline reading

2. Feedly ● Easily read your favorite blogs in a magazine like fashion. ● Imports all Google Reader Feeds ● Resources for Google Reader migration

3. Timer ● ● ● ●

Web Based Timer Counts up Counts down Alarm Clock

4. Draw it live ● Collaborative white board ● Great for student projects and collaboration ● Built in chat function as well

5. Trello ● Collaborative Task Board ● Schedule reminders ● Create several boards

6. WeVideo ● Web based collaborative video editor ● Simple and advanced options ● Videos save into drive

7. Type Fu ● Repetitive typing practice with different levels of difficulty

8. Coloring Pages ● Quick and free way to get coloring pages

9. Typing Club ● Practice typing with interactive lessons ● Students can track progress ● Teacher Portal that allows you to monitor student progress and assign lessons

10. Angry Birds! ● Now Available Offline!

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