My Favorite Chrome Extensions
Chrome extensions make your browsing experience more convenient and help your to be more productive. Think of them as little backdoors to your favorite apps. This list, in no particular order, displays my favorites and the ones I use on a daily basis.
- This extension allows me to stream Chrome Tabs to a display connected to Google Chromecast. No wires necessary. I use this when I do classroom demo lessons. I can control the display wirelessly with my Chromebook or mobile device from anywhere in the room. This conveniently makes my mobile device a remote control.
- This extension allows you to split your screen on a Chromebook. It works on a PC, but is more suited for Chromebooks. This is useful with students for digital notetaking. They can open a tab with an article or website and a tab with a Google Doc. Dualless splits the screen equally so they can read on one side and take notes simultaneously on the other. This can also be used to take notes on a YouTube or online video.
- This extension allows you to easily take screenshots and have them saved automatically in your Google Drive. In addition, it allows you to do screencasting. Screencasting is a great way for teachers to implement blended learning and flipped lessons. Students can turn their Google Slides presentations into videos and much more.
- This extension allows you to have a shortcut to open Google Keep just above your bookmark bar. It simply opens Google Keep in a new tab.
- This extension allows you to save any website you're on to Google Keep. It saves it on a note as a link. You can then add your own notes to it.
- This extension allows you to save any website, image or part of a website to Microsoft OneNote. I use OneNote for academic notetaking. When doing research for my Master's, I used this extension to save articles or parts of articles to my notes in OneNote. This is a great tool for students to do interactive notebooks.
- This extension creates pop up notifications for Gmail. In Microsoft Outlook, a pop up notification appears with each email. This extension does the same for the web-based Gmail. In addition, by clicking on the extension button, you can view your messages at a glance without having to go to your Gmail.
- This extension creates pop up notifications for Google Calendar. In Microsoft Outlook, a pop up notification appears with each calendar event. This extension does the same for the web-based Google Calendar. In addition, by clicking on the extension button, you can view your calendar at a glance without having to go to your Google Calendar.
- This extension shows you how much time you spend on the websites you visit. This may be helpful in monitoring your productivity.
- This extension allows you to share web pages directly to students logged into your Google Classroom. In addition, it provides a convenient back door to launch Google Classroom. Google Classroom isn't the easiest app to access. This extension can launch it directly from your browser as long as you are signed into Chrome.
- Share Desktop!
- This extension allows you to share your screen with others. It creates a link for people to click on. This link shows them your screen.
- Tweetdeck Launcher
- This extension simply opens Tweetdeck in a new tab.
- Ghostery
- This extension allows you see who is tracking you while your browse the certain websites. It blocks them from tracking your movements and clicks. It does slow your browser down a little bit, but it's interesting to see who is watching.
- This extension is a companion to the web app AirDroid. If you have an iPhone, this doesn't apply to you. If you have an Android, download the AirDroid app, create a free account and log in. Do the same on your computer in the Chrome Web Store. This web app allows you to get all your phone notifications on computer. You can manage phone storage and send/receive texts among many other features. This extension allows you to receive those notifications no matter what website you are on.
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