Google Chrome New Tab Added

Chrome Audio Icon

So many times audio is leaving the speakers of our school computers.  Many times sites will "auto play" audio and you may not know what tab the audio is coming from!

Chrome Web Browsers have AUDIO ICONS that will appear on the tab that audio is playing on.

The image below has an AUDIO ICON toward the right of the tab.  The icon ONLY plays when audio is coming from a resource on that tab.

Mystery Solved.

Evernote Researching Tool For High School English

Today, students in Mrs. Deprey's English 10, will begin using Evernote as a researching tool.  Students will use Chromebooks, Evernote, and the Evernote Web Clipper Chrome Extension to organize information on past and current leaders of the world.

As an introduction, students will learn:

• The overall concept of Evernote: Remember Everything
• Why Evernote, notebooks, and tags can simplify and centralize researching.
• How to sign up for Evernote.
• How to install the Evernote Web Clipper Extension from the Chromestore
• How to use the Evernote Web Clipper Extension
• How to log out!

View Presentation

Impact On Students:
Critical Thinking: Students will need to determine the notebook and tags that they will create to organize their information found during research.

Chromebooks In The Library - Lunch N' Learn

Chromebooks: What Are They? LINK


Chromebooks: How Do Students Use Them

• Flip Top of Chromebook Up
• Left Corner - Add User
• Chrome Sign Up Same Username/Password For Google Account
• Choose Picture For Display of Account
• May need to sign in with password again
• Click App Launcher on bottom left
• Will see same extensions from any computer when using Chrome
• Done?
• Log Out
• Find Bottom Right Time Display, Click
• Click Sign Out, Done

Video Link
Multiple Google Accounts

Chromebook First Day With Students Set Up

Mrs. Schmidt is in her second year of implementing Chromebooks on a "as needed basis".  That means, she has Chromebooks present in her classroom whenever she needs them.  More importantly, whenever the students need them.

View how she efficiently guided her students to log in for the first time and set up their web browsing experience.

Seamless!

Google Chrome's Three Little Lines

Google Chrome is a wonderful tool to surf the web, especially if your school uses Google Apps For Education.

Our school district does!

Therefore learning about what's behind "Three Little Lines" can help you become more efficient by utilizing tools that aide in completing tasks!


Normally, I like to create video tutorials that last two to three minutes.  This one lasted slightly over six minutes, but is well worth the view to learn all that the "three little lines" offer!



In addition, Google provides a Choose Your Account option.  Consider this if you would share a "non public" computer with your family or have multiple Google accounts (one professional, one personal) that you you want simultaneous access to during the day.
Visit Google Account Chooser

Chrome's Three Little Lines

Chrome's three little lines provide so much information!  Discover the helpful items that lie behind the three little line at Tuesday's Lunch N' Learn.

Awesome New Tab...In 20 Seconds

Evernote With Students

After a Lunch N' Learn about the Whys of Evernote, Miss Tubbs decided that Evernote would be the best tool for collecting and organizing resources for a problem solution paper.

It was important to have students acquire the correct tools in the correct order.
See the Evernote of the order of introduction for students.

View the process & reaction from students.

Chrome Extensions

Chrome Extensions
How to get there, and what to do!


Reading and Writing Supports for the Chromebooks

AdBlock

Readability

Quietube

YouTube Looper

CiteLighter

Cite This For Me

Google URL Shortener

Trash Can

Black Menu

Awesome Screen Shot & Annotator

Evernote Web Clipper

SpeakIt!

Voice Search

Gmail Attachments To Drive (options)

Google Dictionary

Incredible Start Up Page

Tab Cloud

Send From Gmail

Free Resource
Keyboard Shortcuts
ctrl-shift-T (reopen last tab)

Disconnecting Google Chrome

Google Search Features 11 09 12

Some features have changed when using Google as your search engine.

View what they are on a computer ( will try to complete an iPad version soon)

Google Chrome Most Visited

There really are so many features to Google Chrome that one step at a time I am going to inform our staff about the features of Chrome.  The first feature centers around having the most frequently visited websites by a user one click away.  See how to get this feature for your computer.

Episode 20 Google Handwrite

Google Sites - Forms - Blogs - Twitter - Personal Econ

Today we concluded our week long personal economics unit and may I say it was exhausting, but outstanding! We created an entire city using Google sites.  All items students needed to complete were completed through Google Forms.  Students discussed their experience by using Twitter and Google Blogs.

We communicated each day's agenda by sending an email to all students.

BOTTOM LINE: We couldn't have done it without iPads, desktops, laptops, Google tools, and Twitter.  It was our largest problem based task to date.

*some material will not be accessible as we made them only available to our domain.  If you truly want the forms and other things, leave a comment with your contact information!

Our Town:  Raiderville, Wisconsin (created in Google Sites)

Some videos:

Video and Backchanneling

Playing a video is always a risky endeavor.  Will the students pay attention; will they find it interesting?  
The answer to these questions is YES, when using backchanneling.  
In my future, the backchanneling of videos using Today's Meet will be more productive iPad 2's.   I have developed a way to use Google Chrome's Incognito Window to show two screens (video and conversation) at the same time. (See video below)  I also used Safeshare.tv as the method of showing the video.  It is my hope that next year, I will be able to individualize the viewing of video clips using iTunes podcasts or options of videos that I create and upload so that students can have a conversations such as this...
Student #1, "In my video, this is stated..."Student #2, "In my video, this is explained..."
Obviously, this is in the infancy of being efficient using an iPad 2, but my planning continues...