This document provides information on Google extensions and plugins that can help English language learners. It discusses what Google extensions are and how they work. It then recommends several specific extensions that are useful for ESOL students, including Announcify, Select and Speak, TLDR, Read & Write for Google, Lingualy, Google Dictionary, GoAnimate for Schools, English Irregular Verbs 2, Kaizena, and Locolearning. It also provides an overview of what Google Drive is and how it can be used in education, including for collaboration, group projects, and lesson sharing. Finally, it discusses some useful Google Drive add-ons like EasyBib, Mindmeister, and Texthelp Study Skills High

1. Focusing on Google
Plug-ins & Extensions
ForESOL Students Beth Csiszer, M. ED. Cu & I
LancasterSchool District
beth.csiszer@lcsdmail.net

2. What is a Google Extension
• Google Plug-ins (extensions) help the browser process
content in a certain way
• https://sites.google.com/site/chromebookclassroominthecloud/chromebook-training/extensions-and-web-ap
• For Google Plug-ins, you must be using Google Chrome
for them to work
• Some plug-ins begin the installation process by
downloading a set-up file to your computer. Confirm the
download, then restart Google Chrome
• More information about Google Chrome Extensions
– http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/05/15-great-chrome-extensio

3. What is a Google Extension
• The download is free. You can Google “Google Chrome”
for the latest version
http://www.downloadzone.org/lp/google-chrome/1032/?_u=u4p9skmisl8afsn2i49l1t1fp75mpp08525ud850aumg
• When you download Google extensions, they will appear
on your toolbar

4. • Google to the Google Web
Store
• How to go to the Google Web Store
– https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/app/8-education?hl=en

5. How to Install a Plug-In/Extension
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/142064?hl=en

6. How to Enable/Disable Extensions
• Google Chrome extensions will install automatically
• They can be disabled and enabled for various purposes

7. Some of the Best Google Plug-Ins
and Extensions for ESOL Students
• Announcify- Allows any website to be read to the
viewer. A real advantage of this is that students can
read an article and have it read to them which is nice
to check that their annunciation is correct.
• Select and Speak-Works much like Announcify, but
instead of having the entire article read, the viewer can
select sentences or paragraphs with which they are
having difficulty to have read aloud. It can also be
used to select short passages for students to have
read to them.

8. Some of the Best Google Plug-Ins
and Extensions for ESOL Students
TLDR (Too Long Didn't Read)
•Free plugin
•A plugin that summarizes any web article without leaving the
webpage
•Can be shortened to 25%, 50%, and 75% of original article
•Can summarize articles into English, Spanish, German and
French
•Can help student find more articles about the same subject
View preview here: http://youtu.be/_hZWjtnIIBk

9. Some of the Best Google Plug-Ins
and Extensions for ESOL Students
Read & Write for Google™
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=read+and+write+for+google+video&FORM=VIRE1#view=detail
• Hear words, passages, or whole documents read aloud
with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting
• See the meaning of words explained with text and
picture dictionaries
• Hear text translated into other languages
• Get suggestions for the current or next word as you type
• Turn words into text as you speak
• Highlight text in documents or the web and collect for
use in other documents
• Simplify and summarize text on web pages

10. Some of the Best Google Plug-Ins
and Extensions for ESOL Students
Lingualy
http://lingua.ly/
•Google Chrome extension designed to help you learn a
new language while browsing the web.
• With Lingualy installed anytime that you come across a
new word you can double-click on it to hear it pronounced,
read a translation, and read a definition
• The words that you double-click on are added to your
Lingualy account where you can review them in a quiz
format.

11. Some of the Best Google Plug-Ins
and Extensions for ESOL Students
Google Dictionary
•This is a must have for any student, not just ESL learners.
•After installing this plug in, simply select the word that you
want to have defined
•With the click of a button, students are told the part of
speech and have access to many of reference materials to
help them understand the word

12. Some of the Best Google Plug-Ins
and Extensions for ESOL Students
GoAnimate for Schools
•This is a great animated-video creation tool.
• Students can create their own videos with drag-and-drop,
then add your music and backgrounds and engage your
students!
•Would be great to use as an alternate assessment tool
•https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/goanimate-for-schools/hgjpaebfogajhndljeplcmjicfjcd
•Demo: https://goanimate4schools.com/public_index

13. Some of the Best Google Plug-Ins
and Extensions for ESOL Students
• https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/english-irregular-verbs- 2/ocmemdngcmpkekknchlhnbibgb
•Designed to help students “Learn English irregular verbs with
joy.”
•It is focused on intermediate students of English.
•It contains about 120 English irregular verbs.
•All irregular verbs include pronunciation.
• It contains: * Practicing * List of 120 English irregular verbs *
Pronunciation
•The principle of game is the same as in English irregular verbs
English irregular verbs 2

14. Some of the Best Google Plug-Ins
and Extensions for ESOL Students
Kaizena (Voice Comments)
•
Kaizena (formerly Voice Comments) is the fastest way to
give high quality voice feedback on a document.
• Simply highlight and speak!
•http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/10/add-voice-comments-to-google-
documents.html#.VFmLQ8kvSds

15. Some of the Best Google Plug-Ins
and Extensions for ESOL Students
• There is a suite of Apps available in the Google Web
Store you can download from for Common Core
• You can access all Common Core Standards and Apps
to assist in learning. Great for parents, teachers &
students!
Apps For Common Core

16. Some of the Best Google Plug-Ins
and Extensions for ESOL Students
• Simple and efficient approach to memorizing texts and
examination Locolearning is a free tool for creating
educational tests from text materials like textbook
chapter or anything else. Check example and tutorial on
the main page.

17. GOOGLE DRIVE
How to use Google Drive In Education

18. What is Google Drive
• Google Drive is a way to store and share files
• Google Docs is part of Google Drive
– http://youtu.be/6_hJ3R8jEZM
– There is unlimited storage for documents
– You can comment and edit the same document in
real time
– Is compatible with MS Office
– Students have unlimited storage on the cloud

19. What is Google Drive
• It is useful for sharing lesson plans and
collaborating with other teachers
• It can be used for group projects and
presentations
• It can be used to share lessons with students to
access at home

20. Google Drive Add-ons
•http://www.coolcatteacher.com/best-google-drive-add-ons/
•Google Drive has add ons that can be useful for educators
and students
– EasyBib
• You can insert citations directly into Google
Documents directly within the Document using
EasyBib. MLA, APA and Chicago Style are
available. The EasyBib Add On for Google Drive is
one of the first you should enable if you are a writing
teacher.

21. Google Drive Add-ons
• Mindmeister lets you take bulleted lists and convert it
into a mindmap for a graphical depiction.
• Can be a fascinating way to convert a table of contents
or outline for a paper into something easier to read.
• Mindmeister Google Drive add-on gives a powerful
punch to organizing your writing.

22. Google Drive Add-ons
• Texthelp Study Skills Highlighting Tools
– Has many features that can assist ELL and Special
Needs students
– Highlighting and Text Speech built in