The document outlines the benefits of the Chrome browser, highlighting its speed, reliability, and a variety of useful extensions. These extensions enhance functionality for tasks such as ad blocking, easy research, and document management, making them valuable tools in an educational setting. The use of these extensions can significantly improve student engagement and efficiency during online activities.

3. Benefits of Chrome!
• Free – Google’s platform
• Fast
• Reliable
• It has overtaken IE as the top browser
• Stable across all platforms
• Has all these amazing free add-ons to improve
browsing from the Chrome webstore
• Sign in to multiple accounts – fantastic feature

4. Omnibox Bookmarks Extensions
Profiles
Applications

9. These are all my applications

10. You can add backgrounds
(via Amy Mayer)

12. These are all my extensions

13. 1.Turn off the Lights
Turn OFF the Lights is a fantastic little extension that will take YouTube videos and darken
the entire screen around the video leaving your video lit up! The focus will be solely on
the video you want to show the students in your classroom! No distractions! The entire
page will be darkened, so you can watch the video as if you were in the cinema. Click
again and the page will return back as normal. Look at this before and after comparison.
Before After

14. 2. Google Dictionary
This is SO useful for your students especially primary school
students. This tool can be very useful when students are
researching as whenever they double click on a word the
meaning is displayed as shown below. The meaning simply pops
up in a yellow box.

15. 3. Awesome screenshot
This is a great annotation tool. With this tool you can
capture the whole page or any portion, and annotate it
with rectangles, circles, arrows, lines and text, blur
sensitive info, etc.

16. 4. Webpage screenshot
This takes a picture of your web page immediately and all you have
to do is save it. It is like Printscreen except that you can also do the
following to the page:
*Draw
*Edit
*Cut
*Change
*Resolution
*Write Comments
*Share via Gmail

17. 5. Adblock
This is described as ‘The most popular Chrome extension, with over 10
million users! Blocks ads all over the web.’ How often are you in YouTube and
the ads start appearing? It is most annoying. AdBlock It works automatically:
just click "Add to Chrome," then visit your favourite website and see the ads
disappear!

18. 6. Google URL shortener (goo.gl)
Whenever you are in a website and you want to shorten the link
to promote it on Facebook or Twitter, the URL shortener is right
there on the browser bar. You cick on it and it gives you the
shortened version to copy.

19. 7. Open Google Docs
This is useful if you want to open a Google Doc and write something.

20. 8. Save as PDF
This extension lets you download web pages as PDFs in one click. It uses
https://pdfcrowd.com html to pdf online service. This can save loads of time
when wanting to download an interesting resource to use later.

21. 9. WatchDoc
This is a useful extension if you collaborate a lot on Google Docs. It could be very useful
to a teacher. It notifies you if your Google Docs change. If you have shared some
documents with others on Google Docs you normally have to go and check whether
anyone's modified them. This Chrome extension will list your shared documents that
were updated since the last time you have viewed them right from your browser bar.

22. 10. Diigo bookmarks
Diigo is a MUST for anyone who surfs the Internet. The extension added to your
browser enables you to quickly save something for later and open it again on any
computer where you have signed into Chrome. You just click on the icon and it opens a
box that will enable you to tag the resource very easily. It is a case of:
1) Click on the extension icon
2) Choose ‘bookmark’
3) Add the tag name
4) Click on save

23. 11. Send to Google docs
You might want to send the whole page to Google Docs either as a
document or a PDF and store it there.

24. 12. Text to speech
Highlight the text that you want read, click on Text to Speech and sit back and
listen!

25. Classroom uses
• With more and more students going online in
class, these extensions could really assist
students with what they need to do in a task
right there in the browser.
• The time-saving ability that these extensions
bring to a classroom is amazing.