Educational Technology

If Google Chrome is the browser you use to navigate the net, here are some of our favourite apps to help you make the best of your browsing experience and enhance your productivity. The selection is subjective and based entirely on our personal experiences.  The tools featured here provide a wide range of functionalities from recording notes and creating to-do lists to organizing tabs and accessing Google Scholar resources. Check them out and share with us your feedback. 1-  Google Keep ‘Found a webpage, image, or quote that you want to save for later? With the Google Keep Chrome Extension, easily save the things  you care about  to Keep and have them synced across all of the platforms that you use — including web, Android, iOS, and Wear. Take notes for additional detail and add labels to quickly categorize your note for later retrieval.’ 2-  OneTab “Whenever you find yourself with too many tabs, click the OneTab icon to convert all of your tabs into a list. Whe...

Upon the requests of some of our readers here in EdTech and mLearning we went ahead and curated for you the list below featuring what we think are some of the best video and animation maker tools in Chrome store. Teachers can use them to create explainer videos, educational animations, stop motion animations, and many more. We have excluded several titles from the list because of the negative reviews they got on Chrome web store (e.g., Animaker, GoAnimate, Animoto Video Maker). However, keep in mind, that most of the tools featured below provide both free and premium versions so you will probably need to upgrade at some point for more sophisticated features.  We invite you to check them out and share with us your feedback. 1- Screencastify This is one of our favoruite Chrome extensions for recording screens. It allows you to annotate your screen with pen, focus a spotlight on your mouse, crop and trim your recording and many more. The free version supports up to 10 minutes per vid...

Lumio is an excellent tool to use for bookmarking, curating, and clipping web content. Students can use it to highlight interesting content in a webpage, add notes to it  and save it for a later access. Highlights are recorded together with source information so students can easily check back and cite source pages. Additionally, Lumio provides users with internal search functionality that allows them to quickly search through and locate saved content. Users can organize their highlights into collections and rearrange them the way they want. However, you do need to sign up to Lumio to be able to benefit from all of its features including  storing data on the cloud and accessing it from different devices. Another cool feature is the ability to access and read your saved content using Lumio’s built-in reader with a distraction free reading view. You can also easily channel your highlights to other apps such as Slack or Trello or share them with others through email or social med...