Chrome Cheat Sheet and Extension Favs

What a find this morning while browsing my Google+ feed. This was posted by +Miquel Guhlin but I see that kbell6 from ShakeUpLearning.com  actually created this. Love the visuals on the anatomy of Chrome. Many die hard IE folks are determined NOT to give Chrome a try. In my opinion, THEY are missing out on some really awesome features that can save time, help struggling learners, tap in on your own learning style, and so much more. Some of my "can't live without" apps and/or extensions are:

• Diigo capture, save,  annotate
• Pinterest pin it button
• Add This button (customize to your preference)
• One Tab- save many tabs, name the session and have it ready to open for a presentation, or class
• Clip to Evernote
• Go to Feedly (my aggregator)
• Goo shortener (provides a QR code also)
• TLDR (too long, didn't read) summarizes long articles
• Google Dictionary
• Sound Gecko - text to speech or another one is: iSpeech

Google Chrome Cheat Sheet by kbell6

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Movenote

The homepage of Movenote shares a video tutorial to help you understand the features that it offers. 

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Have You Googled Yourself Lately?

Ran across this video that explains pretty plainly why we need to be careful when posting on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and more. What we do now may come back one day to hurt our dreams later. Have you Googled yourself to check out your digital footprint? Watch this video to see if it changes some of the things you post.

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Google Slides Offline

Offline Presentations go Online

Posted by Rusty Meyners on TCEA's community which he borrowed from: http://googledrive.blogspot.com/2013/01/create-edit-and-present-with-google.html

Create, edit and present with Google Slides offline

Good news, Slides lovers. You can now create, edit, comment and (perhaps most importantly) present without an internet connection-just like you can with Docs. Any new presentations or changes you make will be automatically updated when you get back online. So you can continue polishing slides on your next flight, and head to your upcoming presentation without worrying about whether there's going to be wifi.

If you already have offline editing for Docs enabled, you don't have to change anything to work with Slides offline. If not, you can turn it on for Slides (and Docs) by following these instructions. Note that to work offline you'll need to be usingChrome or ChromeOS.

We're rolling this functionality out over the course of the day. And for those of you who use Google Sheets, we're working to make offline spreadsheets available as well-stay tuned.

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