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5 Ideas to Amp Up Chromebooks

The CoolCatTeacher

Today John Sowash @rsowash talks formative assessment, multimedia, and the must-have apps for Chromebooks. Today he gives us five ideas to amp up our Chromebook classroom. Many of these tools and tips will work for any device that can access the Web. 10-Minute Teacher Giveaway: The Chromebook Classroom Book by John Sowash.

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Android Apps for Education - work on Chromebooks and Chrome OS Tablets too!

Educational Technology Guy

But, you can also use Android Apps on Chromebooks , including the new Chromebook Tab 10 Chrome OS tablet. And don't forget about all of the Chrome Apps, Extensions and full websites Chromebooks and the Chromebook Tab can access. Chrome and Android all in one!

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Creating an Accessibility-Friendly Environment

Educational Technology Guy

Accessibility is an important topic in education and encompasses the classroom space, digital tools and resources and much more. Creating an Accessibility-Friendly Classroom Environment Is the classroom bursting with patterned borders on the bulletin boards and bright colorful posters/word walls/anchor charts?

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The Case for PDFs in Class Revisited

Ask a Tech Teacher

The most dependable method of accessing resources is through programs preloaded onto the local computer or available as PDFs that are easily shared. This might be to save money on maintenance or to make them accessible from anywhere or any number of other great reasons, but the change results in the problems I’ve mentioned.

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7 Powerful Chromebook Typing Apps for Teaching and Learning Touch Typing

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Below is a collection of some good tools to help students using Chromebook learn typing. These Chromebook typing apps are compatible with Chrome and some of them are also available as Chrome extensions. Typing Club offers numerous lessons which you can access from the lesson plans catalog.

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Level Up Your Virtual Teaching with Screencasting Tools!

Teacher Reboot Camp

You can also record a short lesson students can access anytime. Discover more ways to integrate technology effectively by taking one of my fully accredited online courses or get one of my books ! Screencast-o-matic is a web tool to screencast your computer or Chromebook screen and add narration.

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Chromebooks in the Classrooms–Friend or Foe?

Ask a Tech Teacher

AATT contributor, Krista Albrecht, has a balanced evaluation of Chromebooks in the classroom I think you’ll find useful. Chromebooks in the Classrooms… Friend or Foe? Chromebooks in the Classrooms… Friend or Foe? Chromebooks…those little computers that everyone is talking about. At roughly about 2.5