This week's showcase is RefME a free citation tool I came across. I have made a quick little how-to to show you what it looks like and what it can do for you and your students. I think it's a really cool tool. It creates the citations for you as well as helps you to find and organize your research resources.. You can choose the style of citations that you want to create. It has a mobile app in addition to the web-based access. Check out the screencast to see more.
Grammarly
I came across this really helpful tool for students to use to correct errors in their writing assignments. It will help writers to correct contextual spelling, grammar, punctuation and sentence structure and style. Grammarly can be used to check any document a student may write as well as be used in MS Word. You can create a document in Grammarly and then copy it to a Google document or a Word document. See the demo of how it works.Get Grammarly it's free.
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Math Games - a Pre-K to 8th grade Math site
MathGames provides 1200 different ways to practice math, ranging from Pre-K all the way to the 8th grade. Parents and Teachers get instant feedback on their students progress and can decide which method is best used to reach their students - interactive questions or fun games powered by the very same content. Whatever works best to keep students engaged and focused on practicing math. Notice I highlighted parents above. This would be a good one to include on your teacher web site or in a newsletter home.
Cool Google Tools teachers should use
Save to Google This is a really nice add-on. It allows the user to save directly to Google. See the image below. When you have a video, image or other types of files that you want to save directly to Google Drive, once you add this Save to Google to your chrome you can just right click and you will see the Save to Google Drive option in the drop down list. It makes saving things to Google so easy. I love it!
Google Quick Drive Create This is so nice. If you add this extension to your Chrome Browser you can instantly create a Google document, spreadsheet, presentation or drawing. Screencast showing you how easy it is to use the Google Quick Drive Create.
Office Editing for Docs, Sheets, and Slides View and edit Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. This is a tool for those who don't have Office installed on their computers. So if that's you then you may want to check out this handy Google Drive Tool.
View and edit Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files -- without needing Office installed on your computer. Once the extension is installed, Office files that you drag into Chrome, open in Gmail, Google Drive, and more, will be opened in Docs, Sheets, and Slides for viewing and editing. You can save each file back to its original Office format, or convert it to Docs, Sheets, or Slides to unlock more features, like inviting others to edit with you, commenting, chat, and more. Please note that Office files cannot be edited in the classic version of Drive. The new Google Drive is gradually rolling out to all users via the Settings menu. If you don't see the option to try the new look, check back again shortly. Learn more here: https://support.google.com/drive/?p=new_drive. Formats supported: .doc .docx .xls .xlsx .ppt .pptx Please note: This extension is already installed on Chrome OS by default.
Syncing Google Drive with Dropbox Sync and manage all your files in the cloud directly from your Google Drive page. With this browser extension, you can sync, backup and integrate anything in your Dropbox, Sharepoint, Google Gmail, Evernote, Box, OneDrive, Egnyte, or Basecamp account with Google Drive. Setup can be done directly from your Google Drive interface. Some use cases; *You can backup your Google Drive to Dropbox with you Google Drive; changes from Dropbox will be replicated to Google Drive and all changes from Google Drive will be dusplicated to Dropbox * and more Key Features: *Setup real-time sync of any Google Drive folder with any Evernote notebook, Box, OneDrive, OneDrive folder, Gmail label, Sharepoint, Basecamp, Dropbox, and more... *Browse all your files in the cloud directly from your Google Drive webpage.
Office Editing for Docs, Sheets, and Slides View and edit Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. This is a tool for those who don't have Office installed on their computers. So if that's you then you may want to check out this handy Google Drive Tool.
View and edit Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files -- without needing Office installed on your computer. Once the extension is installed, Office files that you drag into Chrome, open in Gmail, Google Drive, and more, will be opened in Docs, Sheets, and Slides for viewing and editing. You can save each file back to its original Office format, or convert it to Docs, Sheets, or Slides to unlock more features, like inviting others to edit with you, commenting, chat, and more. Please note that Office files cannot be edited in the classic version of Drive. The new Google Drive is gradually rolling out to all users via the Settings menu. If you don't see the option to try the new look, check back again shortly. Learn more here: https://support.google.com/drive/?p=new_drive. Formats supported: .doc .docx .xls .xlsx .ppt .pptx Please note: This extension is already installed on Chrome OS by default.
Syncing Google Drive with Dropbox Sync and manage all your files in the cloud directly from your Google Drive page. With this browser extension, you can sync, backup and integrate anything in your Dropbox, Sharepoint, Google Gmail, Evernote, Box, OneDrive, Egnyte, or Basecamp account with Google Drive. Setup can be done directly from your Google Drive interface. Some use cases; *You can backup your Google Drive to Dropbox with you Google Drive; changes from Dropbox will be replicated to Google Drive and all changes from Google Drive will be dusplicated to Dropbox * and more Key Features: *Setup real-time sync of any Google Drive folder with any Evernote notebook, Box, OneDrive, OneDrive folder, Gmail label, Sharepoint, Basecamp, Dropbox, and more... *Browse all your files in the cloud directly from your Google Drive webpage.