Skype an Author

http://skypeanauthor.wikifoundry.com/

English Folk, check out the website and if you see an author that your students would be interested in talking to, let me know and we can use an IPAD to SKYPE with him and her.  How awesome would it be to get his or her perspective on the book you are reading.

Sign up Genius

http://www.signupgenius.com/

Great and easy way to coordinate volunteers for field trips, PTO functions and more.

You probably had a million emails sent back and forth trying to figure out who was going to bring what, and who was even going to attend. Then you get those last minute calls from people who forgot what they were bringing or didn’t know what to bring.

Sign up Genius allows you to  create an easy sign up form, whether you are holding office hours as teacher, or you are planning a volunteer event.

If you are organizing an event, and you have an upcoming event with volunteers, then make your life easier by creating an easy sign up form.  You will have the ability to input what types of volunteer positions are available, and send it out to your volunteer list.  They will be able to sign up for the position they desire, and you will have the information organized in one place.

PicMonkey

Free Photo Editing Software

http://www.picmonkey.com/

Kaizena

Kaizena is a fantastic tool for adding voice comments to Google Documents and Google Presentations. The latest update to Kaizena streamlines feedback notifications.

Kaizena  https://kaizena.com/

Too Long to Read

Too long didn't read? Let TLDR shorten it.

TLDR (Too Long Didn't Read)  Plugin is a free extension that creates a summary of any web article without leaving the original page.
 

Did you ever give students a reading assignment that they didn't read? Have you ever wanted to read a particular article, but it was way too long? If there is not enough time in the day, you hate reading, or you just want a more efficient way of browsing the web, the Too Long Didn't Read (TLDR) may be for you. 



What is it? 



TLDR is a free plugin you can install on your browser to condense long articles into a brief synopsis. Once the plugin is installed, you can visit any webpage you would like. Click on the TLDR icon and you will receive several different options to view your selected article. 


Summary - provides a brief summary of the article, so you can decide whether or not to read it or not!
Short, medium, or long summaries of the article. Think of these as the Cliff Notes version.
The original article with all of the junk filtered out. 

Turn Off the Lights™

https://www.turnoffthelights.com/

Fade out the ads on your You Tube videos by adding this extension to your Chrome Browswer

Turn Off the Lights is a browser extension that lets users obscure everything on their screen except the Flash or HTML5 video they're watching, minimizing distractions and making for a more pleasant viewing experience for the users. A lamp icon is displayed in the browser menu bar or in the omnibox, and users click on the gray lamp icon to make the area surrounding the video fade. Clicking outside the video restores the rest of the screen. Users can adjust the opacity of the screen blocking and select a color other than black if desired.

Create new Documents for Google Drive from your browser bar

Create new Documents for Google Drive from your browser bar.

Add a simple menu to your browser bar to quickly create new Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Forms, and Drawings for Google Drive.

https://github.com/dmihal/Google-Docs-Quick-Create