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 * Making Chrome Amazing with Google Apps and Extensions **

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Awesome Apps:
====An App is an application or program that runs in your Google Chrome browser that takes you to another website. Apps require user interaction. Examples include games, photo editors, audio recorders, concept map making, and video recorders and players. Apps are located on your Chrome start pages and new tabs, or through the "Apps" found in the upper left corner of your browser. They are full icons in the Chrome Web Store.====



Use Applications to:

 * Storytelling
 * Video editing
 * Animating
 * ePublication
 * Multimedia presentation
 * Diagraming
 * Scrapbooking
 * Siimulating
 * Demonstrating
 * Presenting

Exciting Extensions for Education:
====An Extension enhances the user experience and adds productivity to any website when using the Google Chrome browser. Typically there is very little user interaction. Examples include URL shortners, timers, screen captures and readability aids. Extensions are located on the right side of the address bar. They appear as puzzle piece icons in the Chrome Web Store.====



Use Extensions to:

 * Highlighting
 * Commenting
 * Reseraching
 * Saving
 * Translating
 * Sharing
 * Listening
 * Networking
 * Bookmarking

Resources:
27 of the Best Chrome Extensions - from The Next Web Blog Chromebooks and Google Apps - Blog Extensions, Add-ons and Apps, Oh My! - EdSurge Blog Google Chrome Apps & Extensions - from Innovative Educator Consulting Great Math Apps & Extensions for Your Chromebook - from EdTechReview Wheel of Padagogy V3 - from A. Carrington and Edudemic article