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10 Must have Chrome Extensions that are FREE!

1. EasyBib Citation Tool: Cite web sites with one click and receive advice on the credibility of the website you’re citing.

2. goo.gl url shortener is an extension which allows you to shorten the current website URL and can also create a QR code. Great tool when you want your students to get somewhere quickly.

3. Readability: Declutter online reading. One click simplifies text on a page to create a comfortable reading platform.

4. Texthelp Study Skills tool is an add on within Google Drive. Access it in under your Add-ons in your toolbar. This allows you to highlight text anywhere within Google Drive. You can also collect your highlights into a separate document with the collect highlight feature.

5. Speakit! reads selected text using Text-to-Speech technology with language auto-detection. It can read text in more than 50 languages.

6. Voicenote: speech to text in a simple and functional notepad. Easy access to punctuation that can’t be dictate.

7. Wunderlist is the swiss army knife of lists. The extension is actually just one piece of this awesome organizational tool. Check out their website here. The extension is useful for saving websites and links to specific lists. It has a collaborative feature which could be useful with students.

8. Screencastify: Simple screen capture tool.

9. Search by Image: this extension allows you to do a google search by using an image instead of words.

10. Extensity: Now that you have so many extensions you need a way to organize them. Extensity is your app/extension organization tool to allows you to quickly disable and enable extensions.

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