Notebooking, Teaching, and Technology

I am always wanting to send out links to my presentations in "Preview" and "Force a Copy" mode but get annoyed that I have to change the end of the URL manually (so I just send the link in "View" mode and inevitably wind up getting emails from folks requesting access to edit). A friend of mine came back from the TCEA (Texas Computer Education Association) conference and shared a new (to me) Chrome extension that does the work of altering a Google presentation URL for me! It is called  Sir Links-a-Lot  and it is great! I made  the cartoon  below explaining it for my  Classy Creation's  workshop assignment this week (Captivating Comics). If you share work you've made within Google you definitely need to check out this extension.

I am currently at a conference specific to users of the Discovery Education website and I have been going to a number of classes. In yesterday's class, how to use green screen with DE resources, the instructor Dave. T. showed us this fun chrome extension. The extension basically lets you display text (in this case his website address) in a huge banner like format across your screen (see last picture). This is a great tool for directing students to websites that they normally couldn't see on your screen (in the past I just copied and pasted web addresses to a Word document and blew it up - this is much better!).  Below are screen shots on how to get the extension and how to use it.