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Chrome Extensions and Apps for Students & Staff: Reading & Writing

Save to Google to Drive

Save to Google Drive 

Users can save web content or screenshots directly to Google Drive. 

Destiny Discover Extension

Flashcards for Google Dictionary

Flashcards for Google Dictionary 

Users can create digital flash cards for any words that have been saved with the Google Dictionary extension. These cards contain the definition of each word, as well as a sentence example.

Co:Writer

Co:Writer

Word prediction that is grammar smart and inventive spelling aware. Speech recognition allows you to speak it, and we'll write it. 

Overdrive App

Overdrive 

This is an ebook reader and audiobook app that allows you to borrow and return ebooks and audiobooks from the King County Library System. Users can create holds, wishlists, and instantly return books hassle-free. In addition, you can sync your library, bookmarks and last-read position across multiple devices, allowing you to easily switch between reading on a phone, tablet, or Chromebook. 

Kindle App

Kindle Cloud Reader

This is Amazon's Kindle ebook reading app which allows you to read your Amazon ebooks from your browser or Chromebook. 

FlashTabs Exgtension

FlashTabs

This extension enables you to create a deck of flash cards and process through it as part of your daily workflow, every time you open a new tab screen.

Google Dictionary

Google Dictionary 

Users can check the definition of any word. Double click on a word or open the search bar from the browser icon, and a small pop-up with the definition appears. 

Office Offline App

Microsoft's Office Online

Allows you create, open and edit MS Office documents, with support for Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote, and Sway. Users can access locally stored files, or work collaboratively through the cloud with OneDrive support.. 

Google Keep Extension

Google Keep 

Allows the user to create digital “sticky” notes where students can create lists and add text, images, and audio. 

Evernote App

Evernote 

A digital notepad that allows you to organize your notes and other files into searchable, cloud-based notebooks that can be synced across devices, with even more features available to premium subscribers.

Note Anywhere

 

Note Anywhere

With this extension, you can make notes on any web page, any position. When you open that page again, the notes get loaded automatically. 

Power Thesaures

Power Thesaurus 

User can look up a list of synonyms and antonyms for any word desired. Users either double click on a word or search from the toolbar icon, and a set of suggested words appears within the browser.

Thesaurus: Synonym 4 Right Click Extension

Synonym 4 Right Click

This thesaurus extension adds Synonyms to the right click menu, as seen in Microsoft Office(TM). It also gives you the option to look up the highlighted words in Urban Dictionary (TM).

NewsGuard

 

NewsGuard

NewsGuard's red/green ratings and labels help users know which news and information websites to trust. 

Open Dyslexic Font for Chrome

 

Open Dyslexic

 

Open-Dyslexic is an open sourced font created to increase readability for readers with dyslexia.