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99 Awesome Firefox Add-ons for Educators
Here are a few juicy Firefox Add-ons from the list that sounds tasty:
Here are a few juicy Firefox Add-ons from the list that sounds tasty:
- Morning Coffee
This application facilitates your morning routine by displaying the Web sites you visit daily. - Shooter
This browser extension allows you to take a screenshot of a given browser page, or a specific region of it. - Wikalong
Embeds a wiki in the Sidebar of your browser, which corresponds to the current page you are viewing. - Zotero
This will help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. - Evernote
This extension provides a toolbar button and context menus to easily add a selection or an entire page to Evernote. - Zemanta
Content recommendations while you write. Zemanta helps you enhance your emails and blogs with relevant images, videos, links or tags. - Capture Fox
You can capture your screen and record your voice to make screencasts (tutorials, e-lessons, etc.). - YouTube Toolbar
YouTube Toolbar lets you easily search, browse, share, and download your favorite videos from YouTube! Finally, its the toolbar you’ve been waiting for and it simply works. - FoxLingo
Translate web pages and text, learn languages, auto translate, and much more. Supports 53 languages and 36 free online translators. - BEEweb
Beeweb.org is portal to a series of multiplayer educational games. Spellbee.org is about literacy, Moneybee is financial literacy and algebra, Patternbee regards spatial reasoning, etc. - CustomizeGoogle
CustomizeGoogle is a Firefox extension that enhance Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask.com, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam). - Wolfram Alpha Google
Display Wolfram Alpha results in Google searches. No need to switch search engines when you can use both at once.
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CoComment could also be helpful. That plugin tracks all your comments and informs you when there is a reply. Quite nice if you want to stay up to date with discussions.
ReplyDeleteI also think that RadItLater is a nice addon for educators. It can be used to mark articles or wbesites for later reading. You can also synchronise your reading list with other PCs. So when you just don't have time to read an interesting article at the moment don't bother creating temporary bookmarks, use this addon.