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"If you've been a Firefox user for a long time, you'll know it's hard to consider changing to Chrome. Yes, there's no doubt that there's some great Chrome features you'd love to try out, but how would I live without extension XYZ? It can't be done!"

Ready to move on from firefox yet?

Like Chrome, then you will need some of these beauties to make it even better!

Download VisualBee plugin onto your Microsoft PowerPoint VisualBee Enhance is an plug-in for Microsoft PowerPoint. VisualBee takes a plain PowerPoint™ presentation and automatically enhances it, creating an exciting and powerful showcase. VisualBee masters your content and selects appropriate graphics to enrich your PowerPoint™ presentation from the extensive VisualBee design bank or your own library.

This Digital Literacy Toolkit began with the premise that multimedia authoring, which is happening with the extensive use of PowerPoint in classrooms, must be taught as a skill, just as traditional text-based writing is taught. While teachers and students have become familiar with the technical skills required to use images in multimedia productions, they lack a critical language to determine whether an image or a sound is used appropriately.

Here, we bring you 20 indispensable web apps, which once you've tried, you'll never want to live without again. Most of the apps explored below are free, so there's nothing stopping you from giving them a go.

Simple Lessons in Saving and Borrowing Money Bank Jr. is an educational banking website designed for elementary school students. I discovered Bank Jr. through Donna Murray's excellent blog. Bank Jr. is an interactive website on which students can learn the in's and out's of banking. Bank Jr. has a glossary of terms, a help center, and savings wizards. Bank Jr. also provides students with a history of money and a look at how different countries use money. The teachers section of Bank Jr. provides an extensive glossary of terms and some lesson ideas. Bank Jr. does not provide full-length, detailed lesson plans, but it does provide PDF's of worksheets and handouts that teachers may find useful for teaching banking lessons.

Despite its name, not all the content on CoolMath.com is directly related to Math. In fact, their tag line is 'Math and Thinking games'. The Cool Math games site, (www.coolmath-games.com), has many great online games for gifted children. Take, for example, the ever popular Bloxorz, the Lemonade Stand Game, or Bloons Tower Defense. Each are maddeningly fun and addictive, but each are also designed to engage the thinking skills of gifted learners. Many teachers quickly turn to Cool Math when they are looking for extension activities for their fast finishers, and now you can too. Everything on the site is free to use. Read more: http://www.brighthub.com/video-games/family/articles/70813.aspx#ixzz0nVoYSMoo

As the self-styled 'puzzle playground' Smart-Kit.com offers plenty of opportunities for your students to explore and flex their mental muscles. There are some great games here that really set it apart from the other sites on this list. For instance, the physics games are very good, the adventure games are taxing, and the quick thinking games really give students the opportunity to perform under pressure. There are even some IQ test questions here that can be used as problems of the day or extension work. Some of my favorite brain games on this site are Truck Loader, Trafficator, and the amazing Little Wheel. Read more: http://www.brighthub.com/education/k-12/articles/106947.aspx#ixzz1EGaRJ6xx

With VoiceThread Mobile, all of your content is also available on the iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch®. Whether you're working from the Mobile App or from your web browser, experience the simplicity and flexibility you expect from VoiceThread. Download the App and sign into your account to: Capture images from your camera or upload from your photo library Flip through slides with the flick of a finger and annotate while you narrate Share as easily as sending an email Receive notifications for new comments on your VoiceThreads Access the extensive catalog of existing content on VoiceThread.com