ESC 18 - Taco Tech Tuesday

Parlay is an instructional tool, content creator, and service provider. Parlay helps teachers inspire meaningful and inclusive discussions in their classrooms. Create a discussion prompt, either your own or from a library of topics. Students then create their own unique responses which can include media. Students can then provide peer feedback. Responses and analytics are recorded for a deeper dive into analyzing the prompt. For a demo and more info click here.

Want to link students to a text? Even better, want to link them to a text and highlight a specific phrase, passage or even word? This extension allows for easily creating a special link to the currently selected text on a web page via the context menu. When opening such a special link, a compatible browser will scroll the selected text into view and highlight it. Now send students to a page and place emphasis on a specific phrase or paragraph. To add the Google Chrome extension click here.

We all do it, one moment we look up and have too many tabs open to even count. But we don't want to start closing tabs and lose the info we have open and forget it. This chrome extension can help. Whenever you find yourself with too many tabs, click the OneTab icon to convert all of your tabs into a list. When you need to access the tabs again, you can either restore them individually or all at once.

When your tabs are in the OneTab list, you will save up to 95% of memory because you will have reduced the number of tabs open in Google Chrome. To learn more or download this extension click here.

Liven up your emails, messages, and web documents. Emoji Keyboard is a free extension that lets you input emojis on the web browser of your computer. This Emoji Keyboard extension lets you input emojis right in a web browser. It also comes with extensive search functionality that helps easily find an emoji by keywords.

Click on the extension icon to invoke an emoji keyboard. You can even hover on emojis to see their meanings. And just click on an emoji to copy it to the clipboard & insert it. To learn more or to download the extension click here.

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Remember to submit a Technology Help Desk ticket for any technology needs or services. Email Technology at help@edlink18.net or call the Help Desk at (432)-561-4321.

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Coordinator of Instructional Technology and Analytics

Email: cenriquez@esc18.net
Location: 2811 La Force Blvd, Midland, TX 79706, USA
Phone: (432)- 567-3249

Chief Technology Officer

Email: critchie@esc18.net
Location: 2811 La Force Boulevard, Midland, TX, USA
Phone: (432)-567-3250