How a Student can Usage of Chromebooks in the Classroom

Educationists consider Chromebooks as easy and convenient educational tools. To empower the classrooms with internet assistance, educationists opine to make Chromebooks an essential element of the classroom. Now, the teachers may have queries about the usage of these Chromebooks in the classroom. Chromebooks come with diverse usages and they fulfill almost all the educational needs of the students. 

Explain A Lesson in a Better Way with Google Assistance

Chromebooks help the teachers to explain the lessons in a better way. Actually, Chromebook is like a laptop and it runs on Google’s Chrome OS. This is a web-based OS and internet connection is needed throughout to use a Chromebook. 

Now, internet has become an important element of education as teachers/students prefer to make a Google search wherever they are stuck. Using a Chromebook in the classroom means empowering the classroom with everything of Google. Teachers can take help of Google to show something that is not given in the book. Students on the other hand can get the answers to their queries with Chromebooks easily. 

Chromebooks allow the Google apps too and using these Google apps, a lot of things can be done. Apart from Google docs, Google sheets, and Google slides, candidates can use 

• Google Hangouts to chat and video call
• Google calendars to schedule anything
• Google bloggers to create their own blogs
• Google forms to create a survey
• Google meeting to conduct a meeting with 100 participants
• Google earth to get the 3D map view of the world
• Google Jamboard to collaborate with others on a virtual whiteboard

Along with all these, candidates get the security of Google and they can save anything on the drive. Plus, they are free to take help of chrome browser and YouTube. All these will improve the learning of the students to a great extent.

Get Creative with Your Ordinary Slideshows

Chromebook not just allow Google to empower the learners and educators. It also offers creativity to all the users - therefore, the teachers will get a chance to become creative as much as they want. In terms of creativity, slideshows can be developed in different ways. With Chromebooks, students, as well as teachers, can add a tinge of creativity to their presentations by adding narratives. 

For this task, the users simply need to create the images based on the slides and narratives to each one. It helps the students in improving their visual and verbal skills. Though it will initially take some time, once the procedure is clear, it will be a smart and engaging activity for Chromebook users. 

Make the Most of Multimedia

In the conventional mode of learning, the learners and educators are mostly book-dependent. But multimedia makes the learning process more exciting. A Chromebook allows the user to use multimedia in the best possible way. Here a candidate can get the facilities like voice recording, voice typing, video recording, video editing, video publishing, image modifying, and much more. This is why Chromebooks are much more than any word processor or search engine. These Chromebooks are compact devices to transform a classroom. 

Design The Images With Narratives 

Students who want to get higher scores in their assignments always take help of designed images to impress the teachers. Chromebooks allow the teachers to impress the students by making the ordinary images into something extraordinary. 

Actually, anything represented with a picture is remembered for a long time. So, teachers can design pictures and put important content in them to help the students in their learning. It is possible to insert and link any object in the image with the educational apps in a Chromebook. This will help the students a lot in learning a difficult subject. 

Collaborate

With a Chromebook, collaboration becomes very smooth. Chromebooks are like Google chrome web browsers in the form of a desktop. As it is powered by Google, signing in the Gmail ID is what users will need to get all their works. So, Chromebooks are equally useful when a candidate is not present physically in the classroom due to sickness or any other reason. They can access their works from their home or any other place with the Chromebook. 

Similarly, Chromebooks can be used during online learning or virtual classes. 

Along with these, some features of Chromebooks deserve mention. Chromebooks come with 100GB place in Google Drive and users can save unlimited works in them. These Chromebooks are also safe and secure as the files are automatically saved in cloud, not in the device itself. Chromebooks offer distraction-free learning too by preventing a number of apps to install in it. However, a number of Android apps and Google Apps for education are allowed in it. 

Plus these are not very expensive and users can easily afford this easy-to-use and easy-to-manage device to make the classrooms a better place to learn. 

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