Multimedia in Chrome

Great for music composition, podcasting and more. You can add loops, real instruments, pre-recorded tracks, etc. Best feature is the ability to collaborate with others on a composition. Also works on mobile via the Soundtrap app.

• GarageBand ==> SoundTrap, AudioTool, AudioSauna

• Sibelius ==> Flat.io, Noteflight

• Audacity ==> Twisted Wave, Beautiful Audio Editor

Wevideo is by far the best option for editing video in Chrome, and has virtually no competition. It can do everything you'd expect from a non-linear video editor - trims, edits, transitions, audio, titles and more. With the paid version you can even do ChromaKey (greenscreen) and screen recording. It plays nicely with Drive too.

• iMovie, Adobe Premiere Pro & Rush, Final Cut ==> Wevideo

• Also available on Android for mobile video editing

LucidPress is a full featured pro-grade desktop publisher that can produce output for both print and screen. Simple to use, but powerful in what it can do.

• Microsoft Publisher, Adobe InDesign ==> LucidPress

• Also check out Adobe Comp on Android in Chrome

LucidPress is FREE for educational use. For more information go to www.lucidpress.com/pages/usecase/education

There are quite a few good cloud-based options for editing photos online, depending on just how sophisticated you need to be. If it's just cropping, adjusting brightness and contrast, etc, there are lots of simple options. (The photo editor in ChromeOS is actually pretty good for the simple stuff) But if you want to get fancy, Polarr is hard to beat!

• Photoshop ==> Pixlr Editor, Fotor

• Photoshop Lightroom ==> Polarr

Gravit (now Gravit Designer) has grown into an amazingly full featured vector graphic tool, with many of the same features as the industry standard tools in common use. If you want to do more than you can do in Google Drawings, this is the next tool to try.

Adobe Illustrator ==> Gravit Designer

Adobe Spark is actually three different tools - Spark Post (graphic design, posters, social media headers, etc), Spark Page (beautifully designed webpages), and Spark Video (simple to create narrated slideshows as videos). The core benefit is extreme ease of use, fast production and a beautiful end product.

Screencastify is a Chrome Extension, and a brilliantly simple way to capture your screen (and your webcam too if you choose) to produce powerfully effective screencasts. Use it for flipping your classroom, creating tutorial videos, showing your thinking and reasoning, explaining how to do something, and a million other uses.

Originally an iOS only app, Book Creator is now available for Chrome. It features all the same capabilities, including the ability to create digital books, add images and text, add audio, and then export as an ePub format eBook. Offers amazingly simply opportunities for student publishing and is a great platform for students to really show their learning.