Monday, May 9, 2011

Scrible : Highlight, Annotate, share, and bookmark any webpage for free

Scrible is a great tool for highlighting, saving and annotating web pages . I am revising this tool because i know that educators are in such desperate need for tools to help them organize and make their time online beneficial . The purpose is to integrate technology into our teaching and foster our students learning .
Scrible allows you to annotate , highlight and bookmark web pages . It is very easy to use and does not need any extra technological knowledge to start using it .



Some features of Scrible

Here are the main features that Scrible offers to its users :
  • It is free to use

  • No install or download is required

  • It requires a sign up

  • It allows you to save web pages for later use

  • It lets you highlight and annotate any portion of a webpage

  • I lets you easily organize & find saved research with tags,legends & search

  • you can access research from anywhere because it's saved online in the cloud

  • It offers a bookmarklet that you can put in any browser

How can i get started using Scrible ?

Head over to Scrible main page
  1. Sign up for a free account

  2. Now that you have the bookmarket installed in your browser , anytime you are on a page that you want to bookmark and customize just click on the bookmarklet to launch a menu of bookmarking tools .

  3. You have the options to use highlighters , sticky notes . You can also use the font tool to customize it and change it the way you want .

  4. After you are done with the annotation and bookmarking you can save it and then share it with others .

Applications of Scrible in education

Teachers can use Scrible to annotate parts of web pages that they deem important for students learning . They can share them with some or all of the class . Students can use  this tool as it is secure and easy to use .  Teachers provide URLs for students and let them explore and extract the main parts using the Scrible techniques .
That’s it about Scrible : Highlight, Annotate, share, and bookmark any webpage for free.
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