Web Clipping Services
A variety of web-based text clipping and social annotation services provide great research tools for faculty and students. Since you can create groups (private or public), this might make a great tool for class or group projects. Because these are social applications, you can share your bookmarks and notes with others, and you can also learn what others who share your interests have bookmarked and highlighted. Typically these web applications work through your browser (you will need to install a plugin or extension) and allow you to
- highlight selected text (as you would with a highlight marker)
- save clippings (no need to cut-and-paste; simply select text and click the save button)
- add sticky notes or annotations to clippings
- bookmark favorite pages or websites (clippings are saved even if link is broken)
- create tags for your bookmarked sites
- search your bookmarked sites or the sites of others who share your interests
- share your clippings and notes with others (create public or private interest groups)
Read more about web clipping and annotation at Lifehacker and Elearning Service.
Zotero
Zotero is an easy-to-use yet powerful research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects), and lets you share the results of your research in a variety of ways. An extension to the popular open-source web browser Firefox, Zotero includes the best parts of older reference manager software (like EndNote)—the ability to store author, title, and publication fields and to export that information as formatted references—and the best parts of modern software and web applications (like iTunes and del.icio.us), such as the ability to interact, tag, and search in advanced ways. Zotero integrates tightly with online resources; it can sense when users are viewing a book, article, or other object on the web, and—on many major research and library sites—find and automatically save the full reference information for the item in the correct fields. Since it lives in the web browser, it can effortlessly transmit information to, and receive information from, other web services and applications; since it runs on one’s personal computer, it can also communicate with software running there (such as Microsoft Word). And it can be used offline as well (e.g., on a plane, in an archive without WiFi).
Go to Zotero.
Clipmarks
Forget bookmarks! Now you can clip the best parts of the page. Save what you clip, post it on your blog, send it to your friends or share it with everyone on the Clipmarks site.
Download the clipmarks plugin and install it on your browser (IE or Firefox). A “clip” button will be placed on your browser's toolbar, which brings up the full clipmarks toolbar. You can then select text (images or video) from a webpage: save it, share it, email it to a friend, send it to your blog, or print it. Clippings can be private or posted for the public.
Go to Clipmarks.
Google Notebook
Clip useful information. You can add clippings of text, images and links from web pages to your Google Notebook without ever leaving your browser window.
Organize your notes. You can create multiple notebooks, divide them into sections, and drag-and-drop your notes to stay organized.
Get access from anywhere. You can access your Google Notebooks from any computer by using your Google Accounts login.
Publish your notebook. You can share your Google Notebook with the world by making it public.
You need to register for a Google account, which will give you access not only to Notebook, but a host of other applications and services. You can then download the browser extension for either IE or Firefox (Safari is not supported). An icon at the bottom of you browser will give you access to all of Notebooks functions.
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Go to Google Notebook.
Diigo
Diigo (dee'go) is about “Social Annotation”. By combining social bookmarking, clippings, in situ annotation, tagging, full-text search, easy sharing and interactions, Diigo offers a powerful personal tool and a rich social platform for knowledge users, and in the process, turns the entire web into a writable, participatory and interactive media.
The social annotation service introduced by Diigo allows users to add highlights and sticky notes, in situ, on any web page they read. Imagine a giant transparency overlaying on top of all the web pages. Users can write on the transparency as they wish, as private notes or public comments. And they can read public comments on the transparency left by other readers of the same page, and hear their “two cents” and interact with them.
The Diigo plugin is available for a variety of browsers (Firefox, Flock, IE). Installing this plugin gives you a complete set of Diigo tools. You can also drag a "diigolet" bookmarklet to your bookmark bar or save it as a bookmark. One click opens up a limited Diigo toolbar.
Diigo allows you to select text for highlighting, save text as a clipping, and add notes. You can create public or private groups and share your annotations. It is also possible, then, to review the bookmarks and annotations of others.
(Screencast not affiliated with Diigo)
Go to Diigo.
i-Lighter
Welcome to i-Lighter! A one-click way to:
* Save only what matters to you
* Add your annotations
* Find it when you need it
* Simply include it in your email, documents and blogs
* Most importantly, never lose any of it
It’s FREE and as easy as using a yellow highlighter and a stack of post-it notes. Take a moment and click on our demo or download i-Lighter and see how easy it is to use!
Register and download the application for either MS Explorer or for Firefox. The necessary icons are then placed in your browser's toolbar. i-Lighter works only on PCs.
Go to i-Lighter.
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