CLIPMARKS.COM
My students use school-provided laptops for research all the time. I work in special ed, and a lot of them have serious weaknesses in the area of organization. The internet and the laptops provide whole new areas in which it's complicated to stay organized. When doing research, this problem becomes acute. My students often unearth awesome stuff, then lose it by the next class. (They have flash drives, email, and a lot of other resources, but they don't consistently get the same computer, so they can't use bookmarks.)
Enter Clipmarks. Once you sign up for this free site (I know, I sound like a commercial), it puts a little green paperclip icon in your browser. Anytime you want to store information from a website, you click the clip, manipulate a bit to get some orange lines around what you want to save (sometimes tricky, but more often easy), and hit "DONE CLIPPING." You then are given the option to email, print, blog, or plain old save to your clipmarks homepage.
On your clipmarks homepage, everything is saved in a clear and orderly fashion. No more lost information/pictures/websites!
Okay, here's the truth - I haven't used this with my kids yet, but I'm about to. I have become a fanatical user myself, and I'm thoroughly happy with the benefits. I think it will really help my kids, both with research, web organization, general organization, and history class. I'll report back.
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That sounds really awesome...maybe I will start to use it! I'm so jealous that your students have laptops. My school is in the technology dark ages :( Kudos to you for teaching your students how to organize themselves on computers...it's a lifelong skill they'll probably use forever
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We're VERY lucky to have the laptops, I know. I think of my friends teaching in schools with fewer resources, and wonder if I should smuggle some computers out to them.
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