Today, a great site was shared via Twitter - Awesome Highlighter (
http://www.awesomehighlighter.com/). I posted this site to our local intranet email (
FirstClass), and received the following "raves" almost immediately, from teachers.
My initial FC post:
You're doing your lesson planning for next week, and you want to include a webpage reference for your students on your classroom website - something you're going to link to, and they need to read a portion of...how do you call attention to JUST the part of the webpage's text that you want the students to read (and hopefully reflect on)?
Try out: http://www.awesomehighlighter.com/
You go there, copy and paste the website URL that you want to "highlight" into the tool's URL field, and it takes you to that page. Then you highlight the text you want to call attention to, add any notes you want to, and save it. The site then gives you back a URL to your "marked up" page. It's not actually marking the ACTUAL webpage you've selected, but a copy of it.
As an example, here's my work webpage, with a section of text highlighted and a note added - http://awurl.com/Aem764H54 (check it out).
You could then take that URL and copy/paste it into your lesson plans on your SchoolCenter site, and your kids would have access to that page AND JUST the text you're trying to call attention to!
This is really awesome! I just tried it! This will be VERY helpful to many teachers, especially if they know there is only part of a website you want to share! They won't have to spend extra minutes trying to find the part of the text they want to share. Thanks for sharing. :o)
Very Cool, Chris. I also like the fact that you can check the stats of the page to see how many times it has been viewed and from approximately where. This way, you have some idea about how many students are actually checking it out. I imagine I'll be using this site soon.
So, taking a lead from the second teacher reply, I did a little more investigation, and passed along information about how users of the site could look at the "stats" for their highlighted page(s):
The stats don't appear on the page easily, but if you start with this URL:
http://www.awesomehighlighter.com/page/stats
and then paste the shortcut to the page you made (in this case, mine), onto the end, to make: http://www.awesomehighlighter.com/page/stats/Aem764H54
then you can see the stats.
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