Last updated on 31 July 2017
Scrible is an online tool that will allow you to save web pages when you search online.
Beyond the rather classic backup function, Scrible is mostly a web page annotation tool that will be very useful for organising and sharing your findings in the context of research work, for example.
Scrible is very easy to use from an extension to be installed on your browser. After you have registered, you can highlight, colour, subline, italics or bold any part of a text contained in a web page. This is done through a toolbar at the top of your page:
In addition to working directly on the text, Scrible allows you to add notes in the form of coloured repositionable notes to complete a passage with your comments. Especially handy to annotate an important passage.
Very practical function too Scrible allows you to easily share an annotated page by email. You can accompany the link with a comment to give the context of the excerpt. When the recipients receive your email, they will see your word and the link that will allow them to consult the page you have annotated and commented on.
The service finally offers you the possibility to save the web pages that you have annotated in a kind of personal library or you will be able to consult them again from any computer connected to the Internet. Scrible also works on iPad. During the backup you will be able to include tags to your notes to find them better.
In the classroom.
Scrible may be useful to a teacher in their research. It may also find its place in the Tice toolkit of a student who needs to search the web for a dissertation, for example.
Scrible's simple sharing function will also allow a teacher to share web content enriched with comments.
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