I recently read an article in Education Week about online learning. I wasn’t interested in bookmarking the entire web page. However, there were a few quotations that I thought I’d like to keep for use in future discussions of the subject.
Clipmarks.com (http://clipmarks.com/) allows me to do just that… to save text clippings or even images and videos on a web page. So I clipped some comments that I wanted to keep and posted them to Delicious so I could access them later. I could also post them to FriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook, iGoogle, or a Netvibes home page.
I can view my clipping on my Clipmarks page. If I choose to make my clippings public, I can view them on the public Clipmarks page. I can post them to my blog—several blogging platforms are supported—or email them to friends or print them. Here’s the clips I posted to this blog.
clipped from blogs.edweek.org One must have a level of maturity that usually only comes with chronological age to engage in such a responsibility. Overall, I found the experience GREAT! I believe it helped me to grow intellectually in the way of technological intelligence and in my abstract and critical thinking. But I don't miss at all the distractions, the unavoidable traffic and parking, the need to make an appointment with a professor who is only available 3-5 pm twice a week. |
In order to use Clipmarks, I installed an extension for Firefox. Extensions are also available for Internet Explorer and Flock. To clip, I first click the green clip button. Then I highlight what I want and click the clip button to select it. When I have finished clipping, I click Done Clipping and choose what I am going to do with my clippings—save, blog, email, or print them.
I can follow someone by choosing him/her as a Guide. That way I can see what that individual clips.
I can place a widget of my clips to a MySpace page, blog, or other site. I chose to put a widget on my iGoogle page.
Why would I—or you—want to use Clipmarks? The testimonials listed on the Clipmarks page suggest these reasons:
- archive information
- store information that interests me
- stay up-to-date on a topic
- share ideas that I think are important
- clip and save part of a page
- clip and save text, graphics, and YouTube videos
- save directly to your blog
- e-mail something you just read to a friend
I also like being able to save portions of a web page to my Delicious account. When I pull up the information later when I’m researching a particular topic, I won’t have to re-read the entire page to find the information I wanted to keep.
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