SimplyBox – Collaborative Research February 17, 2009
Posted by nitwit in Uncategorized.Tags: collaboration, simplybox
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SimplyBox is a free tool that allows you to take a screenshot of text or images on the web and save them into “boxes” or collections of related screenshots. These boxes can be organized and displayed with different views, and I can also share boxes or individual screenshots with colleagues.
As a teacher, I might add a box for a new project and then surf the web for a few resources that relate to that topic. Then I could share that box with students, having them look at the resources in the box (like giving them the URLS and directions on specifically which parts of that website to look at). All of the resources are right there, available at home or at school. Students can comment on the clipping, and they can visit the site from there if they need to.
I use SimplyBox with my Firefox browser, and there is a handy add-on toolbar to make it very easy to grab something from the screen and throw it in the appropriate box to be organized later.
Give it at try at Simplybox.com, then respond with creative ways that you are finding to use this tool.
