Web-based Annotation Tools

Have you ever wanted to add annotations to a web site so your students (or friends) will know exactly the portion of the site on which they should focus? There are several tools that can prove useful.

http://reframeit.com/ adds a panel to the right side of the web page (in your browser) to display annotations and comments.

http://www.diigo.com incudes an educator’s version that features bookmarks, annotations, highlights, sticky notes and more.

http://www.mystickies.com adds sticky notes (that is, “bookmarks on steroids”) to annotate web sites. Sticky notes enable you to do more than just link to a page; rather you can add notes and annotate to highlight the important paragraphs and features.