Awesome Highlighter :Highlight and share in education

Awesome Highlighter is a practical web2.0 tool . It allows you to highlight text on a web page and then gives you a short link to the highlighted page . With Awesome Highlighter , you can instantly share important parts of any webpage with your friends, colleagues, and students.

Here is how to use Awesome Highlighter:

First, log on to Awesome Highlighter main page and paste the URL of the page you want to highlight and click on “Highlight Page”

Now select the text you want to share and it will automatically be highlighted . Click on “Done” . You can also add annotations to your highlights by clicking on “ add a note”. A short link will be generated for you to share with others.

For people using Firefox , there is a very useful add-on you can add to your browser toolbar to easily highlight whatever you read without having to get back to Awesome Highlighter main page .