Here are three important Chrome extensions students can use to clip web content. These are particularly helpful when doing research. They allow you to take quick screenshots, record your thoughts and notes, annotate web content and share with others or save it to your cloud accounts (e.g Evernote, Google Drive). For a variety of other options to create screencasts and curate web content , check out this page.
1- Evernote Web Clipper
This is an Evernote add-on that allows you to instantly clip web pages and save them to your Evernote account. You can use tags to organize your notes. Other interesting features provided by this extension include: highlighting text in any web page, using callouts to draw attention, sharing clipped content through email or via a unique URL.
2- TechSmith Snagit
This is another excellent extension for clipping web content and creating screenshots. ‘With TechSmith Snagit for Google Chrome™ you can take screenshots or screen recordings of anything on your screen including your browser, desktop, and applications you have running. TechSmith Snagit for Google Chrome™ will share your screen, so you can share your ideas and insights with anyone you’d like…Get the Most out of Your Google Drive™ View, and mark up your captures anywhere, thanks to the integration Snagit for Google Chrome™ has with Google Drive™.’
3- Clipular
‘Clipular is a camera & collection tool for the web. Think screen capture mixed with bookmarking. It lets you share and group any screenshots in chrome. If you stumble upon something on the web, such as a Facebook comment, a Tweet, a Youtube video, just clip them to your clipboard in Clipular.’
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