Room With A View

The folks on the Seedlings Podcast were talking about Google Notebook so I installed it yesterday and have been playing around with it. It’s an extension for Firefox and Internet Explore that let’s a person copy and paste text from a webpage into their Google Notebook without leaving the page. (No extension for Safari at this point.) It has huge potential for kids doing research. They can be working at home, at school, or a friend’s house and still have access to their notes.

Of course plagiarism and making sure that kids write things in their own words are issues but they have been for a while. (People have been pasting text into word-processors for years.) It looks pretty good.