iCyte is a fantastic browser extension available for Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 7 and 8. iCyte gives you the ability to highlight and save sections of websites for later reference. When you save an item in iCyte an archive of the website is saved in your iCyte account. To organize your findings, you can create folders within your iCyte account. The short video embedded below demonstrates the basics of using iCyte.
Creating a Cyte using Firefox on a Mac from stephen foley on Vimeo.
This video is a longer overview of all of iCyte's features.
iCyte Overview from stephen foley on Vimeo.
Applications for Education
iCyte could be a fantastic tool for students to use to organize their web research.
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4 comments:
Hi,
it's a good tool but I prefer Zotero. A bit complex but excellent. What do you think about it?
www.zotero.org
Jocelyne
I was tempted by Zotero's promise of extracting bibliographical information. But it's just too complex and I find this gets in the way of being able to use it effectively. Not being able to work collaboratively and not having the data saved in the clouds are real disadvantages. Without these functions students are less likely to want to use this product for their research.
ICyte does it so much better. It's great for collaboration and its interface is simple and intuitive, without sacrificing back-end power. It's a real 'got to have' tool for research.
Thanks for your comment. I will try it this semester with my students.
The Zotero beta does let you sync data, storing it "in the cloud" & has groups to allow collaboration.
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