Monday, November 06, 2006

ScrapBook: Firefox Extension: Save OpenLearn Content

ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and manage the collection. Key features are lightness, speed, accuracy and multi-language support. Major features are:


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ScrapBook won 'Most Useful Upgraded Extension' prize in Extend Firefox Contest.
Extend Firefox Contest Winners


" There is also a not totally unrelated issue at the moment with OpenLearn content, in the sense that the URLs for the current materials appear not to be very stable (though I have been told this is something that will be addressed in the near future...) - so while the content may stay up there, it may not be at the place you bookmarked...

Anyway - printing out online materials is one way of getting a persistent copy of onine materials, as is downloading them - although when pages can only be saved one at a time this can be quite a time consuming process.

So this is one area where Scrapbook caught my interest - the ability to download very easily all the pages from a course. So for example, we could go to the index page of an OpenLearn course, which has links to all the course content pages from it, and use those links to download all the course information:" more here

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