[MACEP] solution: saving websites

[Tim Chase]

A bit ago I asked here on MACEP about which is the best program to  
use for downloading webpages/sites.  Good responses came back (mostly  
offgroup) on what to use, but they didn't configure very well because  
I'm in a proxied environment at school and not when I go home.  But I  
found a tool today and I want to share it.

It's a Firefox extension called Scrapbook, and I don't think I'm  
overstating the situation when I say it's the coolest tool I've seen  
this year.  If you do a "save page as" command from the new dropdown  
menu it installs, you can tell it how many levels to copy from the  
site you are viewing, and I haven't even seen everything it can do  
with annotations and such.  What impressed me was that it dances well  
with the proxy and intelligently changes the links depending on which  
webpages it gets.  So once I have it on my Firefox and download my  
school webpage to 2 levels, I can turn off my wifi connection and  
surf around in that website until I go to 2 clicks away from the  
original page.  But if I turn my wifi back on, I can then click  
online to a third click away from the original because it didn't  
distort the <a href> link.

Superduper!  I think it will help me rest much easier when I'm  
needing the web to work for a lesson/presentation but I'm not  
confident about the connection, and also if I want to restrict my  
middle school darlings to a certain segment of the internet for some  
research or reading, I can point them to a server-based html file and  
restrict internet access.

~Tim

""Never confuse motion with action."  ~Benjamin Franklin
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Tim Chase
Technology / Reading
LaPine Middle School
Bend LaPine School District


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