Early this morning I stumbled across a neat site, Great Summary (thank you, Delicious). The website does exactly what the name suggests; it provides a great summary of text you paste in, or webpages whose URL you give it.
I’ve only tried a few pages, but the summary does seem pretty good. How well this website may summarize your pages probably depends a lot of how well written they were, but you’re probably not having your students learn from really disorganized websites anyways.
If this site works as well as my initial tests, it should be really useful helping weaker students glean information, or even stronger students working with material that’s a bit above their heads.
I’m looking for an excuse to play with this site.
3 Comments to 'A Pretty Great Summary'
November 25, 2008
Sensational post, I like your writing style! I’ve added http://befuddled.info/ to my feed reader, and will be reading your posts from now on. Just a quick question – did you design your header image yourself, or have it done professionally? If you had it done by a professional, who was it?
November 26, 2008
I’m not a big fan of this kind of technology. Being able to read and summarize information is a central skill in today’s world and I don’t like to see this turned over to computers.
November 26, 2008
I definitely know what you’re saying. I’m really only looking at this site as an aid for the weaker kids who would have trouble summarizing at the best of times.
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