Our Scrible.com Product Review

New GREAT deals at Scrible.com!

Do your kids do a lot of research as part of their homeschooling?  If they do, I have a super recommendation for you – Scrible.com. Scrible (for grades 6-adult) offers tools to save info, manage, annotate, share the web, and MORE.  Specifically, Scrible.com lets you:

In addition, Scrible can be used for more than just research papers (as an example, Scrible can be used as a real-time collaboration tool for concurrent reading and text analysis).  Really, the options are endless.

Scrible.com is a very important tool, for the following reasons:

• Writing a research paper requires many tasks and a variety of skills.  A student must curate, annotate, cite, organize, write and collaborate.  These tasks are hard to track and quantify – but easy with Scrible.
• 60% of secondary students are poor researchers.  50% of high school students aren’t ready for college writing.  Scrible helps kids with research and with writing.
• Scrible automates mundane tasks – freeing up time for critical thinking. WOW!
  
• Quite literally (this is not an over-statement), Scrible brings research and the process of writing papers into the modern age.

And Scrible is a Google for Education Partner.

Check out the Scrible overview below.

Scrible.com Product Review – With Scribles, students can write better papers faster due to the following:

Scrible.com Product Review – What do I like this product/service?

• Scrible offers SO MUCH!
• It’s a time-saver.  Gotta love that!  🙂
• Scrible helps kids become college and career ready.
• Scrible streamlines research processes.  I’m a fan of streamlining, aren’t you?
• It provides personalized learning.
• And project-based learning.
• It’s interactive – I appreciate how others can share and respond in real time. When I find a great resource, I always want to share it, don’t you?
• There’s an outline editor.  I can write a super research paper – but I admit, I never, ever utilized outlines in the process.  So, teaching outlining to my kids, was a bit difficult.  Not now!
• Students can have multiple libraries for different papers/projects they might be working on.
• It’s easy to search the libraries for specific info.  The Scrible tagging feature is especially nice.
• This means students NEVER lose info – or search through piles of paper looking for a quote, that they know they have….somewhere….
• Not only can students add online resources to their library, they can also add books and offline resources as well.
• There’s a citation capture function that’s amazing.  Now, it’s easy-peasy to footnote, and to make a bibliography.  Think about that for a minute.  Did you ever think footnoting was easy?  I mean, come on….Ibid?
• The program constantly auto-saves to the cloud, so students never lose their work.  That’s wonderful!
• The Scrible Writer, a Google Docs Add-on helps transfer research into the paper the student is writing in Google Docs.  Scrible Writer also lets students view/insert outlines and easily view/edit bibliographies.
• Students really like it.

• Scrible is constantly updating their program and adding new, time-saving features.  This includes researching tools, as well as overall interfaces – to improve Scrible’s look and feel, layout, navigation and functionality.
• Scrible supports co-teaching, which can be of benefit to a co-op.
• It’s easy to install.
• There’s a lot of help along the way, if you need it – including a Getting Started Tour, Edu Guides, blog posts, youtube videos and more.
• It’s free but you can upgrade if you’d like to, a paid service.

In Conclusion

I’m not sure a product review can do this product justice.  It’s that good!  I urge you to try the free version, and if you love it as much as I do, upgrade.  🙂

Did you like this Scrible.com product review? We really enjoyed writing it for you. You can check out our other reviews at https://www.howtohomeschool.net/curriculum-reviews