Both Kerry and Karen have kept us mindful of students who do not have high speed internet connections so that viewing content offline can be an important way for them to do their online course work.

thanks to a link in today's OLDaily Newsletter from Stephen Downes, I found a GREAT utility that allows you to download an entire website and save it for offline viewing. this is FREE software, available for Windows and Macintosh (Kerry, there might be something better than this for Mac, but it is the best Windows utility like this I have ever seen).

if you are building a website for your course, but are worried about students having access to that content offline, you can recommend this software to them.

here is a blurb from the website: httrack.com

HTTrack is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads.

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Posted by Laura Gibbs to OU...Online at 6/11/2004 09:20:44 AM