![]() And when there is no physical classroom space, as in online courses, annotation can be a means for the instructor to have a similar guiding presence and to create an engaging and engaged community of readers. In the classroom, students can be prompted to expand on points begun as annotations to jumpstart the conversation. Looking at responses to a question posed in the margin of a text is a great starting point for class discussion in a blended course. Or you can provoke student responses to the text through annotating with questions to be answered in replies to your annotations. This allows you to be the Norton editor of your course readings, but attentive to the particular themes of your course or local contexts of your classroom community. You can guide students through the reading with your annotations, offering context and possible interpretations. It’s about as close as you can get to the intimacy of in-class interaction online. ![]() ![]() One of the amazing aspects of social reading is that you can be inside the text with your students while they are reading, facilitating their comprehension, inspiring their analysis, and observing their confusion and insight. Teacher annotation as a question on Hypothesis. Pre-populate a text with questions for students to reply to in annotations or notes elucidating important points as they read. As always, feel free to contact me at to chat further about collaborative annotation! (For a more technical guide to using Hypothesis, see our tutorials on getting started here.) 1. My hope is that over the course of the coming semesters, Hypothesis will develop as a community of educators sharing their ideas, assignments, successes, and failures. I’d love to hear about your experiences with annotation in the classroom in notes and comments here or even in your own blog posts on Hypothesis. This list is by no means exhaustive–the larger point is that there are a lot of different ways for students and teachers to annotate. ![]() As annotation becomes social and media-rich as it does using Hypothesis and other web annotation technologies, these species of marginalia only further proliferate.įor those curious about integrating annotation exercises into an assignment or a course, below I outline ten practical ways that one might annotate with a class. But even within pre-digital student marginalia there can be a wide range of types of annotation from defining terms and explaining allusions to analytic commentary to more creative responses to the text at hand. Digital marginalia as such requires a redefinition or at least expanded understanding of what is traditionally meant by the act of “annotation.”īilly Collins’ poem “Marginalia” outlines various ways that people have annotated throughout history, including in formal education contexts. This becomes especially true when annotation is brought into the relatively public and collaborative space of social reading online. But annotation can also be a kind of end in itself, or at least more than a rest-stop on the way to intellectual discovery. As marginal note-taking it often is the basis for questions asked in class discussion or points made in a final paper. This will be the first semester during which Hypothesis has an active education department and so in the spirit these first days of the school year, I thought it might be worth exploring what we really mean when we say, “annotate.”Īnnotation is typically perceived as a means to an end. Though relatively new to Hypothesis, I’ve been making this pitch for a few years now, but in conversations with educators of late I’ve come to realize that we often mean different things by the word “annotate.” Annotation connotes something distinct in specific subject areas, at different grade and skill levels, and within certain teaching philosophies. It’s back-to-school season and I find myself once again encouraging teachers to discuss course readings with their students using collaborative web annotation technologies like Hypothesis.
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