Social Annotation – The Learning & Applied Innovation Digital Garden

January 4, 2024

Social Annotation Roles for Course Readings

The social annotation tool Hypothes.is can be used to foster discussions of readings outside of class meetings. Like in-person discussions, a social annotation activity for students can benefit from some structure to guide the ways students engage in making comments and replying to their peers. For example, faculty may “seed” articles with their own annotations so that students aren’t the...

Learning/Teaching

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August 7, 2023

Use Hypothes.is to Collaboratively Annotate YouTube Videos

The social annotation tool Hypothes.is has recently enabled the ability to annotate YouTube videos. YouTube videos. Note that this feature only works for YouTube videos that have a transcript. The annotations will appear on the transcript that appears alongside the video. Follow these instructions to enable Hypothes.is in YouTube videos within your Moodle course. Some instructional uses of this new...

How-To/Resources/Teaching

March 23, 2023

Social Annotation in the Age of AI

I’ve been following how Hypothes.is is responding to the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT. I appreciate that Hypothes.is is leaning into the practice of social annotation as a way to support the academic processes of reading, thinking and writing now that students can also access ChatGPT. In fact, the resources shared below help to illuminate how engaging with ChatGPT...

Articles of Interest/Digital Life/Resources

October 21, 2022

Activity Design Ideas for Social Annotation and Hypothes.is

I previously posted a showcase of webpages annotated with Hypothes.is, ideas for Hypothes.is assignments, instructions for creating Hypothes.is enabled readings in Moodle and other resources for getting started with social annotation and Hypothes.is. However, those resources only go so far in creating effective and engaging social annotation experiences for students. Simply requiring students to “make annotations using Hypothes.is” may not...

Resources

October 17, 2022

Getting Started with Social Annotation and Hypothes.is

Social annotation enables multiple people to collaboratively annotate an article found on the web. Many Colgate faculty have adopted the tool Hypothes.is to integrate social annotation into their course readings. Here is a curated a list of resources to guide faculty in getting started with social annotation and Hypothes.is. Example Annotated Articles It may be helpful to see examples of...

Resources

September 30, 2022

Social Annotation for Scientific Articles

Social annotation technology enables students and instructors to collaboratively add notes, images, media and other annotations to the margins of a reading. Annotations can be seen, read and commented on by all members of the course. Social annotation can transform reading into a collaborative activity, make students’ thinking visible and enhance students’ comprehension of readings (see Kalir et al. 2020...

Learning

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