For those of you using or considering social or collaborative annotation in your courses, Hypothes.is hosts web-based events offering tips and training. Hypothes.is has a good handle on how various disciplines teach, so their events are worth attending.
Even if you’ve started the semester with online asynchronous discussions, you can swap one or two weeks’ discussion out, in order to try out collaborative annotation. Let your students know it’s an experiment and solicit their feedback. If you need to cancel a classroom discussion, a social annotation of a PDF-based document is also a good, fairly lightweight replacement.
Here’s the event lineup for March:
- Grading Hypothesis-enabled readings: This workshop will walk through not only how to grade, but the intent and purpose of grading annotations in Hypothesis-enabled readings. The workshop will take place on Monday, March 1 at 10:30 a.m. PST. Click here for more information.
- Using multimedia in annotations: This workshop will discuss how to add multimedia as annotations, and offer ideas for embedding images and videos. There are two sessions, one on Wednesday, March 3 at 10:00 a.m. PST and the second on Monday, March 22 at 11:00 a.m. PST.
- Creative ways to use social annotation in your courses: Our team will lead participants in a discussion about how collaborative annotation with Hypothesis can be used in their particular disciplines and dovetail with their specific teaching and learning objectives. Join us on Wednesday, March 17 at 10:00 a.m. PST.
- Using Hypothesis with small groups: This workshop focuses on the options for using Hypothesis in small groups, and it will cover how social annotation can be used to create a more collaborative learning environment. This event will be Tuesday, March 23 at 11:30 a.m. PST. Click here for more information.
Submitted by: Tyler Kron-Piatek, academic technologist, COLI
