What is online annotation?

                              How is the process social?

                                             How does it change our practices of online research?

• Troy Hicks on Rethinking Research
• Dean, Jeremy, and Katherine Schulten. “Skills and Strategies | Annotating to Engage, Analyze, Connect and Create.” The New York Times Learning Network, November 12, 2015. http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/skills-and-strategies-annotating-to-engage-analyze-connect-and-create/
• Using Diigo for social bookmarking and annotation to motivate reading and make the research process social -- (see EdLeadership article March 2010) 
• Kids won't read? Make it social - EdLeadership article that describes online reading using Diigo
  
• Social bookmarking and annotation-- teaching resources using Diigo.  Featured at Digitally Speaking Wiki by 6th grade teacher William Ferriter  (See also his 6th Grade Science Nonfiction Reading Wiki).  NOTE: "Shared Annotation Roles" for group annotation activities and other teacher-friendly resources (PDF of role descriptions and checklist) (PDF of rubric).
  
• Annotations in the ELA classroom --  2013 entry from English teacher Kaitlin Tucker's blog. Describes how she uses annotations to meet CCSS reading standards for analyzing complex texts.

Examples of annotated texts:

nonfiction:

• "A Letter to My Son" by Ta-Nehisi Coates- 2015 political essay in The Atlantic annotated using Hypothesis
• “Curriculum Integration and The Disciplines of Knowledge” James A. Beane - Using NowComment
• Hicks, T. (2018) "The Next Decade of Digital Writing" - annotated (using Hypothes.is) by various literacy teachers and researches.  Annotations are multimodal including words, videos, GIFs, memes, etc. 

literature:

• Of Mice and Men (Chapter 1) - Using Lit.Genius
  
• The Difficulty of Crafting a Shakespearean Sonnet - A.B. Schmidt - Using Lit.Genius
• To Build a Home by Cinematic Orchestra - analyzing/annotating song lyrics using Lit.Genius

visual texts:

• See visual annotations made by students in 545
  

Annotation tools and resources:

• Evernote (All Devices) ties in with the Evernote web service to add notes and read
• Hypothes.is https://hypothes.is,
• NowComment https://nowcomment.com
• Lit Genius http://lit.genius.com
• Of Mice and Men (Chapter 1)
• The Difficulty of Crafting a Shakespearean Sonnet - A.B. Schmidt
• To Build a Home by Cinematic Orchestra - analyzing song lyrics using Lit.Genius
  
• ezPDF Reader (AS, iOS) paid for app but feature rich including multimedia
• iAnnotate (iOS, AS) paid for app but feature rich including multimedia
• Rewordify.com - website that annotates a text for you by inserting definitions of words that are deemed difficult
• Adobe Reader (All Devices)
• Kindle Reading App (All Devices)
• 5 Free tools for annotating texts online
  
• social bookmarking in plain English
• de.lic.ous -- digg -- diigo -- Zotero

• MPS annotation guide for secondary students