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:

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

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