Digital annotation tools offer ways to foster collaboration and disciplinary literacy skills using a Reading Apprenticeship (RA) framework.
In this session Dr. Liz du Plessis shares her experiences using the free Hypothesis app in Canvas.
Hypothesis is an open-source, collaborative annotation software that enables students to highlight text on any web page or PDF, insert annotations, and reply to others. Annotations can include text, images, and video for multimedia storytelling and analysis. Hypothesis provides an engaging alternative to discussion forums for activities centered on a text.
Presentation Outcomes:
- How RA social learning strategies such as modeling and coaching can be supported by active faculty participation in annotation activities;
- How Hypothesis makes it possible for faculty to monitor reading comprehension using RA metacognitive routines such as “talking to the text,” in which students strategically annotate a text and receive feedback on their annotations; and
- How to integrate multimedia into Hypothesis annotations to support the RA “gallery walk” technique of showcasing text and graphics to get students to share their thinking.
Presenter:
- Dr. Liz du Plessis (Missouri Online)
Author
Liz du Plessis, M.Ed., Ph.D.
Dr. Liz du Plessis is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism (1999) and Indiana University's U.S. history doctoral program (2009). She discovered her love for distance education while teaching correspondence and online courses for Indiana University. She earned a master of education in information science and learning technologies from Mizzou in 2011. Since then, she has been an instructional designer for the California Community Colleges system, MU Health Care and Missouri Online. She now serves as an instructional design manager for Missouri Online and has taught as an adjunct online instructor for the MU Department of History.
