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#AnnoConvo

A Conversation about �Annotation, Literacy, and Learning

Dr. Antero Garcia

Dr. Remi Kalir

I Annotate | June 24, 2021

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what are the rites of annotation?

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what are the rites of annotation?

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annotation expresses power

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“As a resource that may be authored and leveraged across texts and social settings, annotation expresses power on behalf of myriad constituencies and for various ideological ends.”

annotation expresses power

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“Annotation--like a megaphone, tweet, spray paint, or poster--is a tool used purposefully.”

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“Annotation cannot be read as an apolitical and objective practice when it has enabled annotators to continuously (re)inscribe preference and power across texts and contexts.”

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how do learners write annotation?

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who has the right to annotation?

Permission of O’Hare

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Du Bois, The Freedom to Learn, 1949

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“Of all the civic rights for which the world has struggled and fought for five thousand years, the right to learn is undoubtedly the most fundamental.”

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the rites of to write as the right to

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the rites of to write as the right to

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the rites of to write as the right to

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the rites of to write as the right to

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the rites of to write as the right to

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annotation is an �everyday literacy practice

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annotation is an �everyday literacy practice

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annotation is intertextual:�what discourses can learners join, remix, resist?

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annotation is multimodal:�what modes of communication amplify agency?

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annotation is dialogic:�how might learners read & (re)write their world?

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annotation is counternarrative:�how can learners counterstory injustice?

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an everyday literacy practice

intertextual

multimodal

dialogic

counternarrative

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annotation as participatory scholarly communication that can democratize �knowledge construction

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write in our book

because annotation is digital media

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PubPub open peer review in summer 2019

25 annotators | 491 annotations | 20,275 words

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write in our book

join the #AnnoConvo

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write in our book

join the #AnnoConvo

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exploring the historic, creative, civic, and disciplinary qualities of annotation

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