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Collaborative Annotation as Discussion Forum 2.0

Hypothesis Canvas Webinar, April 2017

http://bit.ly/canvash

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Jeremy Dean

@dr_jdean / jeremydean@hypothes.is

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Webinar Plan

  1. Introduction
  2. The Hypothesis Project
  3. Annotation as Education Technology
  4. The Hypothesis App/Demo
  5. Hypothesis Canvas Integration
  6. Practicum
  7. Teacher Roundtable
  8. Coming Features
  9. Sustainability Model
  10. Call to Action

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The Hypothesis Project

Not Just Another Ed-Tech Company

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Mission

Build, deploy and nurture an open, interoperable annotation layer over the Web, enabling a conversation over all knowledge.

Do it for the benefit of citizens as a non-profit with a sustainable income model.

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Funders

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Hypothesis Terms of Service

Content license

You agree to freely dedicate your public contributions to the public domain or, where that is not possible because of law, to freely license your publications, under the Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain Dedication (contributions prior to October 27, 2014 were made without reference to specific licensing terms). The CC0 Public Domain Dedication allows free copying, modification, distribution and performance of your contributions, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. We note that Creative Commons has provided additional public domain guidelines that we strongly support. Most importantly, that if you use contributed content that you give credit and attribution, provide a link to the original source, protect the reputation of authors, contribute discoveries back, and generally share knowledge in an open way. Annotations made privately or using our groups feature are ​not​ in the public domain or licensed under Creative Commons as with public contributions. The individual user reserves all rights provided by copyright law for their content created privately or within groups.

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“Annotating All Knowledge” Vision

Within three years, most scholarly works -- books, articles and other digital media, new and old -- will come with the capability for readers to create, share, and discover annotations from colleagues, classmates, authors, friends and experts around the globe.

This technology will be open source, federated, and based on open standards.

Just like the Web.

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Coalition

Members

Over 70 of the leading academic publishers, platforms and libraries are bringing web annotation to the world’s scholarship over the next 3 years.

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Annotation

An Ancient Education Technology

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We have all seized the white perimeter as our own

and reached for a pen if only to show

we did not just laze in an armchair turning pages;

we pressed a thought into the wayside,

planted an impression along the verge.

– Billy Collins, “Marginalia

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Online, a book can be a gathering place, a shared space where readers record their reactions and conversations. Those interactions ultimately become part of the book too, a kind of amplified marginalia.

– Jennifer Howard, “With 'Social Reading,' Books Become Places to Meet” (2012)

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The Hypothesis App

A Browser Extension

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Sign up for an hypothes.is account:

Confirm account via email.

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Download the browser extension:

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General Hypothesis Resources:

  • Profile pages

  • Creating groups

  • Group home pages

  • And much more at the Hypothesis Teacher Resource Guide

  • Student Resource Guide

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Hypothesis Canvas Integration

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Why annotate in the LMS?

  • The LMS is where course materials live

  • Discussion forums are dead

  • Added Hypothesis functionality within Canvas

  • Start in the LMS, move on to the Web...

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What can you do with the Hypothesis app?

  • Configure Hypothesis to appear on readings
    • PDFs uploaded to a course
    • External public web pages (by URL)

  • Create annotation “Assignments”

  • Grade and offer private feedback on annotation sets

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Configure Hypothesis to appear on readings:

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Create annotation “Assignments”:

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Grade/offer feedback on annotation sets:

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How?

  • Ask a Canvas admin to install the Hypothesis app in your course

  • Install the app yourself by generating a Canvas API token

  • Hypothesis will appear as an “External Tool” in your course

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Hypothesis Canvas Resources:

  • Install Guide
    • Canvas admin
    • Canvas instructor

  • Teacher Guide

  • Student Guide

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Other Integrations

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Let’s Annotate!

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Follow these steps to annotate:

  1. Sign up for an Hypothes.is account

  • Choose a reading and create an annotation

  • Submit your annotation as homework

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1. Sign up for hypothes.is:

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2. Visit the Canvas course for the webinar:

Join/enroll in the course

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2. Join the private group for the webinar:

Linked above and in Canvas course navigation

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3. Choose a reading, create an annotation:

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Toggle the scope selector to Canvas Webinar:

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4. Submit an annotation as assignment:

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Toggle the scope selector:

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Create an annotation:

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Reply to an annotation:

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Teacher Roundtable

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Hypothesis in the Classroom

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Educational Benefits

Active, deep reading

Multimodal writing

Learning management

Collaboration, discussion

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A Larger Mission

Empower students to produce knowledge within and beyond the classroom

Promote intellectual conversation and civic engagement across the Web

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I finally found a way to get students to read, and engage with one another about their reading, before class.

- Andrew Martin, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder

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Hypothesis is my literary Facebook. When I’m reading I sometimes wonder, ‘Does anyone actually understand this? Am I crazy?’ With this brilliant tool I know I’m not alone.

– Shannon Griffiths, undergrad at Plymouth State University

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Coming Features

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Authentication

  • Stage 1 - Fall 2017
    • Automatic account generation via Canvas LTI
    • Auto-login

  • Stage 2 - Winter 2017
    • Group enrollment based on course/sections

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Privacy

  • Stage 1 - Current
    • Privacy by obscurity via group link

  • Stage 2 - TBD
    • Invite-only groups

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Accessibility

  • Stage 1 - Fall 2017
    • Readability of annotations with screenreaders
    • VPAT available at hypothes.is

  • Stage 2 - Winter 2017
    • Writeability of annotations with screenreaders

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Sustainability Model

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Sources of Sustainability

  • Grants from:
    • Foundations, like Helmsley, Knight, Mellon, Omidyar, Shuttleworth, Sloan
    • Philanthropists

  • Contributions from:
    • Individuals, like you
    • Campaigns, like Kickstarter

  • Sustaining partnerships with:
    • Publishers, like scholarly presses
    • Educational institutions, like K12 districts, colleges, & universities
    • Platforms, like browsers and e-readers

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Sustaining Partnerships in Education

  • For organizations that make substantial use of Hypothesis technologies and services

  • To help steward the technologies, services, practices, and communities that support and advance open web annotation for everyone

  • Cost: $1/FTE/year, with a minimum of $2,000/year

  • Sustaining services: implementation, hosting, and user guidance and support

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Sustaining Services

  • Implementation
    • Integration with LMSs or other appropriate platforms
    • Single sign-on (SSO) for your users
    • Training and resources to support implementation

  • Hosting
    • Host all software and data necessary for an enterprise annotation service in a persistent, secure online environment

  • User Guidance & Support
    • Tier one and two support for students, faculty, and administrative users

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Call to action

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How you can get involved

  • Sign up for an Hypothesis account

  • Become a Hypothesis Canvas app alpha tester
    • Canvas app install instructions

  • Pilot Hypothesis campus integration at your school (Fall 2017)
    • Sign up for more information

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Jeremy Dean

@dr_jdean / jeremydean@hypothes.is