Hypothes.is will allow us to share annotations that we make as we read our common class assignments. You may read and annotate directly into the reading, or you may read privately, mark up the article as you choose, and then come back to enter some annotations– whichever works for you.
Here are some examples of how classes have used hypothes.is for annotating reading materials.
The first two weeks are “practice”: Annotate and develop questions and ideas about how we’ll use this together.
Beginning week 3, you’re required to add at least 5 annotations (questions/ comments/ links/ images/ connections) to each reading.
Getting Started:
Hypothes.is works best with the extension in the Chrome browser, as you’ll read below. You can also You can launch the tool by appending “https://via.hypothes.is/” before a URL. To annotate this page, for example, you’d go to https://via.hypothes.is/https://beduc522.wordpress.com/hypothes-is-resources/
- First, go to Hypothes.is and set up an account.
- Download the Chrome extension.
- Second, join this private group for our course:
https://hypothes.is/groups/vRjdYedb/uwbed522
- Follow the Quick Start Guide for Students for good instructions on how to annotate. Note the directions for toggling to our group so that your annotations are private to our course members.
- I also recommend reading these tips on effective annotations.
- Some of our readings are PDFs in Google Drive rather than websites. Here’s a quick tutorial on annotating PDFs (“download” and then annotate on screen).
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