University of Virginia Joins Hypothesis LMS Pilot
The University of Virginia is now the most recent school to sign up for the Hypothesis LMS Pilot Program and join the AnnotatED community.
Webinar: Research on Annotation in English and Composition
Join our free webinar Thursday 9 May 2019 on current and future research about how annotation is being used in the English and composition disciplines.
CSUCI and Davidson First to Join Hypothesis LMS App Pilot Program
We’re proud to announce that Cal State Channel Islands and Davidson College have joined as the first formal partners in the new Hypothesis LMS App Pilot Program.
Hypothesis Launches App to Bring Annotation to Learning Management Systems
Hypothesis announces support for collaborative annotation in all major Learning Management Systems with automatic provisioning of student accounts.
Collaborative Annotation in the Science Classroom
View the recorded conversation from our 17 Oct 2017 webinar about using annotation with secondary and higher education science students to build scientific habits of mind.
Annotating Papers for the ASA’s “Pedagogies of Dissent” Conference
Mural from facade of the Casa Juan Diego building, which houses the St Pius Church youth program, near 21st Street and Blue Island Avenue in the Pilsen area of Chicago. Lately, we at Hypothesis have been thinking about how web annotation can support collaboration and conversation leading up to and following up from [...]
The Pedagogy of Collaborative Annotation
Install our NEW, official Canvas app! In our first Canvas webinar introducing the Hypothesis app, we didn't have enough time to discuss the most interesting aspect of collaborative annotation: its pedagogy. On 19 April, we reconvened to focus more on what actually happens when working with this new technology in the classroom, hearing directly from educators currently implementing [...]
Hypothesis in Canvas: Collaborative Annotation as Discussion Forum 2.0
Let's be honest, discussion forums are a great idea—we all want students to engage more with their assigned readings and with their classmates. But “discussion” forums fail at precisely what they claim to do: cultivate quality conversation. Collaborative annotation assignments are a better way to encourage students to engage more deeply with course content and with each other. Using Hypothesis, instructors can make PDFs and web pages hosted in Canvas annotatable. You may have missed our live webinar on 4 April 2017, but you can watch the recording and view the slides to learn more about the pedagogical value of collaborative annotation and be given a guided tour in setting up and using the Hypothesis tool in Canvas.
Lessons from the Canvas Alpha Test: Deepening the Instruction of Deep Reading
Canvas Panda presents the Hypothesis app We’re wrapping up the first semester of testing on the new Hypothesis Canvas app in about a dozen classrooms around the country. We’ve had a great group of alpha testers who’ve bravely experimented with this prototype and offered us invaluable feedback that has already informed our development. [...]
Annotating PDFs Without URLs
For sometime now, you've been able to annotate PDFs using Hypothesis, both on the web and locally, with hosted PDFs syncing with local instances and various local instances syncing with each other. Jon Udell wrote about this magical feature here over a year go. For those that tried it out, however, there was one annoying snag, especially [...]