10K Annotations in a Single Day
On 14 September, for the first time ever, Hypothesis users created over 10,000 annotations in a single day, as our growth in annotations continued to accelerate.
Category: Education
Dive Into Open Annotation at FORCE11 2017 Summer Workshops
Take a deep dive into open annotation 31 July–4 August, 2017: two intensive courses at the FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Summer Institute.
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 […]
Teaching Students to Marshal Evidence and Evaluate Claims
Using annotation to marshal evidence in factchecking news with the Digital Polarization Initiative.
Hypothesis in Canvas: Collaborative Annotation as Discussion Forum 2.0
Go beyond discussion forums in Canvas by using social annotation to help students engage more deeply with course content and each other. Review the recording and slides from our 4 April 2017 webinar.
Annotating TV News
Annotating video in the Internet Archive’s TV News Archive, a remarkable resource that provides video clips of TV news shows since 2009.
A Partnership to Bring Open Annotation to eBooks
Today we are announcing a partnership to bring open, collaborative, cross-platform annotation to eBooks. Together with NYU Libraries, NYU Press, Evident Point, the Readium Foundation and the EPUBjs project, Hypothesis will be working to bring annotation to EPUB, the standard format for digital books.
Digital books represent an enormous class of content which at present cannot be collaboratively annotated with others. Combined with the recent work that the W3C has done to standardize annotation, this represents an essential next step in bringing a high quality open annotation implementation to books everywhere.
Hypothesis: Meeting the Audrey Test for Educational Technology
Anyone working on or with educational technology should take the work of Audrey Watters—widely known as the “Cassandra” of #edtech—very seriously. If your work withers under Audrey’s critical gaze, you’ve got more work to do. In that spirit, I wanted to hold Hypothesis up to the kind of scrutiny that Audrey might provide.
Back in 2012, Audrey posted “The Audrey Test”: Or, What Should Every Techie Know About Education? on her must-read Hack Education blog. The Audrey Test includes a short list of questions that she suggests every #edtech project, product, or company should answer in order to meet the high expectations we should all hold when we are working on educational tools that engage in what we should think of as “high stakes environments with other people’s children.”
How does Hypothesis fare in The Audrey Test?
Our Millionth Annotation
It was getting close to midnight and the Hypothesis team was watching the counter of total annotations tick up: 999,646…999,752…999,845…by 10:37pm Pacific Time it was 999,959 and we knew we’d reach one million annotations that night. People all over the world were busy taking notes using Hypothesis—students, journalists, researchers, scientists, scholars—most without knowing that our team and the annotation community on social media were rooting for their work. Countdown tweets for a #millionannotations were starting to gather an audience. Who would add the millionth annotation?
A Hypothesis-powered Toolkit for Fact Checkers
A collaboration to build a toolkit for students to master the critical thinking skills and digital literacies needed to fact-check news.