Learning Lab: Activating Annotation

The Hypothesis team will share how teachers are using annotation-powered reading to help students develop foundational academic skills like close reading and persuasive writing. In addition to sharing pedagogical best practices for social annotation, we will demonstrate how Hypothesis is used with course readings in your LMS, including how to set up annotation assignments.

Thursday, August 13 – 2:30PM ET

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Learning Lab: Annotate Your Syllabus

Asking your class to annotate the syllabus allows you to introduce students to social annotation in a low-stakes way. Even better, you’re providing students with an opportunity to engage with the syllabus, to share ideas and to ask questions about the course in a way that sets the tone for engagement throughout the term. In this workshop, the Hypothesis team will review ideas and guidance for the collaborative syllabus annotation assignment.

Thursday, August 20 – 2:30PM ET

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Learning Lab: Hypothesis Accessibility and Student Experience

Creating accessible learning experiences through proactive design is central to the product development philosophy at Hypothesis. This workshop covers basic accessibility features and simulates using the tool from a student’s perspective. We review the various options available for users to customize their annotation experience. Faculty will leave with strategies for ensuring an optimal student experience when teaching with Hypothesis.

Thursday, September 3 – 2:30PM ET

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Learning Lab: Modeling and Prompting Meaningful Annotation

Social annotation offers students a way to build community while they annotate course documents, but just because we create an annotation assignment does not mean that students automatically know how to write meaningful annotations. This session provides strategies for increasing instructor presence in annotation activities, prompting meaningful original annotations from students, and inviting students to respond to each other. You will leave with strategies that you can apply to your assignment prompts to start seeing better results from student annotations & discussions immediately.

Thursday, September 17 – 2:30PM ET

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Learning Lab: Re-engage Your Students: Trying Hypothesis with Your Mid-Semester Readings

Are you looking to re-engage your students with your course readings, but feeling concerned that it might be too difficult to try something new with them mid-semester? Hypothesis social annotation integrates seamlessly into your LMS and has an intuitive interface that will make it easy for your students to start annotating.

This workshop reviews ways to use Hypothesis to get students reading more actively and engaging more authentically with each other. Whether you are brand new to the tool or a former user looking for new ideas, you will leave this workshop with actionable strategies to implement with your next digital reading assignment.

Thursday, October 1 – 2:30PM ET

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Learning Lab: Social Annotation, Open Pedagogy, and OER

Interested in teaching through freely available online materials and Open Educational Resources (OER)? Open pedagogical practices invite students to learn collaboratively and even to become knowledge creators in their own right, all while lowering textbook and material costs which provide barriers to learning.

Using Hypothesis social annotation over free, open access, and OER materials encourages more authentic and community-driven formative assessment than publisher banks and traditional homework activities. This workshop prepares faculty to build Hypothesis assignments using publicly-available learning materials and support students in the collaborative modification of OER texts.

Thursday, October 22 – 2:30PM ET

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Learning Lab: Modeling and Prompting Meaningful Annotations

Social annotation offers students a way to build community while they annotate course documents, but just because we create an annotation assignment does not mean that students automatically know how to write meaningful annotations. This session provides strategies for increasing instructor presence in annotation activities, prompting meaningful original annotations from students, and inviting students to respond to each other.

You will leave with strategies that you can apply to your assignment prompts to start seeing better results from student annotations & discussions immediately.

Thursday, November 5 – 2:30PM ET

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Learning Lab: Hypothesis Advanced Features

The Hypothesis team will host a review of recently released Hypothesis features, including paced annotation, image annotation, instructor dashboards, autograding, and at-mentions. Ideally, attendees will already be familiar with using Hypothesis.

Thursday, November 19 – 2:30PM ET

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