In collaboration with the Online Learning Consortium and AnnotatED, the community for annotation in education, Hypothesis convened a free virtual workshop on social annotation on Thursday 31 March at OLC Innovate 2022.

The workshop started with a quick orientation to collaborative annotation for social reading led by Hypothesis VP of Education, Dr. Jeremy Dean: What is it, and how are people using it to enrich online, face-to-face, and hybrid learning?

Then we shifted to a hands-on activity to explore, discuss, and augment a reading selected by our special guest educator, Dr. Jenae Cohn, Director of Academic Technology at California State University, Sacramento, focused on topics related to her OLC Innovate 2022 keynote: Imaginative, Strategic, Sustainable: A Call for an Online Learning Future Designed for Students’ Lived Experiences.

We practiced reading together to see firsthand how social annotation can build understanding, connections, and community. Our conversation was anchored in text — literally — and spread out to engage other texts, ideas, and people beyond the workshop itself.

For our collaborative annotation before, during, and after the workshop, Dr. Cohn selected chapter nine from her book, Skim, Dive, Surface: Teaching Digital Reading which resonates with the theme of her OLC Innovate 2022 keynote. You can read Dr. Cohn’s chapter and annotations already added to its margins, join the conversation by creating a free Hypothesis account, and reply to or post your own annotations: “Chapter 9: The Ethical Implications of Digital Reading Grappling with Digital Archiving, Readerly Privacy, and Evidence of Our Reading.”

Annotate the video transcript while you watch

View, download, and reuse slides from the workshop presentation and explore links shared during the workshop by presenters and participants:

Hypothesis resources

• Guide to engage in events with Hypothesis social annotation
• Create a free individual Hypothesis account
• Get Hypothesis in your school’s learning management system
• Get help with Hypothesis
• Annotation Tips for Students
• An Illustrated Taxonomy of Annotation Types
• Hypothesis for Education

Other resources

• Jenae Cohn’s book, Skim, Dive, Surface: Teaching Digital Reading and annotatable version of Chapter 9: The Ethical Implications of Digital Reading that was the focus of this workshop
• Jenae Cohn’s OLC Innovate 2022 keynote slides
• Jenae Cohn’s website
• “Who Chooses What Ed Tech to Buy for the College Classroom?” by Jenae Cohn in The Chronicle of Higher Education
• “Marginalia” a poem by Billy Collins
• Zettelkasten defined
• A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students
• UW Bothell and Cascadia College Guide to Open Student Work
• Remi Kalir’s collection on the annotated syllabus
• Sarah Lamdan’s forthcoming book, Data Cartels and other works
• Reclaim Hosting’s Domain of One’s Own service
• Manual Luis Espinoza and Frida Silva’s I Annotate 2021 keynote: Annotation and the Social Prize of Educational Dignity
• The Association for Authentic, Experiential, & Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL)’s 2022 annual meeting