From finding key moments to highlighting unfamiliar words. From character analysis to questioning evidence. From analyzing rhetorical appeals to online peer revision. The boundaries of annotating are limited only by the learners’ and facilitator’s lack of imagination. Hypothes.is is a long awaited tool to engage and encourage collaborative interaction with online text.

– Janelle Bence, English teacher, New Tech High School @Coppell

Here’s a set of resources from tutorials to sample assignments that can help you get started using the Hypothesis web annotation app in the classroom.

Tutorials

• Getting Started
  • Quick Start Guide for Teachers (non-LMS)
  • The Hypothes.is “Five-Step” Guides to Getting Started in Private Groups
    • Using Chrome
    • Using Via
  • Dr. Greg McVerry introduces students to Hypothesis (on YouTube)

• Different Ways to Activate the Hypothesis tool
  • Integrating Hypothesis into your Learning Management System:
    • Installing the LMS app in Instructure Canvas
    • Installing the LMS app in Blackboard
    • Installing the LMS app in D2L Brightspace
    • Installing the LMS app in Moodle
    • Installing the LMS app in Sakai
    • Installing the LMS app in Schoology
  • Installing the Chrome Browser Extension
  • Installing the Bookmarklet (for other browsers)
  • Using the “Via” Proxy
  • Integrating Hypothesis into your Content Management System:
    • Using the WordPress Plugin
    • Using Hypothesis in Pressbooks
  • Adding Hypothes.is to Your Website

• An Illustrated Taxonomy of Annotation Types (notes, page-notes, replies, etc.

• Profile Pages

• Using Groups
  • Creating Groups
  • Annotating with Groups
  • The Group Home Page

• YouTube Tutorial Videos

• Annotating PDFs
  • OCRing PDFs
  • Hosting PDFs
  • Annotating PDFs

• Advanced
  • Adding Links, Images, and Videos in Your Annotations
  • Using the Stream
  • Using Tags

• Student Resource Guide
  • Quick Start Guide for Students
  • Annotation Tips for Students

Examples

• College students annotating poetry  (University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg)

• College students annotating a novel (Hunter College)

• College students annotating court decisions  (Grand Valley State)

• Grad students annotating a scientific journal article (New Mexico State University)

• More classroom examples…

Testimonials

• Teacher Testimonials

• Student Testimonials

Assignments

• Annotation as Sustained Reading Practice

• Annotation as a Reading “Action” (Brian Watkins, Austin College)

• Close Reading Exercise (coming soon!)

• Primary Source Annotation (Jeff McClurken, University of Mary Washington)

• Curate a Novel Chapter (Tony Fassi, St. Stephen’s Episcopal School)

• Adopt a Poem (Elisa Beshero-Bondar, University of Pittsburgh-Greensberg)

• Scholarly Article Annotation (Karin Akre, Hunter College)

• Create an Annotated Class Anthology

• Annotation as Questions and Answers (Matthew Roberts, Grand Valley State)

• Annotation as Research and Pre-writing (Sean Hackney, Joliet Township High School)

Webinars

• The Pedagogy of Collaborative Annotation

• Hypothesis in the Canvas LMS

• On Collaborative Annotation in the History Classroom

• On Web Annotation in the English Classroom

• On Social Reading in the Writing Classroom

• National Writing Project Webinar on Annotation in the Classroom

Blogs

• Introducing Hypothesis for Education

• 10 Ways to Annotate with Students

• Jon Udell on PDF Annotation

• Making Photocopies Annotatable

• Receiving Hypothesis Notifications via Slack

• Undergraduate Student Testimonial

Press

• Reading as a Social Act (Mia Zamora at DML Central)

• Howard Rheingold interviews Jeremy Dean (DML Central)

• What I Like About Hypothes.is (Maha Bali at Chronicle of Higher Education)

• Annotating to Engage, Analyze, Connect and Create (Jeremy Dean and Katherine Schulten at New York Times Learning Network)

• Massively Open Online Reading (Chris Sloan at International Literacy Association)

• Cool Tools for School (Barbara Fister at Inside Higher Ed)

Other Resources

• Guide to Markdown (at GitHub)

• How to Get an Image URL (at WikiHow)