{"id":68,"date":"2016-01-24T16:15:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T16:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/?page_id=68"},"modified":"2016-04-05T19:20:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T19:20:43","slug":"social-annotation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/multi-media-lab\/social-annotation\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Annotation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Annotating texts is one of the oldest scholarly tools available. \u00a0Annotations are sidebar comments that help put text into context. \u00a0Good annotations add information and provide insight in a concise fashion. \u00a0They are also often excellent road maps toward further learning. \u00a0In recent years, \u00a0various digital\u00a0tools have emerged to provide a online platform for social annotation, allowing multiple readers to annotate text together. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/genius.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Genius<\/a>\u00a0(formerly RapGenius) was one of the pioneers of this process. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Diigo<\/a> is another. \u00a0Most recently, there is a non-profit, open source competitor in this field called <a href=\"https:\/\/hypothes.is\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hypothes.is<\/a>. \u00a0The <em>New York Times<\/em> describes all three of these platforms <a href=\"http:\/\/learning.blogs.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/12\/skills-and-strategies-annotating-to-engage-analyze-connect-and-create\/\">here in this 2015 Learning Network post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Challenge<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pick one of these platforms and try to create an example of useful historical annotation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Some models and ideas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>See these two model annotations that use Genius and have been embedded at\u00a0Lincoln&#8217;s Writings (a new House Divided Project website):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/autobiographical-sketch-december-20-1859\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lincoln Autobiographical Sketch (1859)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/letter-to-horace-greeley-august-22-1862\/\" target=\"_blank\">Letter to Horace Greeley (1862)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For your experiment, try to contribute some annotations to Chapter 4\u00a0of the Henry Adams classic memoir,\u00a0<em>The Education of Henry Adams\u00a0<\/em>(1907), which is now posted at Genius. \u00a0Adams was a pioneering nineteenth-century US historian who attended Harvard College in the 1850s. Just be aware that his recollection of his college days was often sardonic. \u00a0For example, he wrote about college, &#8220;The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.&#8221; \u00a0When offering your annotations, try to do more than just provide opinions. \u00a0Do some research and put that research to use in providing valuable context for other readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Annotating texts is one of the oldest scholarly tools available. \u00a0Annotations are sidebar comments that help put text into context. \u00a0Good annotations add information and provide insight in a concise fashion. \u00a0They are also often excellent road maps toward &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/multi-media-lab\/social-annotation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":66,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-68","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}