Slides for lightning presentation about MIT HyperStudio's Annotation Studio project at Northeastern University, March 18th, 2013

1. annotationstudio
“I have never annotated before. But I think I am getting better. I am
actually writing down ideas while reading. By writing them down, I am
actually looking deeper into the text, not like when I just read the book or
something and said, ‘Oh it may mean this.’ Now it is more like, ‘Oh what
does THIS mean?’ Then I keep asking questions because I am
annotating. I am thinking about the text more.”
Student in a Fall 2012 literature class
Multimedia Text Annotation for Students
hyperstudio.mit.edu
@MIThyperstudio
#annotateMIT

2. Pedagogical Approach
• Increase awareness of fluid processes of reading, writing,
borrowing, and revision (John Bryant)
• Engage students as “editors” (Wyn Kelley)
• Develop traditional humanistic skills (close reading, textual
analysis, persuasive writing, critical thinking)
• Allow students to practice “scholarly primitives”
“ I’m using the term “primitives” in a
self-consciously analogical way, to
Discovering Annotating refer to some basic functions
common to scholarly activity
Comparing Referring across disciplines, over time, and
independent of theoretical
Sampling Illustrating
orientation.“
John Unsworth
hyperstudio.mit.edu
@MIThyperstudio
#annotateMIT

3. Annotation Studio Multimedia Text Annotations for Students
hyperstudio.mit.edu
@MIThyperstudio
#annotateMIT

4. Future Directions
• Incorporating student-generated texts for annotation
• Developing citation tools
• Filtering annotations by student, subject, date, etc.
• Exporting annotations into visual drafting space
• Supporting creative writing and translation courses
• Side-by-side display of texts/media documents
• Annotation across multiple documents
• Annotation of multimedia sources (image, video, audio)
• Customizable visual display of annotations
• Curated repository of media and text documents
• Export and archiving of annotations (Open Annotation Standard)
• Connection to other tools via open API (TextLab, MOOCS, etc.)
hyperstudio.mit.edu
@MIThyperstudio
#annotateMIT

5. Thank you!
Team Funding
Jim Paradis National Endowment for the Humanities
Kurt Fendt MIT Alumni Funds
Jamie Folsom SHASS Teaching & Learning Funds
Wyn Kelley
Ayse Gursoy
Jason Lipshin
Susan Fienberg
Sviatlana Fahmy
http://annotationstudio.org
hyperstudio.mit.edu
@MIThyperstudio
#annotateMIT