Annotation as/in Learning Micah Vandegrift || @micahvandegrift Open Knowledge Librarian North Carolina State University

Resources Hypothes.is Educators site https://web.hypothes.is/teacher-resource-guide/ Webinar Pedagogy of Collaborative Annotation

Nuance I’d like to begin with what I’ve boiled down as the single most important use of annotation in teaching - nuance. Annotation allows the learning community to explore the shades of meaning/forms of literacy that are possible.

Shades of knowledge-building Opens the learners to concept of different forms of scholarly work. Not just research, data-crunching, and write and publish. Scholarly work can and should exist in the public - for much of the western, literate, rich world that is online. Rethinking how students read and engage in an online environment (comprehension, analysis) Especially highlighting the differences that individuals bring to a text Annotation helps build a learning community

Lesson Plan: How to Read Research Better Goals: Introduce the tool, highlight basic features, highlight limitations of the tool Emphasize data enrichment as supplemental/elemental scholarly activity Learning Objectives: Identify annotation as a part of research Practice engaging with a new tool/skill Differentiate between annotation and other forms of scholarly intervention with a ‘text’ Evaluate the digital tool/skill’s utility in research Exercise: Contribute (digital) annotations to an already annotated work online How do you find it? (discovery) How do you enter into the discussion? (scholarship as conversation) How does your contribution ‘enrich’ the resource? (data-centeredness) What is the difference between an annotation and a comment? (forms of engagement) If annotations are creating a new, info-rich layer on top of the web, how can that layer be made visible? (limitations) Why won’t you continue to annotate while you read? (practical application) How to Read Research Better Context: Library-led digital tools/skills training Unlike a teacher in the discipline, my teaching is more often method-focused, as opposed to text-focused.

Digital Scholarship Incubator Annotation was one of the skills we highlighted at Florida State University’s Digital Scholarship Incubator when discussing the topic of tools/techniques. https://github.com/ADHOLibDH/ds.incubators/blob/master/FSU%20PEN%20%26%20Inc/syllabus.md We showed the Periodic Table of Digital Research Resources, as well as TaDiRAH to situate this as a scholarly practice aligned with other forms of familiar work. We would then hold one-on-one sessions with each individual that was interested in digging deeper with a specific skill/method. Stanley, Sarah; Vandegrift, Micah (2016): Periodic Table of Digital Research Resources. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3465686.v3 http://tadirah.dariah.eu/

Examples PDF Image Data Monograph Digital object - E. A. Séguy's Papillons (QL466 .S448 1920), Special Collections Research Center at NCSU Libraries. https://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog/segPap_008 Webtext - Goodman, Robin Truth. 2018. Promissory Notes: On the Literary Conditions of Debt. Amherst, Massachusetts : Lever Press. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/fulcrum.rj430528d Dataset - https://doi.org/10.4225/55/598943b1403d3

Closing the loop Learning Contributing Contributing Learning I think annotation is important, especially in HSS, because we can experience a form of learning AND a form of knowledge-making simultaneously. Taking that responsibility seriously, and working to connect learning to shared public knowledge is something that I believe aligns particularly well with humanistic and/or social science inquiry.