Click anywhere to continue Making annotations Annotations form the substance of the discussion within a SHARP conference. They may be: Y help to explain a representation, such as its purpose Y ask questions about a representation Y provide contextualising information to the representation, or Y discuss the representation. Y video Y audio Y graphics, or Y text. The purpose of an annotation may be, for example, to: Annotations excursion Slide 1 of 5

Click anywhere to continue How to prompt effective discussion To run a good SHARP style conference, you need to: Y establish and make explicit the goals of participation Y be pro-active in organising the AMC and encouraging contributions Y help synthesise the ideas presented Y provide ‘good’ examples of style, form, length/duration of annotations Y monitor participation and seek out (and support) those people who are making few contributions Y mark the close, as well as the opening, of discussions (for example, by summarising). Annotations excursion Slide 2 of 5

Click anywhere to continue Video annotations In addition to using video clips to capture a representation of practice, they can also be used within a SHARP conference to annotate the original clip. They are additional to, or elaborate on, the first clip. In this clip …[need clip here]. Annotations excursion Slide 3 of 5

Click anywhere to continue Audio (voice) annotations: X help the viewer to focus on the action in the clip while hearing more/different/other comments X can provide a rich expressive contribution, capturing tone, and also humour, gravity, conviction, etc. X are easy to create – they are much quicker than typing X have persistance and are permanently stored as objects, unlike real speech, so can be revisited and replayed X can simplify the interface X can be given with playback control, e.g. to replay, to move/step forward and backwards, to scan, to stop. Audio annotations Annotations excursion Slide 4 of 5

Click anywhere to continue Text and graphics will be familiar media to all participants. Making effective text annotations within a SHARP conference requires participants to be brief, to the point, and clear about how their annotation relates to the original video clip and to other annotations. The use of graphics will depend heavily on what is supported by your conferencing software. Participants may find it particularly helpful to be able to ‘draw’ directly on a video clip, or a still from it. Text and graphical annotations Annotations excursion Slide 5 of 5

Click anywhere to continue You have completed the core part of the SHARP tour. Please choose any of the following excursions : Where to now? Technology Pedagogy Making video clips Making video clips Making annotations Making annotations End the tour End the tour

Click anywhere to continue On from here Thank you for taking the SHARP tour. Please go on now to explore the rest of the SHARP web site. You can: Y Sign our [Guestbook] Y Contribute to the [Discussion area] Y Go to the [Project Office] for more details of the SHARP project. Y Look at [Events] for information on upcoming dissemination events. Y Experiment with [WebOrama], a prototype AMC tool.