Web Annotation Tools

Web Annotation
I’ve called attention to web annotation tools in the past, the reason being that I am among those internet weirdos who thinks there are conversations to be had across domains that, right now, are difficult to maintain because commenting functionality is largely restricted to the domain in which any particular resource is published. Aggregators like Reddit and Imzy show the need for environments that allow us to talk about web resources in new contexts, as do scholarly research tools like Zotero and Mendeley. Web annotation allow those types of conversations to bounce more nimbly between these constructed contexts and the context of the article itself. My work in education has led me to think that this kind of… Read more >>

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