 All right, well, good afternoon. Thank you all for joining us today for the Intro to Social Annotation in Secondary Education presentation. My name is Sonja Visser, and I work at Hypothesis on their education team. I wanna thank you all for joining. Today we're going to be talking about collaborative social annotation and using hypothesis in the classroom. Today's presentation has a focus on K through 12. However, if you are in higher education, no worries, the presentations are very similar. We also have a hypothesis 101 that is solely focused on higher ed. You can find any of those invites and registrations on our website at our events tab. But again, as I said, they're very similar. So I'm happy to have you join us today. I'm gonna be your tour guide as we go through this presentation. So annotation, what is annotation? So I'm gonna read this. This is a portion of Billy Collins' marginalia poem. We have all seized the white perimeter as our own and reached for a pen if only to show we did not just lays in an armchair turning pages. We pressed a thought into the wayside, planted an impression along the verge. This poem and this excerpt from the poem really does talk about our ability to make our mark, make an annotation. Annotations are breadcrumbs that we leave for other readers to follow and form a trail for us to follow from readers who have read the passage in the past. They help us to think critically about what we've just read, encourage us as Billy says here to not just lays in an armchair turning pages, but to really become an active participant. Annotation has been around for a very long time. Scholars, students and everyday readers have been annotating in books since really the invention of the book itself. Writing in the margins makes us better readers, more attentive, more understanding, more active, more critical. But as books and other assigned readings have moved into the digital space and moved online, we've lost that ability to practice this annotation, this skill. So this is really where a hypothesis steps in and makes annotation become possible in a digital environment. Within hypothesis, you can select that text to annotate. You can reply to another annotation. You're able to annotate in groups, search your notes. It's really bringing those digital documents alive as you would in a physical textbook. For teaching and learning, hypothesis makes reading active. If you look at this quote from one of our English teachers, Sarah Gross, it enables her students to contribute to the conversation whether they are frequent class participants or they like to just sit back and think. It really creates a conversation where students feel comfortable contributing and all of the students are part of that conversation. If you look at this assignment, you'll see this professor is using means as part of annotation. So this really allows educators to think creatively on how to engage with their students and encouraging students to annotate using these means. The students loved it and it really made the assignment highly interactive and fun because you're coming at them with different modalities and different ways to engage. Hypothesis makes reading visible, both to you as the instructor and teacher as well as to the class. They can see and interact with each other. They can see each other's comments, ask questions and debate or challenge their thinking. It's a new capability in this digital environment and we can see just markers of students reading. Where are they confused? Where are they excited? It allows you to gauge what they're doing and how they're doing that within their reading. They also, students also have insights not just about their own thoughts but provide a window into what their classmates are thinking. So it really does make it a very social activity. Hypothesis makes reading social. And this is one of the things that we're finding from the students that they really do love as part of using hypothesis in their courses. They're reading together while they're in this document, this online document. I have two children. I have a 12 year old and I have a 15 year old. And while frustrating for me to sit there and watch them on their devices, I'll sometimes tell them, let's talk to each other. And they're like, we are, we're playing a game together and we're communicating. And that is making it social for them. So this format is very comfortable for them. In all individuals can contribute whether they're extroverts or introverts. And we just hear a lot of similar comments about how this levels the playing field and that students who in a lot of cases may not speak up in that face-to-face classroom are very comfortable to bring their ideas within hypothesis. Hypothesis is integrated within your learning management system. We work with and support all the major learning management systems. We allow for single sign-on. This capability has been around for a while and most folks really do use hypothesis within the LMS. And we can work with you on getting that integrated within your institution. It allows for single sign-on, as I said, grade book integration. It allows you to make comments specifically to a student as you can see right here. And those grades can be automatically entered into the grade book. What can you annotate? So within hypothesis, you can annotate PDFs, web pages, online articles, textbooks, and open education resources, and coming soon will be eBooks as well. And then another thing that I mentioned a little bit earlier was this multi-modality of annotation. So within hypothesis, you can use texts, links, images, videos, you can bring in URLs, different websites, equations. So it really allows you to interact with the students and they can interact with each other in many different ways. What I wanna do right now is show you hypothesis within the learning management system. I'm gonna show you today an example of an assignment in Canvas. This is, again, just one of the LMSs that we interact with and integrate with. But the integration with Canvas is very similar to our other integrations. If you could put in the chat what learning management system you are using, that way we can follow up with you some information regarding that learning management system and that integration as well. So I'm gonna toggle over to our Canvas course. This is a Literature 404 course. And you'll see we have numerous assignments within this course. I'm gonna click on this one assignment. It's the Mary Oliver Wild Geese Poem Assignment. And if you look, this assignment is similar to what you would have with any assignment in Canvas where what we're asking the students to do is look for character, setting, structure, locate an example of one of these elements, create an annotation and explain that. I'm gonna click into the poem itself. And you'll see immediately that hypothesis just lives right here within this sidebar. I can minimize hypothesis, I can pull that out. I can even turn off the annotation so you can read the document cleanly. And to interact with hypothesis, it's as simple as highlighting those words that you wanna annotate. And you have two options. As a student, you can highlight which would mean that those highlights are private to you or you can annotate. And within this annotation, you can use text. You can, as I mentioned, bring in a link. You can bring in an image. Or you can bring in, as I mentioned before, that formula, we support that latex language for math. So if you're not teaching a social science but you're using, you're teaching in a course where you would need that, we support that as well. So as you can see here, we've got the image here that will appear. So really your students can interact and make their explanations and the annotations very unique to themselves. And you can require different modalities when you're assigning hypothesis as well. The other thing that I mentioned earlier is tagging. You can have students put in specific words. And tagging really allows you to filter the annotations. This allows you to call on different students that may have chosen the same tag and allow for a deeper discussion. There's many different ways that you can use tagging within your course. Once a student and you've annotated, you can then post your annotation specifically to Literature 404, which in this case is the entire course, or you can post to only yourself. And this allows for students who may wanna take a little bit more time to think about what they wanna say, they can come back to it and post at a later date. And so once they've done that, then students, as you can see, they can reply to the annotations either as you as a professor can or a student can reply to each other. When hypothesis is integrated within your learning management system, you can create a reading assignment, as I mentioned earlier with the URL or with a PDF. And PDFs, they do need to be accessible. And in other words, that the text in the PDF does need to be selectable and it can't just be a picture of the text. So just a couple of tips there for when you're annotating with specific PDFs. With hypothesis, we offer a pilot program. This pilot program really does allow you to get started with hypothesis and really helps you effectively to gather interest within your institution and really start to roll hypothesis out. These are some of the secondary schools and systems that are partnering with us that have started with pilots and have moved on into subscriptions. And then we have close to 300 higher ed and K-12 institutions that are partnering and working with us and subscribing with us. With that, we wanna thank those institutions and the folks running them on their campuses because they've been true partners with us. And when you join our pilot programs, you really do provide a lot of feedback for us that really does help us make important product decisions going forward. What does our pilot include? So we provide technical support and pedagogical support. I have worked in the educational industry for the past 15 plus years and I will say that hypothesis support is top notch. We provide tier one technical support. We work with your LMS admins and anyone at your institution from a technical standpoint. And then we also have a success team. And these folks work with you pedagogically. So they provide one-on-one meetings, workshops. They host trainings for your faculty, for your teachers and really work to customize professional development within the organization. So they're here to really make sure that a hypothesis really meets your goals and is fully used throughout the entire institution. One of the ways to get started right now is with a free trial. This allows you to immediately get set up. It's a special offer for any of our interested teachers. So you can really get set up and explore, try out an assignment. We'll help you to see how easy it is to incorporate. And we also will give you many ideas on how to start to plan your course using hypothesis. We have resources from other institutions who best practices and tips and tricks along the way. If you would reach out to us, you can either go ahead and type your information in the chat so we can follow up with you. You can email us at that education at hypothesis website or visit our website and let us know because we'd love to get you all involved in our pilot and our trial program. Another feature that, another thing that we love to highlight and welcome for you to take a look at is our liquid margins. This is a show where we bring in instructors across the country who are using hypothesis in their classroom to talk about how they're using it, what is working. It's a way for anyone to at any time go in and just kind of listen to what is making it work for their students, for their classes. We have, as you can see here, math, we've got chemistry, we have biology instructors. So it is really across the entire discipline areas that folks are using hypothesis and liquid margins, which is on our website will allow you to take a look at what are some of the wonderful things that other instructors are doing across the country. And then one of the last things I wanna mention today is that we host a I annotate conference. This is our eighth annual conference. We've done this every year except for 2020. We missed it last year, but we're so excited to be bringing this back. That is gonna be taking place June 21st through the 25th. I'll have one of my colleagues that is working with me in hypothesis to put the registration link in the chat. So if you want to just go ahead and click there. It's also on our website, but this is free and it allows you to gather information from speakers and different folks that really are talking about the importance of social collaborative annotation. So we definitely recommend for you to share this with any of your colleagues. We'd love to have you join us at this I annotate conference just coming up in a month from now, June 21st through the 25th. I wanna thank you. I wanna see if there's any, I think we've answered all of the chat questions. Is there anything that I'm just gonna quickly look I think we've answered all of those. Does anyone have any other questions that they'd like for me to answer before we sign off today? All right, well, I wanna thank you all for joining us. Please, as I said, here's our webpage. Go to our website, get information about anything there on our pilot program, on our liquid margins, on our I annotate and then definitely email us at education at hypothesis for further information to join us for our pilot program. We would love to have you join us at any point. Oh, we have one more question. Public domain, yes. So any website, you can upload information from any website, you can use it any URL as well as anything that is a PDF. And I think we saw here, as I'm looking through the chat, they talked about optimizing how to optimize a PDF. We do have a tool, it's how to optimize PDFs that we can work with you to make sure that, so that is absolutely true. And does this integrate with grading like a discussion board? Yes, so working with your different LMSs, that grade book is integrated. So that is true, you can integrate with the grade book. Journal article from our library. So yes, so the journal articles, what a lot of folks, one of the professors will use do is they will take those articles and make them into PDFs. And we are, as I mentioned, going forward, looking to integrate with eBooks. And so that is something that's also coming in the future. But Andrea, we'll definitely follow up with you on using those articles from the library as well. So all right, well, wonderful. Well, thank you again for joining us today. And we look forward to hopefully having you join our pilot program. Thank you so much.