Are you looking for an easy way to annotate for research, collaboration, and teaching? Consider Hypothes.is This powerful [and free] utility is an easy way to annotate directly inside your browser. Hypothes.is works best with Chrome, but can be used in any browser via a bookmark utility. Here are some examples, including rhetorical analysis, opinion, creative writing, annotated bibliographies, and multimedia writing: Hypothes.is Demos
What can you annotate?
Just about any web page, PDF, or epub file can be used with Hypothes.is. Certain files hosted in Google Drive may need to be downloaded before they can be annotated. A new layer is being developed in concert with the W3C organization called Web Annotations that converts annotations into "workgroups" for the purposes of shared research and collaboration. Hypothes.is is also used widely in bioscience in biomedicine where the corpus exceeds 20 million articles, and another one million articles added annually.
How does it work?
Simply create an account and activate Hypothes.is. In Chrome this is as easy as clicking a small annotation icon. If you use another browser, simply activate Hypothes.is using the bookmark utility. Highlight the text you would like to annotate and Hypothes.is presents the capture tool. Annotations can be kept private or shared publicly. There are also a variety of editing features, notations, and even tags.
Can I use Hypothes.is in Canvas?
Absolutely. This blog illustrates using Hypothes.is inside Canvas discussions in order to cultivate quality conversations. For example, students can work in teams to annotate discussion board documents. Collective annotations can be shared inside Speedgrader, or exported and shared via cloud drives. This allows faculty to see a student's progression across a course. Hypothes.is also has an App specifically designed for Canvas.
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