Annotation StudioAnnotation Studio is open source software that engages students in the process of interpreting literary texts and other humanities media documents by searching curated multimedia collections for relevant materials, posting comments, tagging, remixing, and sharing with other users – skills that today’s students have already acquired from the many hours they have spent interacting with peers on the Internet. Instead of skimming over difficult passages or being frustrated by them, students use our annotation tool along with their new-media skills to open up the texts their instructors assign. Instead of passively reading, they are actively discovering, annotating, comparing, sampling, illustrating, and representing.
Instructors report that their students, by using Annotation Studio, developed new approaches to critical thinking while honing the foundational skills of humanities research, writing, and presentation.
