From highlighting passages in a reading to scribbling notes in the margins, annotation has a familiar place in our roles as learners, teachers, and academics. Web-based tools such as hypothes.is provide a new level of collaboration to that process, by giving us the ability to attach notes, commentary, and discussion to any document that exists on the web.

You can find out more about hypothes.is here. Want to see it in action? The OERu uses hypothes.is in its free online courses, encouraging learners across the world to contribute ideas and support each other. One example is in the ‘mini-challenge’ on the ‘Digital skills versus digital literacies’ page of Digital literacies for online learning. If you install hypothes.is and visit the article referred to in the activity, you can view public comments made by OERu learners.

Visit the ‘Annotation as Collaboration’ discussion forum to share some thoughts of how you might use web annotation as a collaborative activity, or share different ways in which you already use tools like Hypothes.is. Remember, too, that comments on Google docs (or similar) are a form of annotation, as are things like Vialogues for annotating / discussing video.
If this is your first time posting in an OERu Forum, you will need to create an account. If you prefer a less public option, you are welcome to share your thoughts in Moodle here