Annotations

Description

Situated annotations (tied to a particular spot in a document, video, or audio -- more generally, in a resource)

Project Details

• Course proposal from Prof. Henderson
• Initial spec from Prof. Mahan
• Invision designs

Background Resources:

* Annotatable XModule (course author shares annotations with students)

• "Harvard Annotations" on edX (students share annotations with each other)
• edX Student Notes (private student annotations)
• TheAnnotator
• W3C Annotation spec
• HyperStudio (MIT)
• NB (MIT)

Status:

• Developing video annotations prototype built on existing edX services
  • evaluating Student Notes API for annotation store
  • evaluating Discussion API for comments