Comments on: Microsoft Word: A Tool for Annotation http://ianlumb.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/microsoft-word-a-tool-for-annotation/ Not entirely random thoughts on science and technology ... Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:18:41 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: sandrar http://ianlumb.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/microsoft-word-a-tool-for-annotation/#comment-18663 sandrar Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:38:45 +0000 https://ianlumb.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/microsoft-word-a-tool-for-annotation/#comment-18663 Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post... nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R. Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.

]]> By: Jim C. http://ianlumb.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/microsoft-word-a-tool-for-annotation/#comment-18001 Jim C. Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:54:09 +0000 https://ianlumb.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/microsoft-word-a-tool-for-annotation/#comment-18001 I realize you weren't addressing teachers annotation goals specifically. But the ability to quickly and clearly comment on a student's paper (whether draft or final, collected via email or Blackboard/Moodle) is increasingly important. Because students now expect digital content, and teachers are increasingly sensitive to the environmental costs of printing hundreds of pages, electronic documents are growing in popularity. There are some tools out there - the one mentioned above is particularly cool and reminds me of Vuzit. Bedford St. Martins have a web-based tool called 'Comment' (!) similar to Turnitin's GradeMark - and they're visually cool but slow if you're grading zillions of papers. Plus, they attempt to replicate the professional editor's process (with arcane symbols etc.), not the real world of student/teacher interaction. I've been beta-testing a Microsoft Word add-in called 'Annotate' (very original)...it's simple, fast, and slick because it adds a ribbon to Word 2007 and therefore looks like a native feature. It makes the marginal comments in Word much more readable, and adds standard comments appropriate to a college/high school audience. You can find it here: http://authenticassessment.wordpress.com/annotate/ Jim C. I realize you weren’t addressing teachers annotation goals specifically. But the ability to quickly and clearly comment on a student’s paper (whether draft or final, collected via email or Blackboard/Moodle) is increasingly important. Because students now expect digital content, and teachers are increasingly sensitive to the environmental costs of printing hundreds of pages, electronic documents are growing in popularity.

There are some tools out there – the one mentioned above is particularly cool and reminds me of Vuzit. Bedford St. Martins have a web-based tool called ‘Comment’ (!) similar to Turnitin’s GradeMark – and they’re visually cool but slow if you’re grading zillions of papers. Plus, they attempt to replicate the professional editor’s process (with arcane symbols etc.), not the real world of student/teacher interaction.

I’ve been beta-testing a Microsoft Word add-in called ‘Annotate’ (very original)…it’s simple, fast, and slick because it adds a ribbon to Word 2007 and therefore looks like a native feature. It makes the marginal comments in Word much more readable, and adds standard comments appropriate to a college/high school audience. You can find it here:
http://authenticassessment.wordpress.com/annotate/

Jim C.

]]> By: Fred Howell http://ianlumb.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/microsoft-word-a-tool-for-annotation/#comment-17654 Fred Howell Fri, 02 May 2008 17:19:23 +0000 https://ianlumb.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/microsoft-word-a-tool-for-annotation/#comment-17654 You might be interested in having a look at http://a.nnotate.com too - it lets you attach annotations to highlighted text of microsoft word and PDF documents in the browser without needing any plugins. You can also get a URL link to a particular annotation, e.g. a sample note on a PDF document (if wordpress comments can cope with this url...) http://a.nnotate.com/php/pdfnotate.php?d=2008-01-16&c=pxv99e#page11_note3 (highlight text to write new notes). The notes get stored separately from the original document, and can be exported as JSON if needed, with references to the page number and start/end word indices. Annotation has been around for a while ... Vannevar Bush proposed his mechanical Memex precursor to hypertext back in 1945 with marginal notes, and there's an interesting post on 'glosses' from the 16th century: http://deeplinking.net/glosses/ Fred. You might be interested in having a look at http://a.nnotate.com too – it lets you attach annotations to highlighted text of microsoft word and PDF documents in the browser without needing any plugins. You can also get a URL link to a particular annotation, e.g. a sample note on a PDF document (if wordpress comments can cope with this url…)

http://a.nnotate.com/php/pdfnotate.php?d=2008-01-16&c=pxv99e#page11_note3

(highlight text to write new notes).

The notes get stored separately from the original document, and can be exported as JSON if needed, with references to the page number and start/end word indices.

Annotation has been around for a while … Vannevar Bush proposed his mechanical Memex precursor to hypertext back in 1945 with marginal notes, and there’s an interesting post on ‘glosses’ from the 16th century: http://deeplinking.net/glosses/

Fred.

]]> By: Google Docs: A Tool for Annotation « Ian Lumb’s Blog http://ianlumb.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/microsoft-word-a-tool-for-annotation/#comment-248 Google Docs: A Tool for Annotation « Ian Lumb’s Blog Sat, 21 Oct 2006 12:47:48 +0000 https://ianlumb.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/microsoft-word-a-tool-for-annotation/#comment-248 [...] As I’ve blogged elsewhere, this is an example of annotation in the context of word processing. [...] [...] As I’ve blogged elsewhere, this is an example of annotation in the context of word processing. [...]

]]> By: Ian Lumb http://ianlumb.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/microsoft-word-a-tool-for-annotation/#comment-129 Ian Lumb Fri, 25 Aug 2006 13:53:57 +0000 https://ianlumb.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/microsoft-word-a-tool-for-annotation/#comment-129 In this post, I wrote: "I’ll look at an XML-based representation next time I’m at my desktop PC to see if that does any better." The answer is: It does! More soon. In this post, I wrote: “I’ll look at an XML-based representation next time I’m at my desktop PC to see if that does any better.”

The answer is: It does!

More soon.

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