What is your typical reading workflow? How do you anticipate it changingwhen you socially annotate?
I'm the kind of reader that doesn't dwell on topics for too long, which has made annotating pretty difficult. being real, I'm probably not going to annotate much more because of this, but I will put more thought into them and not just leave one word annotations that waste peoples time
f you’ve beenlearning about a new topic or interpreting an argument, summarize thekey point in your own words
Yeah, that actually makes a lot of sense. I think I'm going to do that from now on
Social annotators often spend most of their time digging in
So you're saying someone that leaves an annotation usually actually read what they're annotating? I don't think this was written in the 2020s
Skimming can give you an overview of the text and the conversation.Skim through the introduction and the conclusion and the headings of thetext—what does it seem to be about?
I do this more than I'd like to admit
What other affordances might social annotation tools offer?
You could use it as a way to store your own personal thoughts, and let others follow your thought process
#audience, #word-Choice, #ethos, #structure, and #style
huh. Maybe I should try that next time
As you share your thinking and begin to participate in marginal conversa-tions, you may find yourself wanting a way to sort and organize the notes.Enter hashtags
People use # to organize annotations? I always just either use a line or numbers
Of course, just like in class, you don’t need an extended monologuethat leaves no room for anyone to respond
Good, because there's no way I could write for that long
If you’ve ever annotated a paperback book, you’ve probably found yourselfshort on space to write notes
yeah. It's not easy. most of the time, I just write on a scrap piece of paper and staple it to the thing I'm annotating (on the rare occasions I'm actually annotating)
As a writer, you can use this annotation to reflect on when andhow you might choose to use technical vocabulary to make your own writ-ing more accessible for a wider audience
So you can go the route where you make things simple, the route where your vocabulary is exemplary, or a mix of the two. it just depends on who and what you're writing for
Shared annotations can also help us to understand theresponses readers might have to an authors’ writing choices.
So they can give context? guess that makes sense
Have you ever wondered about the inspiration for the lyrics to yourfavorite song?
several times. maybe I'm just not creative enough, but I don't understand how some people can write an entire song based off a relatively simple image or a short phrase that doesn't mean much
Community is an important aspect of social annotation.
I'd upgrade it to a Vital aspect, as annotation would be useless without community
It got me thinking more and now I’m reading it once again just tosee what the author meant by that term
I know this is somewhat unrelated, but I think its worth mentioning. One of the things my high school introduced was talking to a rubber duck when things didn't make sense. the crazy thing is, it actually worked. I still do it sometimes
Many of my students that find it difficult to speak up in whole-classdiscussions
Yeah, usually. for me, its like "what should I say? oh someone already beat me to it. oh well" I've had that thought process a few times
Whether written into the margins of texts, integratedinto the print, or digitally superimposed, in what contexts have you encoun-tered annotations written by another person? In what ways have you sharedyour annotations with other readers?
There's here for starters. In a book that I have, part of the experience is that it exists in universe and one of the characters has written annotations.
Whether you are an annotation expert or novice, I invite you to makeand share your own annotations on this chapter.
I know that my annotations are meager, but hopefully by the end they're at least somewhat decent.
Annotation has been practiced for thousands of years as a way to improvereading.
Thank you for my daily fun fact