what we're not trying to do when people hear the words browser and annotation um often immediately their mind just jumps to like here's a commenting section for the web and we really don't want to have this 00:09:30 one big commenting section there's a lot of examples i think of like large platforms with commenting and in the best cases it requires just an immense amount of work to even make it usable personally in my 00:09:44 own opinion i think like when a community is overly broad the commentary becomes less useful and less thoughtful so this is a case i think where having some decentralization 00:09:56 would be very helpful and it lets communities and groups self-organize and self-moderate at an appropriate scale for them

Before I would just hand out the reading and say do it, and then stare at them in discussion 00:16:54 or check to see if the [iClicker 0:16:55] was measuring whether they had successfully done the reading." But you don't know they've done it, but you not only know that they've done it, but you can look deep into how they're doing it, how they're interacting with the text, how they're interacting with each other. I think this is going to be a huge space for learning analytics

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I strongly dislike the parent-child-sibling(-friend) vocabulary Excalibrain introduces though, as it implies an order of creation. Parents exist first, children from parents.