I’m currently participating in a workshop entitled “Transforming Teaching Through Technology,” and my own project is focused on electronic textbooks as well as on pedagogical benefits to interacting with classic humanities texts via electronic media and devices.
During the workshop a colleague pointed out to me a service called a.nnotate. This web site allows you to upload pdfs which can then be annotated by others. The usefulness of this for teaching, e.g. potentially allowing one to have a primary text with comments from all students that they all can see, seems great.
Here’s your opportunity to try it out! I uploaded a free copy of David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion which I downloaded from the Internet Archive. Please click on the link and leave a comment on it if you are so inclined!
Since a.nnotate also allows users to register a web site and embed code in it that will allow this annotation feature to be used elsewhere, it will be interesting to see whether it is possible to use this on Blackboard, blogs, wikis and other course-specific sites.
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