Chris Aldrich

@MorrisPelzel @hypothes_is As a site owner how can I interact if I don't know the annotations exist? Or maybe I don't want to? (cf. http://boffosocko.com/2017/05/10/un-annotated-by-audrey-watters/ and http://hackeducation.com/2017/04/26/no-annotations-thanks-bye)

@mrkrndvs I found a solid example of highlighting and annotation using my own website in conjunction with @pressfwd and @hypothes_is on a great @audreywatters piece. It's closer to some of the UI I'd like to have, though the CSS still needs work.
http://boffosocko.com/2017/05/10/un-annotated-by-audrey-watters/

UX Suggestion · Issue #3 · kshaffer/hypothesis_aggregator https://github.com/kshaffer/hypothesis_aggregator/issues/3

Towards the end of using this plugin as part of an online "notebook" or commonplace book, it would be nice to have finer control over the listings of the annotations.

As an example, look at: http://boffosocko.com/2016/06/18/a-new-thermodynamics-theory-of-the-origin-of-life-quanta-magazine/
The original post was a "bookmark" to an article which was then annotated, solely by me. When embedding the annotations (in this case the shortcode included one author and one specific tag), it becomes overly redundant to repeatedly include that the annotations were by me, that they're from the same article, and including the picture multiple times. As this is likely a frequent use case for such a plug in, perhaps when the same annotator is repeated all the annotations could come under one heading and similarly if it's the same article, those could be concatenated along with just one photo as well.

Suggested output:
TITLE OF PAGE1 | #
PHOTO from PAGE1
Annotations by AUTHOR1:
- annotation 1 from PAGE1
- highlight 2 from PAGE1
- highlight 3 from PAGE1
- annotation to go with highlight 3 from PAGE1

TITLE OF PAGE2 | #
PHOTO from PAGE2
Annotations by AUTHOR1:
- annotation 1 from PAGE2

Annotations by AUTHOR2:
- annotation 2 from PAGE2
- annotation 3 from PAGE2

This type of logic isn't too difficult given the current configuration though it may require some thought for the pending changes to add and/or functionality for multiple authors and multiple tags.

One particular hurdle may be cases where the order of annotations could potentially tell a "story" and even more so when there are multiple authors providing multiple annotations (for example when using this in a classroom setting versus a single-author notebook.)

Providing a visual indicator like # which includes a wrapped permalink URL for the particular article could allow the user to also quickly jump to that page and see the broader flow of annotations on a single page, especially in a classroom type setting where dozens of students may have made hundreds of annotations which may provide a slightly better contextual UI experience, while still allowing the (shortcoded) web page to include all of the annotations for historical purposes.

Potential future features · Issue #2 · kshaffer/hypothesis_aggregator https://github.com/kshaffer/hypothesis_aggregator/issues/2

This plugin is spectacular by the way... Here are some thoughts on future development:

It would be great if the displayed text output from the shortcode included a permalink to the original annotation on Hypothesis. As a UI suggestion, perhaps you could place it after the title of the annotated page thusly:
URL WRAPPED TITLE | < a href="permalinkhere">#</a>

Being able to circumscribe dates for displayed annotations could be useful, particularly in cases where one wants to highlight only a handful of annotations from a particular user with a particular tag but specific ones within certain time parameters. Additionally pages with embeds could, over time, require importing huge numbers of annotations which may not be ideal, or the context may change with significant future annotations that aren't relevant to what could be a static post that's trying to highlight just a few particular annotations. Time parameters could also prevent future possible spam on unwatched embeds with only "tag" parameters that could be targeted by bad actors.

@seanmcarroll It looks like your webpage at https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/research/annotated-publications/ is possibly missing a plugin and showing shortcodes instead of content

I haven't seen anything about "mobile being dead" as most are still saying it's the next big thing (see Mary Meeker's annual 'deck' for the past 8 years.) On the other hand, many are still shouting that RSS is dead... meanwhile, I thought your solution for a shared feedly collection for following a whole classes' worth of blogs was fantastic, and that was only available courtesy of RSS!

On the topic of your annotated bibliography, you might consider looking at the www.genius.com platform. Formerly more music focused and named RapGenius, A while back I wrote about some of their functionality here http://boffosocko.com/2014/04/08/rap-genius/

As an aside, on general technology related issues, if you're not already following them, some of my favorite sources for ed tech include:
ProfHacker Blog via The Chronicle of Higher Education http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/
This Week in Google (TWiG) Podcast via Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google
Gillmor Gang (Podcast) http://techcrunch.com/video/gillmor-gang/

I recall a few other resources in the same category as this. Here are a few links for meta-coverage on them, which may provide more beneficial than spending hours trying to delve into how to use them:
VidBolt: http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/annotate-video-on-the-fly-a-review-of-vidbolt/56787
Socialbook: http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/using-video-annotation-tools-to-teach-film-analysis/57171

Other tools of interest, which you'll see notes on in the comments to the two above articles:
VideoAnt: http://ant.umn.edu
ULBPodcast: https://github.com/ulbpodcast and http://ezcast.ulb.ac.be (open source code available)
Genius.com: http://boffosocko.com/2014/04/08/rap-genius/ Particularly take a look at http://lit.genius.com/ which is a great tool for classrooms to do small scale shared annotations and close reading with the benefit of full texts (in particular, try looking up the various creation stories, eg: Gilgamesh [http://genius.com/Epic-of-gilgamesh-tablet-1-the-coming-of-enkidu-annotated; Letters of Paul [http://genius.com/Laura-nasrallah-the-pauline-epistles-contents-annotated], which was part of HarvardX religious studies course and is an excellent example of using the platform for education]). There's also http://genius.com/history-genius.

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