The digital common read: Creating a space for authentic engagement with social annotation

This paper describes a new approach to the common read at the University of New Haven, USA. Faculty and students choose a text in the public domain, place it on the web, and ask incoming first-year honors students to annotate the text collaboratively using Hypothesis. The choice of text, placement...

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Main Authors: Matthew Wranovix, Mary Isbell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hanze UAS 2020-06-01
Series:Journal of the European Honors Council
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Online Access:https://jehc.eu/index.php/jehc/article/view/119
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spelling doaj-e87c80aa670546cfbb07407a8dfc90492020-11-25T03:14:23ZengHanze UASJournal of the European Honors Council2543-23112543-232X2020-06-014110.31378/jehc.119The digital common read: Creating a space for authentic engagement with social annotation Matthew Wranovix0Mary Isbell1University of New HavenUniversity of New Haven This paper describes a new approach to the common read at the University of New Haven, USA. Faculty and students choose a text in the public domain, place it on the web, and ask incoming first-year honors students to annotate the text collaboratively using Hypothesis. The choice of text, placement on the web, and editorial introduction can all affect rates of participation and the type of annotations that students choose to share. This method is a low-cost way of creating space for a social intellectual experience prior to arriving on campus. https://jehc.eu/index.php/jehc/article/view/119common readsocial annotationdigital humanitiesfirst-year experience
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first-year experience
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title The digital common read: Creating a space for authentic engagement with social annotation
title_short The digital common read: Creating a space for authentic engagement with social annotation
title_full The digital common read: Creating a space for authentic engagement with social annotation
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title_full_unstemmed The digital common read: Creating a space for authentic engagement with social annotation
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series Journal of the European Honors Council
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publishDate 2020-06-01
description This paper describes a new approach to the common read at the University of New Haven, USA. Faculty and students choose a text in the public domain, place it on the web, and ask incoming first-year honors students to annotate the text collaboratively using Hypothesis. The choice of text, placement on the web, and editorial introduction can all affect rates of participation and the type of annotations that students choose to share. This method is a low-cost way of creating space for a social intellectual experience prior to arriving on campus.
topic common read
social annotation
digital humanities
first-year experience
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