Word of the Day: Annotation

Good Afternoon!

Today, Freshmen received some direct instruction in the time-honored practice of Text Annotation:

an·no·ta·tion ˌanəˈtāSHən 

noun

noun annotation plural noun annotations

1. a note of explanation or comment added to a text or diagram.
   • the action of annotating a text or diagram.
   Synonyms: note notation comment gloss footnote commentary explanation interpretation

Several students indicated that they had heard this term before, which was good news. I then led a Annotation Demonstration, after giving students a copy of a USAToday article with which to practice this skill.

• Here is a link to the USA Today example article.
• And here is a link to an example of the annotations we did in class.
• Page 1
• Page 2

While I led the majority of the demonstration, students were invited to ask questions, as well as contribute their own annotations.

I then checked to make sure students had successfully obtained their own, unique, current event article from over the weekend (see post below for details.) Because, and you can probably tell where I'm going with this...

HW for Tuesday:

• Annotate YOUR OWN current event media that you hunted down over the weekend.
• Students who chose a video can make video annotations with:
• VideoNot.es
• Problems? Check this out: http://blogs.bedfordstmartins.com/bits/traci-gardner/videonot-es-for-analsis-peer-review-and-grading/tgardner/
• This web-based annotation tool is forcibly compatible with Google Drive.
• The bright-green MTA Bus Pass form is due to the basket in Guidance tomorrow.
• From everyone. Fill out the front to obtain a card, fill out the back to decline. But return it, regardless.
• First Day Packets are due TOMORROW to your first period teacher!
• Tomorrow morning, students will attend Grade Level Meetings in the Auditorium, with theoir grade level.