Little Memorial Library: Digital Arts, Sciences, and Humanities Tools: Annotation Tools

Annotation Tools

InsertLearning
Take any website and turn it into a lesson by adding notes, discussion forums or quiz questions. Insert Learning installs a Firefox or Chrome extension to allow users to insert annotations.

Hypothe.is
This tool allows you to take any website and add annotations (including links to other websites and images) and then collaborate with others by sending the annotated link to them. Examples: Science in the Classroom, Live-annotate

Lacuna Stories

Lacuna Stories allows multiple users to simultaneously read and annotate a digital text, transitioning the Western tradition of handwritten annotations to a 21st century format. Annotations can be searched and mapped to pinpoint particular types of responses or follow individual student reading experiences. Lacuna can also support long-form writing assignments. Assignment Ideas

Prism ScholarsLab

Described as a tool for “crowdsourcing interpretation,” Prism ScholarsLab is a fast-growing platform for reading digital texts together. Users can highlight sections of a text and view the most popular terms or words. An account is required.

Thinglink

ThingLink enables users to embed clickable links or pop-up content within the photos and videos they create and share online. Free accounts provide basic features, while subscription accounts grant access to premium features, such as 360° video embedding.

VideoAnt

VideoAnt is a web-based video annotation tool for mobile and desktop devices. Use VideoAnt to add annotations, or comments, to web-hosted videos. VideoAnt-annotated videos are called “Ants”. You can export your annotations in a variety of data formats and even embed your Ants on a personal website, learning management system, or anywhere HTML is allowed. VideoAnt is produced by the Digital Education and Innovation team in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota.