Educational annotations explain the plantings, which range from sweet corn to exotic crops like Chinese long beans and stevia.
Drawing on HyperStudio's educational design expertise, Annotation Studio integrates a powerful set of textual interpretation tools behind an interface that makes using the tools intuitive for both students and their teachers.
Both teachers and students can drag and drop multimedia, links or text (YouTube videos, Google links or photos from Dropbox, for example), organizing them into a Pinterest-style educational presentation, complete with annotations.
"We had the choice of adding annotations and educational materials to the book or a set of new illustrations," Darrin Devault, co-founder of the Devault-Graves Agency, told The Washington Post.
This paper discusses annotation in an educational context and introduces some of the web annotation systems currently available.
For example the activities have suggested that incorporation of the annotation assignments into educational curricula across institutions can be an effective means for obtaining quality annotations through semester-long or academic year-long training and assessments.
Rikin Gandhi, another researcher, has been experimenting with a combination of mobile phones and educational comic books that would allow users to get voice annotations to a book by pressing key combinations into a phone.
And the annotations must be prepared by experts in the relevant fields, including psychology and educational sciences.
An ever-changing array of platforms and services offer inexpensive or free applications that have proven useful for sharing in educational contexts — applications for mindmaps, timelines, visual presentations, photo galleries, blogs and microblogs, bibliography management, shared webpage annotations, and more.
Developed here at the Center for Educational Resources, Reveal uses mapping, in the sense of the term that refers to hierarchical image mapping, combined with annotation.
