Thinkport Annotator

[leiafee]

http://annotator.thinkport.org/

I've been using this with my adult learners lately and like it a lot.

It allows you to copy and paste a chunk of text into a working area and then highlight over the top of it to attach your own notes.

You can label and change the pen colours and it compiles all the notes at the end.

You can then share and distribute the site to others an they can save their own copy with changes.

Log in to some of mine to ahve a look if you like.

I tried it out for a Key Skills "reading and summarising exercises" (project name Hafod and Morfa Co)

And for identifying the prefixs and base units when teaching metric measures.
(Project name MetricComp)

Only drawbacks I've noticed are -- on the IWB is you can't control the text size and it was a bit hard to see from the back of the room when doing whole class stuff.

Also it would be nice to be able to save off the annotated work as a PDF or similar rather than be limited to online or printout.

Handy tool though. The students I can never persuade to make handwritten notes were quite happy using this instead!

[Peter Lambert]

Thanks for this - please keep them coming [clap]

[saha]

This is a great tool to analyze student writing.
There is indeed a way to save the annotated work as PDF file. You just need to choose a virtual pdf printer instead of a regular printer when printing the annotated work.

This would be great to show students on IWB the strenghts and weaknesses of their writing.
The drawback is that after every color coded highlighting, it forces you to type a comment. That could be a drawback unless the user is comfortable using the floating keyboard.