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RESOURCES YOU CAN USE
Annotating Visual Evidence of Student Learning
By Michael Coventry
As VKP faculty have become increasingly interested in teaching students
about images and having students produce multimedia projects in their
classrooms, they have needed to annotate student products which use visual
evidence. In response to these needs, a workshop on marking up visual
evidence of student learning was held at the 2003 VKP Summer Institute.
Participants explored various tools together. The following are some of
the tools explored in that session.
Adobe Acrobat
(Full Version)
- The user purchases a separate application, Adobe Acrobat, which lives
on the user's desktop
- Produces marked-up documents which are readable using the Acrobat
Reader, a very common document format
- Relatively easy to use, the user places a "comment" on a portion of
the image
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When a note is added onto a PDF file, it appears directly
on the image. |
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If the note box is closed, a marker (the yellow conversation
bubble in the top left) appears where the user specified. |
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- The portion of image referenced is a bit general (Acrobat produces
an image representing a post-it note, which is placed around the area
of the image you wish to reference)
- Acrobat is expensive; although with an academic discount, it costs
about $100
- Relatively easy to collaboratively markup images-each user with the
full version of Acrobat can add comments in layers on an image (each
person's comments are identified clearly as being by that person)
Fotonotes
- Free, online resource
- Allows users to upload jpg images (no built-in tools to create screen
captures or the like)
- Users can annotate individual sections of an image by drawing boxes
around them
- Boxes create rollovers-when a user rolls their mouse over an image
which has a box, text pops up
- Images are stored in a central, online database
Web Scapbook
- Another free, online resource
- Users can store and comment on snapshots of webpages, images from
webpages, or selected text from webpages with the snapshot tool at George
Mason's Center for History and New Media
- Users can add comments to the entire webpage, image, or selected text,
but this tool offers no way to comment on specific portions of these
- A suite of capture tools integrates into the user's web browser
Snag-It
- Users can capture content off the internet: individual images, text,
tables, entire image collections.
- This content can then be edited using the many tools provided by Snag-It
(such as the hightlighter tool shown below).
- The content can also be annotated using Snag-It's note utility.
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