RESOURCES YOU CAN USE

Compiled by Jennifer Rimm

VKP faculty increasingly are looking to use simple tools to annotate student work. In this "Resources You Can Use," we offer annotated links to sites which introduce some basic annotating, commenting and tracking changes tools in MS Word and Adobe Acrobat. We also provide a link to a tool for annotating web pages created by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

ANNOTATING AND TRACKING CHANGES IN MS WORD:

Tracking Changes in MS Word 97 (PC) and Word 98 (Mac)

http://lpc1.clpccd.cc.ca.us/lpc/vigallon/pdc/tr-track.htm http://lpc1.clpccd.cc.ca.us/lpc/vigallon/pdc/tracking.pdf

The Las Positas College Professional Development Center offers this guide to tracking changes in Microsoft Word 97 (PC) or Word 98 (Mac) as both a webpage and .PDF file. On the web version you will find a step-by-step list explaining how an instructor can comment on a student's written work, return it to the student for revisions, and then compare the original document with the revised document. The .PDF file organizes this same content around helpful screen shots of the procedures.

Tracking Changes in MS Word 2000

http://www.cof.orst.edu/net/software/msword/trkchngs.php

This site assembles a series of articles on tracking changes in MS Word 97 and 2000. Written by Woody Leonhard for Woody's Office for Mere Mortals, the articles cover techniques for editing with the Tracking Changes feature whether as a sole author or when working with others. Topics include using the review function, making notes or suggestions in a document, allowing other people to add comments, color-coding reviews, and comparing two documents. Leonhard's is a quick and easy to follow instructional aid.

Word Revision: Track Changes, Annotations, & Merge Documents

http://ccl.english.ohio-state.edu/handouts/miscellaneous/word/ revision_track_changes.htm

This electronic “handout” compiles information covered in the Window’s Help feature. It provides a good basic overview of how to use Microsoft Word's Track Changes and Insert Comment features as tools for collaborative editing.

Using Tracking & Reviewing Features in Microsoft Word Tutorial

http://continuinged.uml.edu/online/tutorial/word_tracking/

An online tutorial from the University of Massachusetts organized by “what you want to do” at each step of the review process. The tutorial addresses how to prepare a document for review, track changes, add comments, accept or reject changes, compare documents, and integrate multiple revisions. Directions are supplemented by screen shots and several interactive tutorials.

Using Comments and Tracking in MS Word 2000

http://faculty.tui.edu/williamsl/word_revisions/using_comments.htm

Union Institute’s Instructional Technology site provides the most extensive information regarding the Comments feature, including instructions for inserting comment balloons, using review panes, creating audio comments, and reviewing, editing, or deleting comments.

Egrading: MS Word Grading Tools--Using Comments

http://www.dickinson.edu/it/instructionaltechnology/
tutorials/egrading/egrading32.shtml

Simple, two paragraph instructions on adding comments from Dickinson College.

Tech Tv Windows Tip: Record Comments
in MS Word

http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/windowstips/
story/0,24330,3391196,00.html

This "Window's Tip" from Tech TV features a short how-to on making and inserting audio comments in MS Word.

ANNOTATING AND COMMENTING IN ADOBE ACROBAT:

Tutorial: Add, view, and exchange comments

http://www.adobe.co.uk/epaper/tips/acr5comments/main.html

Adobe's online tutorial introduces the coding and comments features available in Adobe Acrobat. A good place to learn the basics of the Notes tool.

Working in Adobe to Create Electronic Portfolios

http://www.falmouthschools.org/Technology/
AcrobatForStudentPortfolios.pdf

Falmouth Public Schools offers this well-organized guide to assembling a portfolio of student work using Adobe Acrobat. The section called "Annotating Files" summarizes several methods of embedding comments in .PDF files, including the notes tool, free text, sound recordings, and the stamp tool.

CreativePro.com Acrobat How-To: Using Comments Effectively

http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/16990.html

This feature article gives advice on how to manage and organize electronic feedback from more than one reviewer of a .PDF file. The author explains procedures for adding comments to a completed document, exporting these comments to a separate file, and reincoporating them into the original. The article also notes different options for consolidating comments from multiple users.

ANNOTATING IMAGES, MOVIES AND WEBSITES:

Web Scrapbook

http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/scrapbook/

George Mason University's Center for History and New Media designed this Web Scrapbook to serve as "a clipping file for the Internet." Users can store all kinds of media--web sites, images, excerpts, and movies--and share these items with others who have the CHNM online scrapbook. The collaborative environment allows any user with access to your folders to annotate, sort, delete, and add memos to the items from any computer with an internet connection.

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