Layer for Learning

collaborative bibliography on annotation, curated by members of AnnotatED, the community for annotation in education that includes educators, researchers, and technologists from organizations that engage deeply with collaborative annotation as a transformative practice in teaching and learning.

Insert Learning - administration and sharing Insert Learning (originally DocentEDU) is a page layering service developed specifically for K-12 settings. This video describes the setup, administration and sharing of content.

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1- Diigo Diigo is the first web service that comes into mind when talking about web annotation. . Diigo has a tool that lets you annotate web pages, add notes and colour specific chunks of a paragraph to share with your colleagues. 2- Sharedcopy This is another great bookmarking and annotating web service. It allows users to save a web page and annotate it the way they want via adding comments in text boxes or highlighting important parts. It also has a social ingredient in it in that users can share their annotated content with each other. 3- Awesome Screenshot This is one of my favourites. It is a chrome and Safari extension that allows users to capture screenshots of their webpage and then draw on them lines, annotate them, add text and comments, and share them with others. If you are a Chrome or Safari user then this is indispensable. 4- Bounce This is also a great annotating tool. It is very easy to use. Just type in the URL of a webpage and Bounce will then create an image of it allowing you thus to add text and annotate it.You will also be able to share your annotated content via a unique URL. 5- Markup.io This is mainly a bookmarklet that you can drag and drop onto your browser toolbar. Once there you can then very easily annotate any webpage you are viewing by simply clicking on that bookmarklet. Again when you finsih adding amd drawing on your webpage you can share it with others via a generated URL. 6- Screen Draw This is an awesome extension from Firefox that allows users to annotate their selected webpages. Users can  circle elements, type in notes, or draw on any webpage they want before saving the annotated work as PNG or JPG files. 7- Webpage Screenshot This is a Chrome extension that allows users to take a screenshot of a webpage and add their own drawings or arrows. 8- Jing This is another awesome tool that allows users to create annotated screen capture images. Once you take a screenshot of your webpage you can then add text, arrows, draw on it  and highlight sections of text within it. 9- Crocodoc This a great tool that lets users annotate , edit and share their PDFs, Power Point files, and Word Documents. It is very easy to use and all it takes is you uploading the file you want to work on and select your marking tool and there you go. You can also share with your colleagues. 10- Yawas This is another free web annotation tool for both Firefox and Chrome. It allows users to highlight text and annotate webpages and with a single right click save the annotated work to Google Bookmarks. 11- MyStickies This a free tool that lets users place little yellow squares of digital paper anywhere in a webpage. 12- Draw Here This a bookmarklet that you can add to your toolbar  in order to be able to draw on top of any webpage when you are browsing the web. You might also like: The Impact of Google on Our Memory 10 Web Tools to Help you Integrate Technology into your ... http://widget6.linkwithin.com/redirect?url=http%3A//www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/12/great-subject-area-web-tools-for.html&rtype=&vars=%5B%22http%3A//www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/06/13-free-web-annotation-tools-teachers.html%22

Bookmarking for the Exceptionally Inquisitive Annotary is the smarter way to save and circulate information. Bookmark and highlight web pages, take notes, share ideas.

ThingLink is the leading platform for creating interactive images and videos for web, social, advertising, and educational channels.

Easily Assess Student Engagement With Video Lessons With This Powerful Free Application

RespectWeb highlighting isn’t a new idea, and we’re not the first or only folks working on it. We’re particularly inspired by Craig Mod’s studies, Kevin Marks’ fragmentions proposal, M.G. and Anil’s strong Tweetshot games, and of course the Medium team’s delicious, platform-wide implementation.

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This is where VideoNot.es comes in.  It is useful open source Google Drive add-on (and Chrome extension) that provides an easy integration of video notetaking for student and faculty use.  What VideoNot.es does is load an online video into a template that synchronizes notes with the video.

Capture important moment of online video TurboNote provides in-page video note taking experience, it helps you keep your ideas right with the video. You can easily come back and review the video and idea at specifc moment any time you want!

TurboNote has powerful build-in share engine to make sure others can reach your video notes and important moments conveniently. Users can also post their video notes on social networks, like Facebook, Twiiter, G+ and LinkedIn.

This site brings together theory, practice and resources on online social annotation in higher ed classrooms.

Can I share a link to just my set of annotations on a page (without sharing other people’s annotations)?Yup, to share a link to just your annotations, select your name from the drop-down at the top of the annotation column, then close the annotation column and copy the link out of the browser’s URL bar.

Annotate, collect, and share parts of online videos Share anywhere, LEGALLY. No downloading or screen-recording involved.