I have been doing some informal work with Jeremy Dean and Jon Udell on their killer annotation layer, Hypothes.is. I asked in a recent email,
I spent hours this morning checking out blog posts on Jon Udell’s personal blog as well as his writing at Hypothes.is and found that my wish was their command. You can use some manual tricks to get RSS feeds from Hypothes.is tags, users, or URL’s. Here is the relevant info from the post
For example, if you wanted to gather together all of the “ParticipatoryCulture” tags into one feed you would create this feed: https://hypothes.is/stream.rss?tags=participatoryculture
Here is the result in my rss aggregator, Inoreader, as a ‘bundle’:
ParticipatoryCulture bundle on Inoreader
Here is the code for the rss from all of my annotations on Hypothes.is from my own username, tellio:https://hypothes.is/stream.rss?user=tellio
Here is the result in Inoreader as a bundle:
Hypothes.is Bundle: tellio feed bundle on Inoreader
Here is the code for all of the annotations for a particular URL: https://hypothes.is/stream.rss?uri=http://hackeducation.com/2014/11/04/programmed-instruction-versus-the-programmable-web/
Here, once again, is the rss bundle in Inoreader
The Future of Education: Programmed or Programmable? bundle on Inoreader
Smashup Hypothes.is and Inoreader and get an annotation management system. One caveats. First, you will need to do considerable manual coding of rss feeds. If you are a teacher, get students to do that themselves and send you the appropriate username in a Google Form.)
This will be one of my strategies this semester in my university course “Writing in the Disciplines”. I am trying to re-conceive this learning space. I want a participatory architecture that builds from the learners up with just a few initial conditions.
Group annotation will be one way to do this. Expanding the notion of what “text” is and what “research” is and what tools are available to help us do that. More reports from the scene, more strategy from the trail later.
The image below is a touchstone for further potential participation spaces. It was prepared by Daniel Bassill and can be found here in his Google+ collection.
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Enlisting student (and/or volunteer) talent and manpower in this process is essential.
I attended a hearing in Chicago on Monday, Jan. 25, 2016, where research was presented showing seriously high levels of unemployment of Black and Hispanic youth, age 20-24. Chicago is one of the worst cities for this problem, and maps show that it is concentrated in high poverty, high violence, areas of the city.
I wrote about this in a blog story at http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2016/01/engaging-volunteer-mentors-in-youth.html and have been pointing to the research via social media channels.
In my article, I showed that long-term engagement as a volunteer tutor/mentor can lead some people to be more deeply involved in the lives of urban youth, and the challenges of poverty.
I also suggested that young people can learn to present information and their own stories and ideas, using blogs and social media, and integrating maps and data, leading to greater impact, and greater involvement of more people. This is happening to a certain extent on sites like Youth Voices.
What you’ve been doing to point people to my articles, and to encourage deeper engagement with this information, using hypothes.is and other tools, is a vitally important bridge connecting others to this work. Unless we unleash the time and talent of many, many others too few will be involved and not much will change.