{"id":2728,"date":"2017-02-04T15:34:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T15:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=2728"},"modified":"2017-02-04T15:34:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T15:34:06","slug":"new-digital-tools-for-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2017\/02\/04\/new-digital-tools-for-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"New Digital Tools for Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hastac.org\/blogs\/rachel-arteaga\/2014\/04\/10\/collaborative-annotation-teaching-close-reading-mit-annotation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastac.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/post_image\/public\/upload\/images\/post\/mit.png?itok=eC9LJVsb\" alt=\"\" width=\"725\" height=\"408\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recently read an interesting article in Educause Review talking about the development of a series of tools to support Social Reading. These tools vary in how they work, but generally allow individuals to create notes\/questions about a digital text and then allow the Professor (and possibly fellow students in the class) to see all the comments. \u00a0With MIT&#8217;s tool more intense color reflects more comments on that part of the text. \u00a0LACOL\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/lacol.net\/category\/collaborations\/working-groups\/active-reading\/\" target=\"_blank\">Active and Engaged Reading (AER) working group<\/a>, also\u00a0focuses on issues of reading in a digital age, including the\u00a0goals\u00a0and practices for\u00a0academic reading as they\u00a0evolve\u00a0on our campuses.<\/p>\n<p>If this sounds like something that would be of interest to your classes, please reach out to the<a href=\"mailto:acadtech@swarthmore.edu\"> Academic Technology<\/a> group.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Educause article:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/er.educause.edu\/articles\/2015\/6\/social-reading-and-technology-design\">Social Reading and Technology Design<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annotationstudio.org\/news\/media\/\">News related to MIT&#8217;s Annotations Studio<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annotationstudio.org\/pedagogy\/case-studies\/\">Case Studies<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read an interesting article in Educause Review talking about the development of a series of tools to support Social Reading. These tools vary in how they work, but generally allow individuals to create notes\/questions about a digital text and then allow the Professor (and possibly fellow students in the class) to see all the comments. \u00a0With MIT&#8217;s tool more intense color reflects more comments on that part of the text. \u00a0LACOL\u2019s Active and Engaged Reading (AER) working group, also\u00a0focuses on issues of reading in a digital age, including the\u00a0goals\u00a0and practices for\u00a0academic reading as they\u00a0evolve\u00a0on our campuses. If this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2017\/02\/04\/new-digital-tools-for-reading\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Digital Tools for Reading<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-technology","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-I0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2728"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2740,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions\/2740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}