Whether for a small group or general audience, publishing content builds student engagement.
Annotation offers accessible publishing that enhance digital materials and OERs with compelling social, interactive and media elements.
Benefits also include better tracking, searching and control of contributions to classroom discussion.
Regular use of these tools (see subpages of this section for some of the most popular) improves research skills, extra-textual analysis and marshaling of varied resources and viewpoints.
Classroom annotation encourages adaptive, creative uses of web content as collaborative publishing becomes more pervasive.