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Annotation Practices
Annotation Practices are highlighting a phrase or sentence and including a comment, circling a word that needs defining, posing a question when something isn't fully understood and writing a short summary of a key section. It also invites students to “(re)construct a history through material engagement and exciting DIY (Do-It-Yourself) annotation practices." Annotation practices that are available today offer a remarkable set of tools for students to begin to work, and in a more collaborative, connected way than has been previously possible.

Text and Film Annotation
Text and Film Annotation is a technique that involves using comments, text within a film. Analyzing videos is an undertaking that is never entirely free of preconceived notions, and the first step for researchers is to find their bearings within the field of possible research approaches and thus reflect on their own basic assumptions. Annotations can take part within the video, and can be used when the data video is recorded. It is being used as a tool in text and film to write one's thoughts and emotion into the markings. In any number of steps of analysis, it can also be supplemented with more annotations. Anthropologists Clifford Geertz calls it a "thick description." This can give a sense of how useful annotation is, especially by adding a description of how it can be implemented in film.

Medieval Marginalia
Marginalia refers to writing or decoration in the margins of a manuscript. Medieval marginalia is so well-known that amusing or disconcerting instances of it are fodder for viral aggregators such as Buzzfeed and Brainpickings, and the fascination with other readers’ reading is manifest in sites such as Melville’s Marginalia Online or Harvard’s online exhibit of marginalia from six personal libraries. It can also be apart of other websites such as Pinterest, or even meme generators and GIF tools.

Student uses

Students use Annotation not only for academic purposes, but interpreting their own thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Sites such as Scalar and Omeka are sites that students use. There are muliple genres with Annotation such as math, film, linguists, which students find it most helpful to use. Most students reported the annotation process as helpful for improving overall writing ability, grammar, and academic vocabulary knowledge.