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Author: Daniel Wenner Supervisor: Rune Hjelsvold Outline Introduction Background Research question Method Results Conclusion Questions Introduction Web pages that contain educational material are normally just read passively Normal books allow users to make comments in the margin or highlight important parts for later use Internet allows for sharing information with others System to share annotations with others for web pages useful? Research question Main question: How can we design a system for sharing annotations on a global scale that increases the utility and learning benefit of e-learning material and how will users use such a system? Research question Q1: What attributes are important for a functioning annotation system to support and extend reading and understating of electronic reading material? Q2: How does shared annotations affect the reading and involvement with the text? Q3: How can annotations generate a richer structure for web pages and how can this be utilized? Background Previous comments in books useful for new readers (Marshall, 1997) Many systems died out around 2001 with the dot-com bubble Web browsers and internet technologies are now more robust than in 2001 «Web 2.0» systems are starting to show up that focus on building annotation communities Benefits from more users Method Found the features needed for a shared annotation system by looking at previous contributions and results Implemented a prototype system to use for user testing Qualitative evaluation of interview with users of the prototype Prototype Called Dannotation User loads system with bookmark Loads with a bookmarklet Implemented with PHP, MySQL and JavaScript Allows users to make annotations on any web page by marking text to highlight Shared with everyone that loads the system on that page Allows for links, tags and comments Loads menu into current page Retrives annotations from server Posistions annotations on page Demonstration http://stud.hig.no/~010378/thesis/dannotation User test setup One group of 4 master in media technology students to use prototype on Information retrival HTML book Participants of the courses «Web design» and «Web publishing» to use it on web resources like w3schools Interview with the master students after exam in «Databases in electronic publishing» Supposed to send questionnaire to participants from other courses, but not done yet. 4 students registered, but only two made any annotations. Might be too few Results Six total users. Four made annotations Only one user outside the instruction page This user made 23 of 31 total annotations Most did not open any annotations to see content Results from interview 3 students interviewed, two used the system. The last one had seen it in use All of them agree that it could be a useful tool when reading educational material Usefull to find additional good resources Helps to find important parts of the text Improves distance learning, both between teacher/student and student/ students. Results from interview Sees the use if there were more users The user with most annotations didn’t find the shift+mouseover solution, so he did not view any comments, but did make some Irritating when marking fails. This could happen in information retrieval book because of invalid HTML Conclusion (for now) Too few users to draw conclusions based on results Interview suggests that they like the concept and would use it with more users Interview suggests that there is at least a physiological belief that sharing annotations will help find relevant material Prototype is good example of cross domain communication using script tags and storing DOM ranges More conclusions will be drawn by comparing prototype to previous work Thank you for the attention! Questions?