Drumbeat/events/Festival/program/Cohere

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Web Annotation & Knowledge Mapping

Drop by and learn how to combine collaborative web annotation with several forms of knowledge mapping: a different way to learn with peers, online and with free Web resources.

  • Contact: Michelle Bachler [m.s.bachler at open dot ac dot uk]
    * Team: Simon Buckingham Shum, Anna De Liddo, Michelle Bachler
    * Hosts: Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
    * Proposed 'space' or theme: Peer Learning Lighthouse
    * Status: to be confirmed

What do you want to achieve? (goal)

Our primary goal is to meet others interested in or doing web annotation and web-based knowledge mapping, and offer people the chance to play with our prototype, Cohere, an open source Web Annotation and Knowledge Mapping tool.

Viewed through the lens of well known social web tools, Cohere sits at the intersection of

  • web annotation (e.g. Diigo; Sidewiki),
  • social bookmarking (e.g. Delicious), and
  • mindmapping (e.g. MindMeister; Bubbl)

We want to combine the best of these tools to provide online lifelong learners with a way to map their ideas while at the same time browsing and annotating OERs and other free Web resources. BUT we know we're not there yet, so come and tell us how to make it better :-)

  • Come and discuss the pros and cons of different tools
  • Come and play with Cohere
  • Give us usability feedback, feature requests and pedagogical thoughts from learning and tech geeks
  • We also hope to engage with developers and to discuss both the API and the Open Source code.

Who should come? How many? For how long? (audience)

  • Anyone interested to see how social bookmarking meets web annotation and knowledge mapping in the web browser.
  • Educators interested in how to tune generic web apps more for learning, inquiry and sensemaking
  • Everyone is welcome to hang out as long as they want
  • We will run 2 hours per day, each day of the festival

What will they do when they get there? (activities)

We'll show participants a 3 min demo of Cohere and then we'll ask them to put their hands on the tool.

They will highlight and annotate Web pages, make connections between other people's annotations, and craft a map of their thoughts.

They will also be asked if they want to give usability feedback and suggestions by recording a small 2 min video.

What will you / they have at the end? (outputs)

We will get useful usability test and feedback in order to improve the Cohere interface and user experience.
Participants will learn about new ways to interact with the Web as a "notebook", use network visualizations to search and explore their notes and exploit bookmarking to organize them.
Participants will take home leaflets, and printed exercises, together with a fun interaction with the Cohere's team!

Additional background and context

Cohere is developed in KMi, by the Hypermedia Discourse Team lead by Simon Buckingham Shum.
It is one of the learning innovation technology developed within the Open Learning Network Project (OLnet).

Cohere was one of the 10 finalists of the Mozilla Firefox competition Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge.
Please visit this site for more info on the Mozilla competition submission
Or go to the Cohere Website to try it out!

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