Tsaap-Notes -- An Open Micro-blogging Tool for Collaborative Notetaking during Face-to-Face Lectures

Functionalities provided by Annotation Systems for Learners in Educational Context: An Overview

“…An integration of such Web (3.0) resources (which can also be seen as annotations in the broader sense) with lecture recordings could help to bring together these different sources and to link them where they semantically belong. By integrating for example a lecture recording with a discussion forum, learners could thereby access a forum discussion directly from a slide that covers the topic the forum posts discuss [11]. Although some systems enable classroom interaction by exchanging student annotations, student participation is limited.…”

“…In general, this problem is addressed by either reserving extra space for learner annotations or adding several layers. A collaborative filtering approach could be another interesting attempt [11].…”

“…Thus, recent works focus to provide annotation systems able to recommend data interpreted from learner's annotations. We can quote in this context some research works such as: PDF-Annotator [49] that offers PDFs related to the same topic of annotated text; CASE [20] and Vpen [22] which present videos or images related to the semantics of annotations realized by learner; New-WebAnnot [2] that recommends an assistance by web services interpreted implicitly through learner's annotative activity; Tsaap-Notes [11] which provides a learner profile constructed from his social annotations; and Omheni et al [32] who interpret the personality traits of learner from his annotations.…”

“…Annotations of the same thread are then bound between them in chronological order. With this feature, the users of such systems benefit from annotations in context left by previous annotators [11]. However, each student can comment a resource or an annotation at any time.…”

“…CRAS-RAIDS [23], Tsaap-Notes [11] and Note-Taking [18], among others, offer feature of threads just like forums. Annotations of the same thread are then bound between them in chronological order.…”