2016-11-15 Nota Bene and Perusall
Tuesday 11/15/2016
Learning Objectives -- by the end of this session you will be able to
explain how students connect to and use Nota Bene
create your own NotaBene class, upload papers, add students, check student participation, and visualize student comments
decide how you might want to use Nota Bene or Perusall in your classes
Formative Assessments --
we will have you use Nota Bene as a student and engage in discussion about its ease of use (or lack thereof)
we will have you create your own (mock?) class and practice using it with this group as your class
we will discuss the educational benefits of social reading and how to scale it to a large class
Activity -- Intro and Overview
We introduce each other and Tim gives a brief overview of Social Reading and discusses how Nota Bene and Perusall differ. Here is a link to a site describing Nota Bene and linking to some research papers about its use:
https://oeit.mit.edu/gallery/projects/nb-pdf-annotation-tool
http://nb.mit.edu/subscribe?key=npV3ucUbk96IzOHraiv5DlCGTemfTipVFaQE83fnDWTk85i6so
Tutorial: http://people.csail.mit.edu/sacha/nb/tut-latest/
Activity -- Connecting to Nota Bene as a student
We all connect to Nota Bene and make a few comments on a paper about Nota Bene. The link is
Activity -- Overview of Nota Bene in practice
Tim shows everyone some examples of students using Nota Bene in his classes.
Activity -- Creating a class
We go through the steps of creating a class, adding students (each other), uploading a pdf into a folder, etc.