1. Building Communities of Teaching and Learning Through Technology Hope Hartman and Campbell Dalglish, CCNY CUNY General Education Conference May 4, 2007

2. What does HyLighter look like? How does it work? The official HyLighter site: http://www.hylighter.com Take a tour on your own time! A CCNY area with my data: https://70.91.117.53/ccny

3. HyLighter: Online Interactive Annotation What are students thinking? –Their thinking becomes externalized as they mark up text and/or graphic documents How can students learn from and with others? Students compare their ideas with those of other students and the professor with Compare All and Table features. –Comment on each others’ ideas –Deepen understanding of content –Learn alternative strategies –Evaluate own performance

4. How Does HyLighter Work? Cont. What control does the professor have? –Set time access to information in sequence of stages –Choose between named and anonymous contributions –Further customize based on your needs (Campbell will discuss) What makes HyLighter unique? Color coded system of comparison

5. Using Hylighter to Improve Teaching & Learning in Undergraduate Teacher Education Course: Adolescent Learning & Development Reading and responding to a document assigned to the class, “The Biology of Risk Taking”. Working on a group project selected individually, probing questions and lesson plan from InTime. Taking an exam: explanatory multiple choice, essays