Why is it I see an emerging category of educational technology few others seem to notice? Maybe they are looking in the wrong place or I only notice what matches my particular view of the world.
The emerging category I have noticed I describe as “layering services”. These are online services that allow educators/designers to add annotations of various types (notes, questions, highlights) to existing online content (web pages, video) and direct learners to the composite of the annotations and the original material. I see this as a way to provide the learners that are the responsibility of these educators/designers with educational content in comparison to information (see my previous post). I have written about this category of service in great detail and I see the category growing rapidly.
I have provided some examples with tutorials online and I should now add new examples I have discovered (Timeline.ly, Wakelet, ReClipped).
