Exploratory Learning with Text, Image and Voice Annotations.

Exploratory Learning with Text, Image and Voice Annotations.

Learning is not a tough, consuming exercise that we’re led to believe by schools, teachers and parents. As human beings, we keep learning all the time. Did you remember when you touched a steaming vessel and learned to look for steam?

Did you remember when you touched a steaming vessel and learned to look for steam?

Did you remember when you touched a steaming vessel and learned that it’s hot?

Do you remember cutting yourself with a nail-cutter and learned to be careful?

Learning is a continuous process. We keep learning all the time even when we don’t realize that. Classmint is built for the natural form of learning. i.e. exploratory learning. Classmint annotations help with exploring information and learning from it thru Active Recall as we explore it.

Text and Voice Annotations

Selecting the text inside a note shows a context menu which lets you annotate the text with either more text/images or voice. Here’s how it looks.

Once you click that Explain, a complete box appears to help create the annotation.

Now, It’s possible to create a rich annotation using text, images, links, code-snippet, formula using this dialog box. A learner who is exploring this note can click the annotated text to reveal more information.

Clicking on a text annotation will reveal more information in the form of a dark text dialog, as shown above. A voice annotation will play the recorded voice on click.

Image Annotation

In Classmint study note, one can add an image and annotate it. The process of annotating is a bit different. After inserting the image, one should click on Explain at bottom-right of the image as shown in the image below.

Once you click on the Explain, you will see the image popping up like below. Now, you can click on it and explain any part of the image with an image annotation.

The key difference between text and image annotations on Classmint: Text annotations require a click to reveal them and image annotations reveal on hover.

Looking to explore more. If you like/hate the idea, please leave the comments