Education/Projects/JetpackForLearning/Profiles/Hoovernotes

HooverNotes

[HooverNotes] is a concept for a platform whose goal is to combine book-like annotations with collaborative processing. It shall be realized as a Firefox add-on integrated into the browser allowing to highlight, leave comments about and collect bits of important information related to a topic and several Web pages or a single Web page. These annotations shall take the form of text, hyperlinks, and multimedia content such as videos, images or maps. In this way, the actual Web content shall be augmented and enriched by the users – be it for learning or other purposes.

Annotations may be personal or shared with others, hence enabling knowledge exchange in a classroom setting.

Get started now

Install it!

• Go to the [HooverNotes] site and Install the add-on.

• Accept the Ountrusted source alert and go to about:jetpack

• Then click on Settings and insert your Twitter account.
  • This feature it's not included on the HooverNotes beta version because it did not work properly with the Settings. But will be included in the future.

Now you are ready to begin to annotate the Web with the HooverNotes add-on!

How it works?

Now you have the Hoovernotes installed on your computer, so you would be able to annotate on any Web page.

• In the statusBar you will find an icon (pencil) with a number (at the moment 7, while this feature it's not developed) of all the notes related with the focused URL.
• In the slideBar you will find the Hoovernotes sidebar where you would be able to begin the annotations, highlightings and movements of content from the tabs to the slideBar.

The HooverNotes slideBar header has the instruments to manage and move the content from the Mozilla Firefox tabs to the HooverNotes sidebar. But first of all, the users should be logged as Twitter users at the HooverNotes (not included at the beta version because it sometimes did not work), so every HooverNotes slideBar is personallized with the Twitter picture and Twitter username of the user.

What is HooverNotes?

- If there are future features of Jetpack *not yet implemented* that your project is likely to take advantage of, please a) describe what they are, b) how you will use them and c) what, if any, work-around you used in it's absence.