Announcements

This release adds the ability for instructors to use annotations on student writing as a form of private feedback. When instructors annotate student writing, they will now have the option to set the privacy to "Student," which will allow only the student author and any instructors in the course to see that annotation. Now you can give private feedback on papers using annotations!

This release also includes core updates to Drupal 7.58 to address SA-CORE-2018-002. It's strongly recommended that all Lacuna users update their software.

Poetic Media Lab is proud to introduce its newest project, Layered Translation. Layered Translation will build on the annotation and data visualization tools that we developed for Lacuna and use them to produce "layered" translations: translations that allow readers to go beyond the surface of a text. This project is under development and will be piloted in a course taught by Professors Amir Eshel and Vered Shemtov in Spring, 2018. 

Four faculty members from Foothill, De Anza, and San Mateo community colleges were selected as 2016-17 EPIC (Education Partnership to Internationalize Curriculum) Fellows working with the Poetic Media Lab. The EPIC program is funded by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to internationalize higher education in the United States.

By analyzing best practices for student learning using digital annotation, the Poetic Media Lab has refined model assignments, in-class activities, and steps for instructors to manage and curate annotations for more effective lectures and classroom discussions. The Knowledge Base has sample assignments, lesson plans, in-class activities, and more, all organized by topic and theme tags.