What's good, Josh, we're on spec again with another video. So I'm going to check out the worst rated WrestleMania events of all time. This should be a very interesting one. I want to see what's the top worst rated WrestleMania of all time by wrestling bios. Appreciate all the love and support you guys on channel. We're going to get right into this one. So long video.  The WWE's annual WrestleMania shows supposed to be the biggest event the company presents each and every year for sure over the years. It's morphed into this giant weekend of wrestling action that attracts fans from countries all over the world and the spectacle of WrestleMania itself is enough to draw fans in and sell tickets without a single match even being announced. Expectations around WrestleMania are always high and the WWE have delivered exceptional WrestleMania shows in the past, but they've also produced some pretty abysmal Mania shows too that their fans are a little disappointed. Today, I want to check out what fans voted for as the 10 worst WrestleMania's in company history. Like the WCW hash rank matches video I put together previously, I used cage match to get our scores today. I think it's important to get a score from a group of fans rather than spewing my own personal bias all over the place, but I won't talk if I agree with the ranking or not. And just before we begin, WrestleMania 2 was included multiple times in the list due to it being held in different locations. So the score was averaged out and I've only included it once in this video. There's no point in including it multiple times. All right, let's get into this one then. Number 10 is WrestleMania 12 from Anaheim, California. I talked about Mania 12 quite a bit on the channel. I covered it for the reliving the war series and yes, I can see why people wouldn't rank this Mania very highly. Business wasn't great in 1996 and improvements needed to be made in all aspects of the company from overall presentation, the new stars from match bookings and the rivalries taken place. No doubt the divisive 60 minute Bret Hart versus Shawn Michaels match has lent itself to this low score. Fans either love it or hate it and the negative crowd will always be louder than the positive crowd. But even though I like the Iron Man match, it's undeniable that a match of this length will cause the undercar to suffer due to time constraints. Add in the fact that Diesel and Undertaker went over 15 minutes to excluding entrances and you can imagine there wasn't much time for anything else really. Including Bret versus Shawn, this Mania only had six matches with one of those being a one and a half minute squash. So yeah, Ticker versus Diesel and Hart versus Michaels are matches I enjoy. But as a complete WrestleMania package, the show does kind of suffer. At number nine, we have WrestleMania 29 from East Rutherford, New Jersey. Headlined by John Cena versus The Rock after WWE promoted their previous match is once in a lifetime. Fans felt the wrong main event was booked and CM Punk should have headlined this event. But in saying that, I thought the CM Punk versus Undertaker semi-main event match was pretty good. And I also thought that I was good. I enjoyed their matches. In my opinion, I think it's highly underrated as one of the better Undertaker WrestleMania matches. In my opinion, I think it's underrated. It's a pretty good match. Build up to that particular match was done pretty well.  The Triple H versus Brock Lesnar match could have been better. Alberto DeRio versus Jack Swagger for the word belt. Naudez is completely forgettable. Not a great show to be honest, but I still recommend checking out Punk versus Ticker. That main event though was just way too predictable. Yeah, you knew it was going to win. Good old John 32 from Dallas, Texas comes in at number eight and man, I remember being so hyped for this mania due to the record setting crowd that was going to attend the Cowboys Stadium in 2016. Roman Reigns defeated Triple H for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship in the main event and the fans in attendance were still not prepared to cheer for Roman. Many felt around this time period that the big dog was being shoved down their throats and so the audience cheered for Hunter if they weren't just outright booing the match altogether. Yeah, it's a slow one for sure. It's just under half an hour long and you do feel you've maybe wasted your time when the event comes to an end. It's a shame too because the show had so much potential with it being in such a large venue, but it did fall flat and I agree that 32 is one of the low points in WrestleMania history. Brock Lesnar versus Dean Ambrose was terrible. An Undertaker versus Shane McMahon sale match that had an insane jump from the top of the sale remains largely forgotten. Honestly, many people think the opening ladder match with Zack Ryder winning the IC title is the highlight of the whole show. At number 7 we have WrestleMania 5 coming from Atlantic City, New Jersey. The main event had a great build and the whole WrestleMania was themed around the mega parts exploding in the headliner. Fans do remember the main event quite fondly, but it's practically everything that happened before the match that gives it a low score. Now, I will say that I enjoyed the Rockers versus Akeem and the Boss Man and I also enjoyed Strike Force versus the Brainbusters, but yeah, it is a slog to get through and it is also very bloated. The audience were pretty flat before Hulk Hogan made his entrance. We get the return of Piper's Pit here, but the long segment seems to be a big complaint about the show. I mean, it is a product of its time and if you keep your expectations in check, it isn't absolutely terrible, but do know what you're getting yourself into before committing 3 hours and 40 minutes of your day to watch this event. Damn. Be prepared to be committed to it. At number 6 it's WrestleMania 1 from Madison Square Garden, New York City. The importance of Mania 1 in 1985 can't be overstated and the story behind the event coming together is also very fascinating. As the genesis of the biggest wrestling show of the year, WrestleMania 1 does kind of get put on a pedestal and in a way, it also gets a buy ball in terms of criticism due to the magnitude of the historic show. Fans on cagematch.net have judged the show based on the matches that took place and indeed, WrestleMania 1 does not feature the best wrestling matches in the World's Battle. There's a great atmosphere in the garden for WrestleMania 1 though and when you mix in the importance of the event with the way this new idea was presented, I think WrestleMania 1 is still watchable. This is a pretty big success story after all and there's that thing about knowing where you've been to appreciate where you are now, but you've got quite a few quick matches that average around 5-6 minutes and a tag team main event that was hyped up pretty well but doesn't make for the best viewing experience nowadays. I appreciate this one for what it is and I think it gets by on the fact that it's the real granddaddy of them all. I can see why it's ranked so low and you got a respect too that the matches really aren't up to par, but I still like WrestleMania 1 quite a bit. At number 5, it's WrestleMania 27 from 2011 held in the Georgia Dome. A lot of ups and downs in this one is a great YouTuber mindset. It starts off brilliantly with Edge defeating Alberto Del Rio for the World Heavyweight Championship. We get what I thought was a good no-holds-bar match between Triple H and Undertaker and I also didn't mind the main event all that much with the Miz successfully defending his WWE Championship against John Cena, but I can also name a lot of Mania main events that were better, you know. It's another Mania event that leaves you feeling kinda empty when it's all over. It gets totally dragged down with a Michael Cole vs. Jerry Lawlermatch that even Steve Austin couldn't save, although it was funny watching Stone Cold laugh at what was going on. He then had the Rock hosting the event, which was another sore point for a lot of viewers. The Rock hosting Mania was fine, that part was okay, but many felt the great one took away from the main event when he interfered to cause John Cena the championship, essentially setting up the next WrestleMania main event while simultaneously hurting this one. Mania 27 certainly isn't my favorite WrestleMania. I wouldn't say it's awful though. Edge vs. Del Rio, CM Punk vs. Randy Orton, Cody Rhodes vs. Ray Mysterio, and Triple H vs. Undertaker are still worth a watch, but as mentioned, you do leave this one feeling like there should have been more. WrestleMania 15 ranks in at number 4 and I was surprised to see this on our list today, but the more I think about it, the more I can understand why people didn't like it. Held in the First Union Center in Philadelphia, Mania 15's an early attitude era WrestleMania that, at times, felt like an extended episode of Raw's War. The main event features Stone Cold Steve Austin winning the WWF Championship from the Rock, and that's fine. Practically any match these two would have instantly becomes a classic, and even though this is my least favorite match in the Rock vs. Austin WrestleMania trilogy, it's still a solid main event. In between matches, you've got a lot going on though, with China turning her back on Kane and Triple H turning his back on X-Pok, these kinds of backstabbing rarely happened at WrestleMania and at the time at least, I felt this kind of thing may have been more suited to weekly TV. I don't know, it sounds silly saying that Held turns and more elaborate storyline development shouldn't happen at Mania, and the big Held turn that happened at Survivor Series months prior went on really well, but I always remember being a bit surprised that they let this perceived breakup of D-Generation X happen at a WrestleMania show. Shane McMahon vs. X-Pok was entertaining though, I thought. I also don't mind the opening Triple Threat hardcore match, but the show does have quite a few low points including the Bart Gun vs. Butterbean Brawl for All Contest. Fans admired Bart Gun for pulling out a few big upset victories in the 1998 Brawl for All tournament, and they were pretty disappointed when the WWF found nothing for Bart to do immediately after winning that tournament. The company then decided to bring him back to WrestleMania for a Brawl for All match against a professional boxer who knocked Bart out in around 30 seconds. You've also got an underwhelming Hell in a Cell match.  He clocked him. That was wild. In the worst Cell match up until that point, the Undertaker wrestled the Big Boss Man in a 10 minute Cell match that failed to excite fans. The post-match public hanging of the Big Boss Man didn't go down well either for many people. Yeah, that was kind of a little bit too much there. In at number three, from the parking lot of Caesar's Palace Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, it's WrestleMania 9. The world's largest Toga party. This event has been absolutely ripped apart over the years and yeah, there's a lot of dislike about Mania 9. But before we get all negative, I will say that the presentation of this WrestleMania I thought was pretty good. Sure, you don't have the most die hard wrestling fans in attendance and I'm sure many of the announcers would have preferred not wearing a Toga on pay-per-view television. But you can instantly recall what Mania 9 looked like thanks to its unique venue and location. Another positive I want to bring up is the 14-minute Stanners versus Head Shrinkers match. I know people disagree, but I really like that match. You imagine the Stanners and the Samoans taking part in a hard-hitting contest and I thought they delivered in that respect. The opening to Toga versus Shawn Michaels match isn't too bad either. I mean, it's not the best opener in Mania history, but it's fine for what it is. So why do the majority of fans see WrestleMania 9 as one of the absolute worst in WWF or WWE history? Well, when things get low at Mania 9, they get really, really low. Jim Gonzalez versus Undertaker is considered by many to be the worst match to ever take place at WrestleMania and certainly the worst when it comes to Undertaker on the Feated Street. You've got some double Duncan going on in the mid-card and I'll admit, I don't mind this as much as others due to the sheer silliness of it all, but then you've got old Hogan coming in at the end to swoop in and take away the WWF Championship. For many, that was and still is completely unforgivable. The WWF had problems in 1993 and not many kids wanted to talk about wrestling anymore. The company needed to move forward and usher in a new generation that could hopefully draw in new fans and recapture those who got tired of the same old stuff. It could potentially fail, but they had to do something. Bret Hart had gained a lot of momentum in WWF. Yoko Zuna was a new breed of villain that looked absolutely unstoppable. So you can imagine how deflating it was to have Hulk Hogan come down the ringside after Yoko Zuna beat Bret Hart just to take the belt away from Big Yoko in an unpromptu final match. Hogan fans will argue that there was nothing wrong with this. The fans at Caesar's Palace also seemed to enjoy the final moments of the pay-per-view, but it was incredibly short-sighted as proven in the weeks following Mania 9. That new generation would come to fruition as the year went on and it didn't really fix WWF's woes in terms of viewership and popularity. No one can say Hulk Hogan wasn't a draw anymore in 1993 because he most definitely was, but it feels like WWF were having this struggle between generations in Mania 9 where the company didn't really know what to do and how to move forward. Take for example, Bob Backland versus Razor Ramon II. The old guard in the babyface Backland was booed in favor of the villainous Razor Ramon, a sign of the times that WWF took way too long to acknowledge. That's usually what they do sometimes now. WrestleMania II comes in at number two, taking place in 1986 from three different locations, New York, Chicago, and LA. As mentioned, Cagematch had three different entries for Mania II, but all three made it to the top 10. I just used the mean score average and it ends up being the second worst WrestleMania in history, according to those who scored all three shows. I always see the first four WrestleMania's as experiments. WrestleMania I was WrestleMania I, an experiment in itself. WrestleMania II was held in different venues. WrestleMania III was to see if WWF could sell out of stadium. In WrestleMania IV changed the whole format by hosting a tournament. You can kinda see that WWF were trying to work out exactly what WrestleMania was gonna be during these early days. And, you know, when you hear that an event is gonna get held in multiple venues, it does sound kinda fascinating in a way, but there's more negatives than positives to Mania II and it turns out to be a real dud. Booker Dusty Rhodes decided that Stargate 85 held weeks after WWF's wrestling classic event should be held in two locations. The traditional Greensboro Coliseum in the Omni in Atlanta, Georgia. Many felt that Dusty took McMahon's idea of close circuit broadcasting and used it to his advantage to broadcast matches from one venue to another. A match would happen in the Coliseum and then the fans would watch a match from the Omni and vice versa. So, it's widely believed that Vince McMahon saw this and decided, well, if they can do two venues, we can top them with three venues. In comparison to the previous WrestleMania, there would be a lot more celebrities. The roster would get equally split so each venue had its own main event and just like Stargate fans who bought a ticket to any WrestleMania 2 show would be able to watch the other matches on Jan's screens inside their chosen venue. So, what was the problem? Well, it's hard to explain, but it feels like there's way too much going on at WrestleMania 2 and if you watch the original broadcast of Mania II, it feels like WWF weren't very prepared in terms of the overall production and presentation of the show. You can see and hear the broadcast team waiting for their cues when switching from one venue to another. You've got celebrities on commentary who really don't know what they're talking about or anything about the matches they've been paid to discuss. You've got maybe too many matches with quite a few of them being pretty awful such as Mr. T versus Roddy Piper and the abysmal Paul Orndor versus Don Morocco opener. Though I will say this, in comparison to Mania I, you've got a lot more wrestlers leaning into their gimmick and in terms of overall character, the wrestlers involved in Mania II seem more like superstars, if that makes sense. George Steele versus Randy Savage is a fun little five minute match. The British Bulldogs versus the Dream Teams, a good tag team encounter. And while it's far, far from the best cage match in WWF history, Hulk Hogan versus King Kong Bundy was fine due to its overall simplicity. It's a match that gave fans exactly what they wanted and what the fans wanted was Hulkamania running wide. As mentioned, WrestleMania II is an experiment. Turns out it's a failed experiment that WWF wouldn't try again. Though think about this, in today's wrestling climate and with WrestleMania now being over two days, do you think WWE may try to do multiple venues again for WrestleMania? Honestly, I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility anymore. I mean, I hope they don't. Just keep it in one venue. But I wouldn't be surprised if it's one of, you know, kind of double it up. I don't think they should. It is a little bit too much. I think WrestleMania should be in one venue for two nights so people can have that moment. You know what I'm saying? Instead of it being shared somewhere else, having one venue for two nights. I'm all for it. You've probably worked this out for yourself or you probably knew what the worst mania of all time was going to be at the very start of this video. So taking the number one spot is the absolute worst WrestleMania of all time. According to the guys and girls at cagematch.net It's WrestleMania 11 held at the Hartford Civic Center in Connecticut. 1995 wasn't a great year for WWF though I believe we can't call it the worst year in company's history anymore in terms of creativity. Fans who watch WrestleMania 11 out of choice will try to look past the bad stuff that happened before and after the pay-per-view and try to enjoy it for what it is. But my God. I have a kind of personal connection with this WrestleMania. It was the first WWF tape I ever bought after saving up my own money as a kid. And you know how it is. If it's something that you bought and something you wanted then you're going to have a slightly biased viewpoint when you sit there and try to convince yourself that something's better than what it really is. I had that same thing going on with WrestleMania 11 for a good few years. But to be honest, yeah, it's not good. It's pretty bad. Now, I will always stand by this. Shawn Michaels versus Diesel is a good match. I know there's some nonsense going on heading into the match with some disagreements about how things are going to play out, but HBK getting aggressively competitive while trying to blow Diesel up and Kevin hanging in there to prove he can keep up with Shawn. I feel that's pretty entertaining. It's two friends almost trying to sabotage each other in a way but doing it within the confines of what needs to be done, you know. And while it's absolutely not for everyone, I still find it a fun 20-minute title match that gets unfairly criticized. Kurt Angle was another guy who liked to leverage his conditioning during wrestling matches and he would also try to tire his opponents out just to see if they could keep up. It maybe goes against two guys working together for the benefit of the show, but it does make for some entertaining matchups. Back to WrestleMania 11, though. Lawrence Taylor and Bam Bam Bigelow were placed in the main event and this upset HBK and Diesel quite a bit. LT did surprise viewers with his in-ring offense and Bam Bam was instrumental in making sure the match turned out fine, but turning out fine isn't really what a WrestleMania main event is all about. Many fans didn't care much for a celebrity main event either. It is okay, but in my opinion, it shouldn't have headlined the show. As for the rest of the card, it's absolutely brutal. The I Quit match with Bret Hart versus Bob Backlund wasn't good and the Hitman says it's one of the worst matches he's ever had. The Allied Powers versus Blue Brothers opening match has nothing going for it at all. Razor Ramon versus Jeff Jarrett to let down and the DQ finish doesn't help matters either. You've got The Undertaker taking part in another bad WrestleMania match only this time it's against King Kong Bundy and there's also a tag title change when Owen Hart and mystery partner Yoko Zuna defeat the smoking guns. That one sounds alright on paper, but Big Yoko is starting to decline around this time period and the match suffers a bit because of it. Honestly, there's only one reason for me to watch WrestleMania 11 these days and that's for the title match. The rest I can hardly live with never saying again. You don't get anything out of WrestleMania 11 really and it's not even an empty feeling you're left with.  So do you agree with these rankings? Did the folks over at cagematch.net vote unfairly or do you think it was on the money? Are there any of these WrestleMania's that you liked? Let me know in the comments. The great thing about wrestling is that it's very subjective. Of course. You're going to have a more personal connection to some WrestleMania events more than others. Maybe you remember watching one of these shows with friends or family. Maybe you bought a tape like I did as a kid and you feel a bit more connected to one of these shows. Maybe you even attended one of these shows and you have great memories of the trip and sitting in the arena while watching the matches take place. Whatever the case, let me know because there's really no wrong answers when it comes to things like this and there's absolutely no shame in enjoying something that others don't. Of course. But I'm going to do this again for other events and other promotions in the future. So I'll soon tackle events like StarCade, Survivor Series, ECW events, things like that. I'll also cover the best shows so it's not all negative. If you subscribe to the channel, you'll be doing me a massive favor. Hey man, subscribe to wrestling bios. I'm going to go ahead and like the video. Leave a link to the original video. We'll be down below.  If you can remember one where even if you was there in person, you was just like, this was a waste of my time. This was boring. Let me know your worst WrestleMania experience. Worst one of all time. There's plenty to choose from. Not all of them are bad.  But there are some that are just like, yo, this is not what's up. I'm not feeling this. So let me know your worst WrestleMania in your opinion of all time. But I appreciate all love and support. Road to 150k. And I'm still getting speedy. You too, wrestling champion world. Appreciate you kicking me. See you next one. Peace.


Oh, that was a read! Reads! Okay, let's go. I'm back. How's it going, everybody? Dachodui here back with another Dragon Ball Fighters video, and oh boy, it's a Pride Trooper. Blue... Ha ha ha ha! Summer Freeza looking, uh, good, I guess. That is pretty cool. I like the blue color scheme they gave everybody, even though it kind of looks like... I don't know, it doesn't look very Fighters for some reason. I am getting messed up here. Hold on, let me be a Vegeta player real quick. Anyway, our team today was kind of loosely based off of, I don't really know what else to do for them. Ah, see, that was way too soon. I don't really know what else to do for Genemba in terms of theming, so I'm just going to play characters that people say are really good with Genemba. And one big one for that is Vegeta, because he kind of... Genemba's assist finally fills another, like, Go-Tanks-esque role. Ah, then the Super Dash was really good there. By the way, can I say this connection is really good. Cross-up. That was a classic cell player move. That was really good. Dude, I tried to stop blocking there. Ah, I should have sparked. I should have known that my defense wasn't going to get me out of that. We are probably dead here. Unfortunately, Genemba took a big beating. All right, let's back up. Two bars only. Guys, that is really not good. Cooler, wait, why is that my rank? By the way, in terms of cooler players, he's pretty good. As I'm getting beat up by Cooler. Oh, that is... I don't know why that finds me. Whoa, that was nice. Oh, he actually down-heavyed that. Okay, fake beams, fake beams. Or fake vanish, I guess I should say. The beam was pretty real. Take the full beating from Cooler. I don't mind, honestly. I kind of wanted to spark any... I mind. I extremely mind. It's crazy how much I mind right now. Don't go into the cell assist. Oh, he was surprised too. Bro, I'm not going to front. I think I should be dead as well. Okay, and I'm definitely not playing any games. You can take the full final command now. Just caught this damage real quick. All right, 2-2. Only I used spark. You should have known he was messing with the 19th Cooler. Of course, you're not going to get Cooler out of here, bro. But you might get Vegeta. You might get Vegeta while you're here.  Okay, he faked me out with that. Let's go. Nice use of the assist there. Caught me trying to throw a little extra Keyblast. Three bars, can that kill? I don't think it's going to kill, but the hard knockdown is going to suck. Okay, block all that. Hell, I thought he was going to fake it. Okay, he didn't fake it. But can he beat the one-man army? Oh, no. Get that out of here, bro. Oh, that was well timed. But I was so happy with the timing that I forgot to keep playing. It was a good timed Super Dash though. Do I get full marks for that at least? Damn. I was just so happy that something I wanted to do worked. The blue team is very good looking. I will say. It kind of just meshes together. All right, we have stuff we can improve on, like not letting Genema die in five seconds. That is tricky. Okay. Okay, that was really tricky. I do like it though. Oh, he had something for that as well. All right, we down tech then. All right, he didn't have anything for that. Get the sliding. He likes to stay on the ground. So we're just gonna. He was ready. Okay. Okay, this guy's good. I mean, that was my first time doing that. I hadn't shown him. I was ready. I was here to stagger. I'm out, bro. See you. My vanishes are trash. My vanishes are actual trash. I'm getting stuffed. It's not even, it's not even funny. I really wanted to project out counter that. Did that really think I wanted 2S? I wanted that counter. Oh, no. We've made so many input errors. The pride trooper rank is here and he's here to stay. Oh, switch, switch. Got him. Got him. Got him. Guys, this is a rough game. We have made one too many mistakes. I mean, the block that is real rough, but you didn't see it coming twice. I'm still getting used to that. Everybody's getting used to Genemba though. That's the real mix. Nobody knows what Genemba's going to do. DP. That was the first time he's used the DP in a defensive manner. The tail got me with the raid. That was nice. Okay. I actually don't mind having only Super Saiyan Goku left for a level three spark. I don't mind it too much. Okay. I did not expect a tag. He has seven bars. I would not be surprised if he saw a golden freezer. Pested that. Am I dead? I'm dead. Not dead. Okay. I should have gone with a different route, but this is what we got now. Pad routes. Oh, and he hit the back dash heavy. I didn't think you would go for that. Ah, that one seemed a little obvious. Okay. Okay. We're 2-0 already. We'll take a little break just to explain what my thought process here is. Okay. Obviously defensive wise, I got to step it up. And that's pretty obvious. That was fun. No, I'm not leaving, dude. I'm not leaving. I'm just taking a little think break. Think break. Using that like that was risky. Trying to buy enough time for Janemba. Wrong button. The lights were fast enough. That is the only time you'll ever hear me say that to a Vigito. And it's only because I'm playing him. If I wasn't playing him right now, I would definitely not be saying that. I'd say he deserved it for mashing. He's got combos for that. He's got combos for that. And we were off to such a good start, but I misclicked and did the grab. Level three hard knock, didn't he? Yeah. I understand. It makes the most sense. There's no way that was a reaction. There's no way, because I didn't even know I was going to do that until I did. What side is he even on at this point? If anybody could have told me that I wasn't doing a level three there, I would have told you you were lying. Reads. Okay, let's go. I'm back. I'm back to my old confident self. I knew he doesn't like staggering, so I was going to stagger into a little counter. Okay, nice dive kick. Oh, level three. Just threw it on there just to get the hard knock down. I agree. I agree. But now I'm thinking, dude. I took my little think break. I'm thinking again. Let's go. If you ask me if I regretted using the... Oh, God. He kills. Okay. We played so terribly against Cooler, and that's coming from the 19th place. 19th best Cooler, not the brass. My Cooler is trash. Cooler literally has nothing to do with my BP record. This is my combo ability. He can't kill here.  I wonder if he's seen this mix. He's just DPs. If I would have switched, he wouldn't have gotten a DP. I don't know why I did that then. That was so not worth. Dude, no. I tried to kill Cooler way before it was even possible. I thought if I rushed the Super, it would do the damage. This is a lot of this. Speaking of damage, oh my goodness. Level one into level three, because that's what I would do yet. Because it resets neutral even if Cooler dies, and I'm not even too confident I'll be killing Cooler, especially with whatever mix it comes my way. All right, well, that was a rare case. Double mediums, just because I'm feeling good. Just because I'm feeling good. That was cheap. Drop it. Drop it. That was cheap. I'm going again. One more. Win or lose. Win or lose. One more. That was cheap.  I'll even go ahead and say little toe. I'll even go ahead and stretch that to little toe. I'm not sure if that was even big toe material. I'm too emmy. Okay, so this is your brain on rematch. Man, I really cannot block out here. My blocking is trash. Got the combo. Two bars will kill here. Rebars will decimate me. Off to a bad start. You know that the rematch curse is pretty strong. Yikes. Okay, I shouldn't start with something so risky against the guy I'm already struggling with. Let's go. That DP has been... No, the keyblast was too slow. That DP has been doing me in, though. Cross ups. Gohan, get off the table. This is serious. No. Gohan, why would you do? Oh, no, no, no. We've had some good stuff go for us, but it's just overall it didn't break our way there. Yikes, dude. We've dropped one too many things. This has been a great set, though. I love these sets. All right, just get out of there. That DP has been ruining me. No spark out there for me. I try to go for a jab instead. Pretty bad decision-making. I've made questionable choices before, but these have been real questionable ones. Hey, Gohan's looking at the screen. Oh, I forgot that was immune to beams. Delay it? I don't know if the delay did anything, but I'm proud I jumped first instead of super dashing. I forgot about the beam thing, and this is coming from the 19th best cooler in the world. Why am I throwing out beams? Wow, that was nice. The anti-air property stopped it from hitting my move, and I was not prepared. That was good. I got outplayed. Outplayed on that one as well. I don't know why I thought that was a drop. Damn. That was a good match, though. I like it. I like those kind of matches. Well, that's going to be it for me. I don't really know if there's any other themed teams for Jinnah, but I guess you can let me know down below. But yeah, I was really struggling to think of a themed team. What's our thing for that? I guess since I'm the 19th best cooler, I'll throw him a little cooler. Seriously, guys, thank you so much for watching this. Hopefully you've been enjoying the week of Jinnah so far. If you want to see one where Jinnah does a little more and gets some wins, I would recommend the other videos. But yeah, great sets regardless. These are the sets that are really going to test your Jinnah. Speaking of other videos, there should be some up above on your screen right now. If you like the video on the channel, make sure to leave it a like and subscribe. I have been Dr. Doya. I'm going to go ahead and get out of here, but I'll see you in the next video.


My name is Jeremy Dean. I'm the vice president of education at Hypothesis here to provide this sort of introductory webinar to our tool Hypothesis and this technology of social annotation. I'm going to walk you through a little bit of a background on annotation and social annotation and digital annotation. And then I'll be demonstrating the tool for you so you can see what it looks like in action. Again, the intention of this is really for beginners, for folks that are new to the tool and the technology. And we have a series of these. This is the first of four over the coming months. And our goal here is to inform you and inspire you. And should you be informed and inspired, please follow up and get in touch. We'd love to work all the schools I see represented in the chat. Our schools were not yet formally working with. And we'd love to connect and begin collaborating. With you and your colleagues and folks on your campus. All right, Hypothesis 101, social annotation for beginners. So this is a quote from the Chronicle of Higher Education that I've been starting off with since March. It's by Jennifer Howard, an article about eight years ago talking about this technology of social reading or collaborative annotation. And I brought it back into my presentations after leaving it out for many years as folks really often sort of already knew a little bit about the technology. I brought it back in in March after the pandemic began to try to reassure folks who were moving to remote teaching for the first time that while a lot of us probably got into education to go into a classroom and be face to face with students. And that certainly when I was a teacher was what kind of drove me with those physical class meetings, I think it is possible to recreate some of the intimacy, some of the energy of physical classrooms and physical conversations or classroom conversations online. And I think social reading or collaborative annotation is really one of the most powerful ways to do that. So take heart from Jennifer Howard. Online, a book could be an article, could be a poem, could be really any text, a chapter. Online, a book can be a gathering place, a shared space where readers record their reactions and conversations. A little bit about organization to begin with. I'm sure everybody here is using a lot of different technologies in this new regime of teaching and learning online. I think hypothesis is really a unique company and how we're structured. We build our technology according to open standards. All our code is open source. We got our start funded by philanthropic organizations. I think we're unique tech companies. I saw a headline this morning that some of the tech CEOs were headed to Washington to defend themselves against potential legislation trying to limit their power. Hypothesis is very aware of itself as a tech company and really has a social mission behind it. And I think that makes it unique. It really makes me proud to work for the organization. And here's a little glimpse into who we are. A good number of my colleagues are on the call here. Shout out to Franny and Hala, who helped organize the webinar. But I think I also saw Becky's here. And I believe my colleague Lori's here somewhere. So you've got a lot of folks from hypothesis on the webinar today. Feel free to shout out to Sonia. Feel free to ask questions in the chat or formally ask questions in the Q&A and we'll have some time for Q&A at the end. But here are the faces of the humans behind the technology that we're gonna be talking about. So I'm a former English professor by training. I got my PhD at UT Austin and taught rhetoric composition and English literature there for many years. Also taught high school English before that. And at some point in my teaching career, got in the habit of handing this poem out at the beginning of every term along with my syllabus. I believe that annotation had been crucial to my own success as a student and as a scholar and as a teacher. And I believe it was gonna be a key to success for my students in my courses. So I would try to emphasize it from the beginning and inspire them to write in the margins of their books. And I'd try to do that through this Billy Collins poem called Marginalia that's essentially an ode to annotation. We've all seized the white perimeter as our own and reached for a pen only to show we did not just lays in an armchair turning pages. We pressed a thought into the wayside planted an impression along the verge. I'm sure this is nothing new to you guys as teacher scholars wherever you're teaching that you've probably written inside of a book and maybe even encourage students to do so. It's an ancient education technology. The annotation helps readers better comprehend material, break apart difficult language, gloss, new concepts and new vocabulary, new illusions. And also helps readers begin to critically think about what they're reading and start to add their own voice to the conversation that is learning, that is knowledge production. So it's nothing new, but one of the issues that we are facing today as more and more content even before the pandemic as more and more content is delivered online is that just when we may need this critical literacy practice of annotation, we lose it when we start to read more online. And studies show that students are not as engaged when reading online. They don't comprehend as well when they read online. And so we need annotation more than ever when we read online and suddenly we don't have the ability to write with a highlighter or a pen or a pencil in the margins as we do with paper books. And so part of what hypothesis is doing is trying to sort of resurrect the margin to allow students and instructors to continue this critical literacy practice of annotation. But a lot of new affordances are added by annotation in the digital network spaces that we are teaching and learning in today. So this is the hypothesis vision for annotation that any website, article, ebook, document or piece of multimedia can have multiple layers of annotation. You can still have that traditional layer of private marginal notes, that bottom layer in the image on the screen here. You can also have a public layer. This public layer is actually disabled in our integrations within learning management systems which most educators are leveraging of the hypothesis app within the LMS. But one of the neat things about hypothesis is that folks are using hypothesis across the world, across the web, personally as part of communities and conversations and as part of formal professional practice in a variety of fields. So there is a public layer of annotation enabled by hypothesis that's out there. The Washington Post, for example, uses hypothesis to gloss primary source documents from the news. It's disabled this public layer in the LMS integration. So what we're really focused on in the education space are private reading and annotating groups that can be created with hypothesis and also can be created for you and your students but also created for you and your colleagues should you be reading something of relevance together about what you're teaching or in your field of specialization you might use hypothesis to have conversations across with colleagues at other institutions on top of documents that are important to your scholarship. I'm gonna share three top-level takeaways from students and instructors that I've gleaned over the years working with hypothesis with you guys today to try to sort of frame a little bit more of the pedagogical value of the tool for teaching and learning. The first is again, the sort of nothing new aspect of annotation that hypothesis makes reading active. This is what it is always done. I'm sure those of you guys that pay attention to education research that there's a lot of talk about active learning. We want our students to be active learners, not just passive recipients of information. We want them to be building knowledge and this is a way to do that within the context of the specific practice of reading to make that reading it's specifically active. I love one aspect of this screenshot that we're looking at here today because it reminds me of something that I've experienced teaching with hypothesis in the classroom, which is that one neat thing that can happen when you're annotating online is that you can use multimedia and other sort of digital elements that at least myself, I'm not much of an artist so I can't draw on the margins of my readings like medieval monks did. I really just have chicken scratch and arrows and nastrices and things like that. But online I can add images, I can add video, I can add hyperlinks to my annotation. And this is something that a lot of our instructors are leveraging, basically helping each student think that every annotation is like a little website that can be designed as such with text and images and video and links and really this multimedia rich essay on some specific select piece of text. And that can be a very serious use of multimedia or in this case, the leveraging of memes which never hurts to enliven how students are engaging with our courses and with the content in our courses. This aspect I think is particularly new that hypothesis makes reading visible. I would hand out that Billy Collins poem on day one and then 30 days later, 20 days later, I'd grade a paper, right? So I did not look at my students annotations and not check that they created annotations. I did not talk to them about best practices for annotation. I didn't talk them through how to maybe leverage those annotations for summative assignments like an essay. And the neat thing about social annotation, about digital annotation is that we can see those trails and pathways that students trod through the reading and move from the reading to some notes and then maybe to an essay. We can be present. That whole process is visible to us. The reading process, the annotating process and what becomes of those processes as they sort of move towards other creations by students like essays and other summative assignments. It's also true that hypothesis makes reading visible in the sense that we can know that our students have read. I'm sure that some of you at least have had the experience of staying up in front of a class to talk about a reading and wondering whether students had actually done it. Well, you can see that they've been there and at least engaged with some key pieces of the text through their annotations. And I think more importantly, you can see where were they confused? Where were they inspired and intervene as necessary to help students that are confused and to help along students that have a particular line of inquiry that you might be able to be a guide in. And then finally, hypothesis makes reading social. And this is absolutely the number one takeaway for students in surveys that we conduct with our students users. The number one thing they always say in those surveys is that they learn from their peers using hypothesis. That they saw students and were able to learn from each other that they collaborated in understanding passages. And so that social piece is very valuable to students. And I would say, statement of the obvious to some extent that in the past eight months since a lot of students are now learning remotely, that's become all the more important. That there's another space where they can connect in an authentic way with their classmates who they don't get to be in hallways with or in classrooms with for the time being in many of the contexts. Many of our teaching contexts. So the social aspect is critical. And this quote is wonderful from a student several years ago at Plymouth State. Hypothesis is my literary Facebook. When I'm reading, I sometimes wonder, does anyone actually understand this? Am I crazy? I certainly had that experience in grad school reading things like Derrida. With this tool, I know I'm not alone. That idea that you're no longer alone, that your instructor might be there and present to help with a difficult passage would also that your classmates are there to help each other and to work together to understand and to create knowledge. All right, I'm gonna take a practical turn here towards how hypothesis actually works. And I will be demoing hypothesis live here. Again, I just wanna remind folks, feel free to ask questions in the Q and A and also feel free to just chime in in the chat. And I don't see that anybody has yet, but we welcome questions if you wanna learn more about something I haven't gone into depth with. Please don't hesitate to pipe up. So when hypothesis is active on a text, you can select text to annotate, just highlight something and that's gonna be the anchor for an annotation and you'll be given the option to highlight or to annotate and I'll show you that in just a second. But you select text to annotate, you can reply to existing annotations. It's true that not all annotation activities need to be discursive, but certainly one of the powers of hypothesis is as a kind of discussion forum embedded in the course content itself, rather than as some separate tab in the learning management system. And the reply feature is critical, obviously, to engendering and furthering discussion. And it's important to point out and important to sometimes build into your assignments. And then finally, as I've already mentioned a few times, you can annotate together in private groups and multiple private groups. So you'd have a different private group for one course as opposed to another. And in some LMSs, we have the ability to create smaller groups for annotations and that's definitely a priority for us to bring to all LMSs. Hypothesis in your LMS. We work across a variety of LMSs depending on where your school is at. There's no account creation in the LMS usage and the instructor can essentially create readings for students from course readings that have the annotation ability of hypothesis on top of those readings. So we essentially configuring readings to be hypothesis enabled or annotation enabled within LMS. And then we also have grade book integration in the LMS and I'm gonna demonstrate that in just a second. I am gonna be demonstrating hypothesis in LMS Canvas. I know many of you may be using other LMSs. This is really just meant to be a general introduction. I hope if you remain super interested and excited, we can follow up after this and we can do a demo for you in your LMS or the specific context, possibly even for you and your colleagues. But I'm gonna show you what it looks like inside of Canvas. So we'll get out of my presentation and jump into a Canvas course. And there was a question around, does hypothesis work on mobile devices and phones and iPads? It works on mobile devices. I'll just speak from sort of personal experience and perhaps bias that the smaller the screen, the less ideal the visual is, right? Because you're talking about having a text. Sometimes it's a two page PDF plus an annotation pane. And so there's a real estate issue, right? On a tiny phone, you can't necessarily see the entirety of the text plus the annotation window. So you're kind of scrolling around. So I do think the larger the screen, the better the experience. And we are WCAG AA compliant, which isn't a question asked in the chat around accessibility. But let's go ahead and show you what it looks like here. This is Canvas for those that aren't familiar. Again, all the LMSs are very, very similar, right? There's a place to create an activity or a resource and a place to bring in a tool in that activity and resource or resource. And that's where hypothesis comes in. And the pathways are slightly different in the LMSs, but the concept is largely the same. So here I am in a course. These are modules. These are all readings for a course. So I'll click on one. And it's gonna open up the reading. Actually, it's first it's gonna, it's an assignment. So it's gonna open up a little assignment page here. And it's a poetry assignment. As I said, I'm an English professor. It's a poetry assignment which I've asked students to look for certain poetic elements as they're reading, to locate an example, create an annotation and discuss it, and then actually ask them to tag their annotations, which I'll show you in just a second. So let's go ahead and open the reading. And I'm logged in as an instructor. And so this is hypothesis. And let me know if you can see this clearly enough or if it's large enough. But I've got a poem here, a resource, a reading that I've grabbed from somewhere. And then this is hypothesis. This little drawer that can pop in and out. There's some existing annotations I can see in the hypothesis sidebar. Each of these highlights is connected to an annotation. This one happens to have a question by the professor with students responding. I can view them all at once and scroll through them in the sidebar here. You can see that there's a professor and two students annotating. And as I mentioned earlier, when I highlight text, I'm given the option to highlight, which is a default private act or annotate. And an annotation can either be only for me, like a private note, or it can be shared to the group. And in this case, the group is called poetry 101. And there's a lot of power in the annotation composition window here. There's obviously a place for me to write text. There's a place I can format that text, bold italics, I can make a pull quote. I can add a link to another resource. Maybe this passage in the poem reminds me of another poem we studied. And I want to literally connect to it through a hyperlink. I can insert a hyperlink, I can insert an image. I can also drop in a YouTube video. And then I can also use LaTeX, which is a way to write math equations. So I didn't necessarily see if anybody was from a mathematical discipline, but you can write math equations in this area as well. And I can add a tag. And another thing that we do as part of our pilot, in addition to, I mentioned, we can demo in your campus LMS. The other thing we do as part of our formal pilots is, as I mentioned, I'm a former educator myself. Everybody on the education team at Hypothesis has a background as an educator, has gotten up in front of a classroom and taught. So we all know a little bit about what it's like to do that. Some of us have more years of experience there than others, but we're here not just for the technical piece, but also for the pedagogical piece. We love talking about how this tool can be implemented to support learning goals, and we want to make ourselves available for those conversations as well. So one thing we do as part of our pilots is to really have those pedagogical conversations, have workshops where we work with instructors around how can you leverage this tool for your learning goals in your courses? And that's where we might get into more detail around. So what's the use of tags? Why would you want to use tags? What's a good assignment that would emphasize intertextuality in the use of hyperlinks? So we can get more into that in other types of demonstrations or workshops that we might do with your courses, but I'm gonna leave it at that for now. You can see that in this sort of demo assignment, I see some tags have been used. So let me show you what this looks like from the grading perspective, at least in Canvas. So again, this is the view that everybody would see, all the students and instructor would see the text plus the sidebar, but then there's another view that only an instructor has. In this case, it's through Canvas SpeedGrader. There's similar views in the other LMSs or another LTI-compliant LMSs. So I can click on SpeedGrader.  And this is my SpeedGrader view. So what's different here, I still see the text and I still see the annotation sidebar, but the annotation sidebar is scoped to a particular student's contributions. And so right now I'm just seeing those annotations by the student teacher's pet. And I can enter a grade, and in the case of Canvas, I'll also enter a comment. And I can go through my class, student by student. I can see class clown has not added any annotations. They get a special note. Test student has also not added any annotations. Let's just pretend that this isn't due yet and they're gonna do it soon. And then I get to another model student. So in the grading view, I'm scoping in on a particular student's contributions to the larger conversation. I find this to be incredibly powerful in terms of that idea of making reading visible. So I can see how model students is interacting with the text. See where they're at in terms of those interactions. Yes, assess them if I choose and give them a piece of private feedback about their practice here. And if I have very specific things that I want a student to do, reading practices I want them to perform or things I want them to be looking for and identifying within a text, then I can see that clearly here. I'm gonna text my wife to come and let this dog out. Sorry. So this is the grading view. And I'll just add one more piece because I did see it in the Q&A. And I'll actually, I'll just show you really quickly how you create these types of assignments. And this is gonna vary by LMS, but the concept is generally the same. I wanna create some kind of activity or resource or add a reading or something like that. In the case of Canvas, I'm going to add a module item. And I'm gonna choose type external tool. That's what hypothesis is. It's an external tool or an LTI tool. You won't see more than one hypothesis. And I'll click on hypothesis. And then this is a screen that you'll get to where you choose the reading that will be annotated. You have the option of using a URL. That's what I did with that Mary Oliver poem. I found it somewhere online. I just dropped in the address here. Or I can select a PDF from different types of cloud storage. So in Canvas, I can select it from my Canvas files for the course or from a PDF that's in a Google Drive. And I can actually upload a PDF to an associated Google Drive in that process right there. So that's the demonstration. I'm gonna just pause for a second and see what kinds of questions. But just to summarize, hypothesis works on top of web pages and PDFs that are pointed to from LMS. All right, lots of good questions are coming up here. So let's pause and chat about some of these. Joanne or Joan, sorry. Joan asks, does the LMS populate the groups? So right now in this course, I just have one group. It's a small poetry class. You saw there's like four students, right? So there's just one group for the course. It's the same group as the course itself in it. It populates for automatically in the LMS. So the first thing we do is we automatically create a group for the course. In Canvas, we have some additional granularity to be able to work with sections. And we're working on rolling out the ability to work with Canvas groups and with groups in other LMSs. So if you are creating smaller groups than your roster in the LMS, right now hypothesis doesn't listen to those smaller groups, but that's one of the major features that we're working on right now is how can I maybe have a 20-person course divided into five groups and each of those four groups of five would annotate this poem separately. But for now, all 20 students are on this text. All right, so many questions coming up. Let me try to keep up. A lot of the questions around how does this get set up with the various LMSs is a question to follow from here. For example, Moodle, we have Moodle resources on our website in the Knowledge Base that you can go and find about how to add it. Typically, you're gonna have to talk to your LMS admin. I'd encourage you to reach out to Education at Hypothesis and we can help you with that process. But maybe one of my colleagues can drop in a Knowledge Base link to the Moodle stuff for Gus. What is the receptivity of publishers to share PDFs of text we purchase and use? I have not had any conversations with Pearson lately about their feelings. The question is maybe more for your librarians around is it acceptable if the content is not openly licensed to download a PDF from a library resource and then post it in Canvas? To me, it seems pretty fair use, but I'm not a fair use lawyer and I've found quite a range of folks, a range of opinions at universities and colleges across the country in terms of what's allowed. So certainly some schools believe that it's still within fair use or even within the licensing agreements to download a piece of content from a library resource to which a school subscribes and host it in the LMS that they own or that they have licensed as well. So many good questions. We might have to follow up later and Fanny might be able to help me surface some of these but I've got to- There are a couple of questions there. If you want me to just take over and ask I've captured a couple of them. Great. Okay, so Lisa Sharfstein and I hope I'm pronouncing everyone's name correctly. Apologies if not. She wants to know, can you talk about PDF use versus links? Don't know if you covered that at all yet? Yeah, so you saw I think the option here. This was a PDF. This was an assignment created from a URL, right? From a link to this poem somewhere online. And then I could finish the process of where I don't remember where I was but I could finish the process of say going in here and authorizing a Google account and grabbing a PDF and just showing you what that looks like. Right now I'm authorizing my Google account off screen. It's going to come back and show me my files in this Google account but I can also just upload right here and grab something that I know is on my desktop. Hopefully it's not too much embarrassing showing up here. I don't know what this is but here's a PDF that was in a Google drive. Actually this was on my desktop and I've just brought it into my Google drive and I should give it a sensible name and I'll add the item. Now I'm going to open up. It's going to show me this PDF with hypothesis next to it. So that's what I'm adding a PDF looks like. Right now you can see that the sidebar is covering up the reading. So I'll just point out really quickly a best practice in all LMSs. If I go back to my table of contents I can edit this and there's something I'm going to do that's going to make it better to view especially from a real estate perspective. I'm going to ask it to load in a new window and now when I open it up there's another step but I'm going to get more real estate from the screen because I've gotten rid of the Canvas apparatus by loading in a new window. Maybe getting a little on the weeds there but that answers I hope the question from Lisa around links and PDFs. And then we've got a question from Tyler Cron. Pia Tech, Pia Tech. And he asked if hypothesis collects information and if so what information? So one of my colleagues might be able to drop in our LTI parameters and API parameters for Canvas. We are as I mentioned at the front I think a very ethically oriented tech company. We want to collect as little information as possible but some information is needed, right? It's not going to be helpful to you as an instructor if every student is just named anonymous. So we need to grab first name and last name to create a human readable name. So you know if Lisa has a comment or if Frannie has a comment that it's attached to a person that you know and you recognize and somebody in your class and that Frannie knows that Lisa's the one that's responding to her. So we grab first name, last name. We need to know what their role in the course is. Again, it's very limited and documented. Becky, my colleague has shared the LTI parameters that show you the specific pieces of student information that we need. We don't even grab the email address. So we try to be very lightweight in that regard. Just grabbing what we need to make the tool work. There are a couple more questions from Timberley Barber-Marini asked, is there an integration to have one drive as an option? We're working on expanding the cloud storage, cloud storage options, but right now there's not a direct one drive integration. I think it may be possible to create a link in one drive for a PDF, but then you could enter into a hypothesis using the link pathway. But right now there's not a specific integration with one drive. Noted though, as a feature request. Yeah, that's a great question. And then Leslie Harris wants to know what the cost model is. If you could talk about that a little bit. Sure, well, let me come back to that when I go into our pilot program. How about that? I did see a few questions around peer review and the uploading of student papers. So Whitney and Angie are asking about this. So I want to enable this use case. I love this use case. I taught composition for many years. Peer review is a huge part of it. There's no reason obviously hypothesis can't be used. I could upload as I showed you an upload process, a student paper as a PDF and have another student annotated. The rub is that students cannot activate hypothesis. So the teacher is always the one invoking a hypothesis activity within the LMS. So you can't say upload your articles, your readings to hypothesis, right? You'd have to get students to send you the readings and then create those activities within the LMS. So it would be burdensome for a larger group, but it is possible. One thing I've seen people do is just create a giant PDF of all student papers and upload that as a hypothesis assignment to kind of make it at least a one time prospect. We get used in this way all the time and I think it's a very powerful use case. It's just not fully optimized. As you can see, there's just a little bit of work that the teacher would need to do to make it happen. Okay, then another question from Lisa Sharfstein. She says that, are your annotations show on the side? In her LMS, they're actually covering the text and she wants to know how she could change that. So I'm assuming Lisa that you have hypothesis installed at your school's LMS and so you're describing something that you're seeing in your installation. As I showed earlier in every LMS, I think I believe in every LMS we have, there's a way to say don't open this assignment sort of inside the frame of the LMS, right? Open it as a new tab. So it's just the hypothesis reading in the hypothesis sidebar, thus giving more real estate to all the good stuff that you want students focused on. Right now you can see, you know, there's stuff at the top in Canvas, stuff on the side and I can get rid of that if I tell it to open in a new window in Canvas in this case and you can see that all the Canvas apparatus is gone, it's not taking up real estate and thus causing the sidebar to cover the text. You can manually adjust the sidebar, Lisa. I don't know if you've figured that out. It is kind of a secret feature. You can see here that I'm adjusting the size of the sidebar. So there are some ways to manually do that as well. And this is from Kathy Jockman. She wants to know what the receptivity of publishers is to sharing PDFs of their texts that they purchase and use, that a school purchase. I think I addressed that one. It's a copyright question in terms of the licensing, the licensing agreement the library has and I found a range of answers. I'd ask your local librarian more than your publisher around whether they think it is within fair use to essentially re-host a PDF that you get from JSTOR, for example, inside of Canvas. Again, from my perspective, you have access to that content and you're hosting it in a place that is within your jurisdiction, Canvas. But I know that some schools librarians would answer that differently and say that it has to be at the source. We are working to partner with the folks like Epsco and ProQuest and JSTOR and Aries and other ERES platforms to provide a more direct pathway to that content rather than the download and upload. But for now, that's the workflow. Okay, and then I don't think you answered this yet. Leslie Harris wants to know, is it possible to annotate a short video in hypothesis or are you limited to PDF files? PDF and text files, essentially now. PDFs and HTML webpages for now, Leslie. It is our aspiration and hypothesis to be the all-purpose annotation tool for lots of different media. But right now it is focused on, we are focused on text and boy, is there a lot to do in just figuring out how to best deliver text annotation to folks for teaching and learning. There's so many different awesome things that we could do. But it is in the long-term roadmap to annotate video and there actually is. I don't have a link to it right now, but we did do some recent neat hack around, not a hack. We developed a kind of prototype for annotating YouTube transcripts that line up with a YouTube video. I can't remember where that, it's certainly in our blog somewhere. I can drop in a link to that. I think I can grab that pretty quick, but yeah, that's a pretty neat workaround for that. Cool, let me go in. I want to get to the question about pricing and everything like that. There's a question in the chat about signing up for a demo. I think the catch-all answer to all questions is that if you want to know more, email education at hypothesis and somebody will get back to you about signing up for a demo in your LMS, talking about how we can get a pilot started on your campus, talking about why it's not working in Moodle the way you wanted to or whatever it might be if you already have it set up. But let me go ahead and talk about our pilot program real quick. So the way to start for a school is really to start by piloting. We have over 150 pilots this fall and we're signing up pilots for the spring. The pilot cost is 2K, but if you're worried about the price or the budget for that, especially mid-year, get in touch with us. Let's have a conversation. If you're excited, we're excited and we want to make it work. But this is a list of our current piloting schools and we're bringing in pilots for spring 21. As I said, it's a cost of 2K for unlimited usage and for full technical support and pedagogical support and a number of other goodies. So let me outline what the pilot program has. Again, it's unlimited usage. So you can turn it on the LMS and anybody can use it that is interested. That group of users at your school would have access to our knowledge base as well as the priority within our support queue and escalation of any issues that you're experiencing to top priority in our dedicated LMS engineers. That much is obvious, right? Obviously we provide tech support. I think again, one thing I'm really proud about with the pilot program and with our education program more generally is just that we really want to be there for pedagogical support as well. So we've developed some pedagogical materials. Our community of teacher scholars have added to this archive or resource guide of pedagogical materials. We have a dedicated success team and every school that's in the pilot program we will have a dedicated success manager that would provide a customized webinar for the campus or for departments and also be available for one-to-one instructional design consultations. The bottom line is we really want to be there just as much pedagogically as we are technically to be collaborators and how to best leverage social orientation for the goals that you have in your course and that your institution has for its students. More broadly. And then finally, we're very interested in building community around annotation. And so we have a number of ways that we try to bring together students, teachers, scholars to talk about best practices, annotation, interesting use cases, challenges in implementing this technology. When things are face-to-face we have regular conferences and events at campuses and things like that. One thing that we've been doing really great and thanks to Franny and Hala and Nate for the liquid margins program that we have a sort of bi-weekly show where we come together and talk about all things, annotation, that's a pretty exciting thing to look at for inspiration around this practice. So we've had a show on math. We've had a show on college success. We've had a show on preparing faculty to use the tool. And so look for the schedule of upcoming episodes and some exciting stuff coming up. What is the next one? Franny, do you know off the top of your head? Yeah, the next one is actually coming up on November 6th. It's gonna be at 11 a.m. on Pacific Time and it's gonna be featuring this great scholar, Mahabali from American University in Cairo. And they're gonna be talking, she and a couple of other guests are gonna be talking about making class courses more hospitable for every kind of student. And so yeah, I think it's gonna be a really great show. So registered, there's a liquid margins page on our site. I'll drop in a link to that in the chat. Great. And one other thing I wanted to highlight was a research project, really a research position that we've created. We have our first scholar in residence, my longtime collaborator, Rainie Colliers, our first scholar in residence. And he is producing a white paper and assisting groups that are doing research on social annotation really across the globe. One project that we're working on that I'm particularly excited about as a former composition teacher is helping some folks at Indiana University evaluate the use of hypothesis and social annotation across the entire freshman composition program, semester by semester and year by year. So very exciting research I expect to come out of that. And if you're a researcher and interested in looking more closely at what's going on in your class or leading something at your institution to review the use of annotation, please be in touch about that. And I think that is the conclusion of my prepared remarks. As I said earlier, if you wanna take a step forward or have a question or wanna have a conversation, education and hypothesis is the best way to reach out. If you are interested in bringing a pilot to your organization, I think one of the best calls to action here is that if you are interested and excited, you think your colleagues would be interested in excited, we should explore together the possibility of a pilot at your institution in the spring. And getting in touch with education and hypothesis would be the first step in doing that. And we can talk about how to maybe do a demo for your colleagues and maybe bring the proposal to a center for teaching and learning or an LMS administrator and get the conversation going about a spring pilot at your school. I'm gonna open it up for questions now. I see lots of appreciation and I appreciate that, Joan and Mark, thanks Jonathan. Any questions that anybody wants to raise in our final minutes here? Oh, I did see one question that I didn't address above that I want to address. Who was it? Susan says we don't have hypothesis in our LMS yet. Let's talk about the yet part there, Susan. But what is the best way for students to access hypothesis via the web or with the bookmarklet? So it is possible to use hypothesis as we call it in the wild outside of the LMS. And you can go to hypothesis and get started on our website and learn more about our browser extension, and other ways to activate hypothesis outside the LMS, which may be a process, so that I'd love to start with some of you guys, but it may be a process. And you can learn about how to go that route. I will just say that it is more intense. There's a lot of signing up that needs to happen by students that have to individually sign up for accounts and they would have to, possibly add a browser extension to be able to activate hypothesis on text. There's more of an onboarding burden when you use hypothesis in the wild, but it is possible to use it in the wild and not in the LMS. Angela asks, is there an option to view as a student so I can give them instructions? My students sign up and say they've used it, but I'm not seeing their annotations because they didn't post them to our class. I don't know how to tell them to do that. I would get in touch with support at hypothesis about that, Angela. They may have accidentally posted in public, so you could look at the public layer of a document. They may have possibly posted only me, a private annotation that's not viewable, visible to others. So a couple of different things may be going on there, but there's, yeah, so I would, you want them to post to a private group. So if you're working outside the LMS, you'd create a private group and invite students to join it and then they would be asked to post to that group rather than to public or rather than to only me. Any other questions? So there was one question about annotating in groups. We do have a blog post on that, which I dropped into the chat, but if you want to talk a little bit about that. Sure, as I was just saying, when you're outside the LMS, you can manually create a group and invite people to join it. And that's how you'd annotate in a group. And you can create multiple groups outside the LMS, any number of groups and have different communities reading together, different subsets of a course roster, for example, reading together. Inside the LMS, the group creation is automated by the LMS. So we create a group for the course roster and then in some LMSs, you can create a smaller group for a smaller reading section. Steve is asking about international copyright. I don't know anything about, I mean, international copyright of the technology or the readings. I mean, one thing that I should mention about hypothesis is that we're not storing the copyrighted content. In some cases, we're asking you to store it somewhere else, like Canvas or your LMS or Google or some other cloud storage, but we are not storing it ourselves. So we do not host content and we do not violate copyright in that sense. So it's really a question for your local copyright experts about, is it okay for me to move this PDF here? And if it is, then I think it's closer. I don't think we have a school in Japan yet, Steve, so let's make that happen. I'd love to have a school in Japan piloting hypothesis. Karachi, Pakistan we have and I think some Australian and New Zealand schools, certainly in Europe, but if you're in some other international place, love to bring some international diversity to our pilot cohort. Thank you everybody for joining today. As I said, I think the best way for next steps is to get in touch with education at hypothesis and I just spelled education wrong, so do the next one of that, that's better. And yeah, please be in touch. We are, as I said, signing up schools for pilots. If you're inspired, if you're excited, please get in touch. We'll help you figure out if there's others at your institution that are interested and bring that group together and try to advocate for a pilot from your Center for Teaching and Learning, or we can also just try to get it into your LMS in a sandbox for you to test it out, but in any case, reach out to us. Folks are standing by to take your call. Just kidding, we don't have phones, but I do get in touch. Thanks everybody.


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Ukraine's Su-24 fighter jets are nightmare for Putin's troops.  That's according to the Swiss news outlet Blik. Russia has a new target. Putin's military leadership is increasingly targeting bases with Ukrainian Sukhoi Su-24 jets. The story reads, The reason is that in the past few weeks, Ukraine has been able to repeatedly hit targets in all areas occupied by Russia. This was mainly done with the Western-made Storm Shadow scalp cruise missiles. Whether it's accommodation for the Russian generals in Burdiansk, arms factories in Luhansk or bridges leading to the Crimean Peninsula, nobody is safe anymore, the article said. However, the key to the immense destruction that the Ukrainians have been able to inflict on key Russian logistics hubs and supply routes is not the high-tech missiles themselves, but rather the converted Sukhoi Su-24 machines. Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin has now recognized the fighter jets as a possible weak point for the Ukrainians. For weeks, Russian troops have been attacking air force bases in Western Ukraine, where they suspect the Su-24 fighters are based. In particular, the air base in Staro-Kostiantinov is repeatedly attacked. The article reads, Italian military expert Thomas C. Thina described Russian tactics as not very successful. Russia fires 90% of its cruise missiles and ballistic missiles at the base that hosts those planes. And yet, Russia fails again and again, he wrote on Twitter. The recent attacks on bridges in Chonha and Hennichesk show that Storm Shadow and scalp missiles can hit critical Russian occupation targets in eastern and southern Ukraine day and night. According to the German news outlet Build, the fact that the Ukrainian air force moves the Sukhoi jets to a different air force base every 24 hours also causes problems for the Russians. All Soviet-era air bases have been reactivated and secret new airstrips are used on highways. Several Patriot and Iris T anti-aircraft systems were deployed to protect the valuable fighter jets and bases, the article said.


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