The Fresh Annotator is a creative engagement application designed to help students forge a personal connection with hip-hop educational content through play. Multimedia lyrics include keywords that students can annotate with drawings, audio, text, or video, and jam along with their contributions. Teachers and students can use it online without an account, and sessions are saved as unique URLs.
This tool was developed for Fresh Ed, an arts-integrated program enhancing teaching and learning through culturally responsive pedagogy and student songwriting. It supports vocabulary exploration and deepens content understanding.
Launch the Annotator!See FreshEd in action at SXSW Edu panel: Can Hip Hop Save Us? Youth and School Culture
Panelists include Audra The Rapper, Brian Mooney, James Miles, and John Robinson.