Restored tool / Fresh Ed

Fresh Annotator

Listen. Draw. Make connections.

Annotate words and musical moments with text and drawings. Share one drawing across repeated keywords, or customize an individual occurrence.

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Recovered drawings, examples and availability

The restored preview supports text, drawings and a local webcam reflection. Recording uploads remain unavailable; the original description below records the earlier project.

Fresh Annotator with recovered default drawings
Recovered historical drawings in the restored interface.

Project context

Original project description

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.

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Videos

Project video

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See FreshEd in action at SXSW Edu panel: Can Hip Hop Save Us? Youth and School Culture

Project video

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Panelists include Audra The Rapper, Brian Mooney, James Miles, and John Robinson.