Description
Verb
Annotate
Place in the Hybrid Sequence
- ✔️Prepare for Class
- In-Class
- After Class
Template
- Students add a set number of annotations to a shared document. Students could respond to the following prompts provided by the instructor:
- What parts were most interesting to you?
- What did you have a question about or not understand?
- What surprised you?
- What part connected with something you learned previously?
- Students review the annotations and list any trends.
- Students respond to their peers' annotations.
Faculty can use the annotation tool Perusall, which is integrated into Canvas; a shared PDF; a Word Document; or even a shared physical document.
Example
From a course on wrongful convictions called "Actual Innocence" by Dr. Terry Maroney, Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University.
- Students review a text that documented a false confession in a social annotation tool, such as Perusall.
- Students compare that text to a video recording of the alleged confession itself.
- Students highlight different section of text and contrast that text to the video recording.
- Students tag their comments with a defined set of keywords, using the hashtag feature.
- Students review their comments during a live session.
References
Cohn, J. (2021). Skim, dive, surface: Teaching digital reading (First edition.). West Virginia University Press.
Teaching with Perusall and Social Annotation – Highlights from a Conversation. (n.d.). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved November 1, 2023, from https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/2020/09/teaching-with-perusall-and-social-annotation-highlights-from-a-conversation/