AustLit
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Below is how a short text annotation exercise appears on screen. The yellow highlighted text is attached to the annotation. The green highlights in the text below indicates additional annotations.
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Annotations are readily visible across the body of the text.
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Text annotation requires students to look closely at the work itself, rather than deal than obliquely or indirectly with their readings.
Examples of how Cirrus text annotation has been used:
Preparatory reading exercises: to prepare students before tutorials by setting sections of creative work for annotation.
Critical analysis: to determine students' facility with critical material by setting sections of critical work for analysis.
Peer feedback exercises: to encourage students' to politely and critically critique each others' work.
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Image annotations facilitate cross-references and analysis, including the addition of other images for comparison.
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Image annotation requires the student to deal directly with the artwork, artefact, advertising copy, or any visual object and to critique it as a physical object.
Examples of how Cirrus image annotation has been used:
Introducing visual components of text: to introduce the non-textual elements of forms such as drama into analysis.
Analysing illustrated texts: to enable analysis of the full range of a work such as a magazine article or a blog post, including illustrations.
Analysing artefacts: setting assessment items that include a close reading of physical artefacts from other civilisations.
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Individual annotations are viewed by clicking on one of the icons.
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Video annotation allows students to think deeply about the text and its contexts.
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Examples of how Cirrus video annotation has been used:
Film analysis: allowing students to closely and directly critique film techniques and visual storytelling devices.
Drama analysis: allowing students to consider theatre texts beyond the words on the page in set readings.
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Annotations are visible when one of the icons is selected.
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Audio annotation allows students to critique an oral work (storytelling, music, interviews) directly and concisely.
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