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  • Exemplar Text Annotation

  • 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.

  • Annotations are readily visible across the body of the text.

  • 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.

  • Exemplar Image Annotation

    Below is a sample image annotation. In this instance, students have been asked to annotate a neo-Assyrian statue.

  • Image annotations facilitate cross-references and analysis, including the addition of other images for comparison.

  • 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.

  • Exemplar Video Annotation

    Below is a sample video annotation. The video is on its opening screen (and not playing), and the annotations are visible as icons in the box below, attached to the relevant date stamps.

  • Individual annotations are viewed by clicking on one of the icons.

  • Video annotation allows students to think deeply about the text and its contexts.


  • 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.

  • Exemplar Audio Annotation

    As with video annotation, the audio track appears on screen, and the annotations are visible as icons in the box below, attached to the relevant date stamps.

  • Annotations are visible when one of the icons is selected.

  • Audio annotation allows students to critique an oral work (storytelling, music, interviews) directly and concisely.

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