Teaching Resources

Teachers across educational contexts use AVAnnotate to more thoroughly engage class content, promote active learning, and support course learning objectives about multimodal composition and analysis. The following resources offer in-roads for educators across the humanities to implement AVAnnotate, as well as pedagogical materials that can be adapted to fit the learning objectives of varied classroom settings.

• Teaching with AVAnnotate - Case Studies This document includes detailed information about how teachers and students used AVAnnotate in different classroom contexts during the Spring 2025 semester. The case study write-ups include the following resources…
  • Course descriptions
  • Course learning objectives
  • Assignment descriptions and deadlines
  • Semester calendars (weekly/daily agendas; module and unit breakdown)
  • Lesson plans
  • In-person classroom materials
  • Annotation peer review guidelines
  • Sample student projects
• SpokenWeb Pedagogy Collection – AVAnnotate This lesson plan is designed to be used in a first-year writing classroom that engages multimodal texts and literacies. This lesson plan will 1) teach students how to critically analyze and engage audiovisual texts, and 2) offer students a structure for multimodal composing methods via the AVAnnotate software. AVA-HRC Intro This resource describes using AV resources at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in AVAnnotate projects.