Disciplinary Learning Outcomes

This page offers instructors interested in using AVAnnotate a series of content questions, method questions, and student learning outcomes. These questions and outcome are then integrated into the annotations across four interviews.

Humanities

Content Questions

How do the close-up shots used for the interviews influence the tone and meaning of the show?

What cultural and political ideas emerge across the episodes that are representative of the late-1950s?

Method Questions

How can close reading strategies be used to analyze sound and video?

How can rhetorical or literary analysis be used to look at voice, silence, and tone, and how can this be integrated into the annotations/transcript?

Student Outcomes

Evaluate how historical narratives are communicated through performance

Interpret how language and meaning signal the investments of a cultural moment

Adapt textual methods to sonic and visual media

Social Sciences

Content Questions

What does the list of interviewees and the content of their interviews suggest about the role, politics, and influence of public figures in the late-1950s?

Where do societal ideologies emerge across four interviews and what does this communicate about the purpose of the series?

Method Questions

How can qualitative coding be used to categorize the tone, language, and style of interviews?

Using discourse analysis, what ideas and interviewer-interviewee dynamics are repeated across the series?

Student Outcomes

Application of qualitative research methods to audio and video material

Analysis of how meaning circulates across different sociopolitical setting, including interviews

Media/Communications/Radio, Television, Film

Content Questions

Based on both the content and style of three interviews, what do the conventions of this series reveal about how journalism reflects societal investments?

How can annotating camera shots and audio quality be used to develop new ways to think about the use of narrative in interviews?

Method Questions

How can analysis of media technologies alone be used to better understand the relationship between the interviewee, audience, and the archive?

How can annotating according to media and content be used to aid qualitative analysis of secondary material?

Student Outcomes

Demonstrate how critical analysis of media impacts the style and content of journalism

Reflection on how cultural narratives are communicated in archival settings

Collaboration between content, media, and form, alongside analysis of secondary material

Education and Pedagogy

Content Questions

How is knowledge modeled and valued in different parts of interviews, and different interviewees, versus others?

How does the form of the interview ask students to consider the role of public knowledge-making and education?

Method Questions

What critical analysis strategies become available to students in audiovisual media?

How can educators promote students' shift from passive to active listening through collaborative annotation?

Student Outcomes

Develop critical listening skills in interpersonal and mediated settings

Practice interdisciplinary methods for engaging in public-facing digital humanities work