We have three ways of collaboration that will require us to do work outside and inside of class.
- Co-Leading Discussion
- Discussion Posts
- Social Annotation
Co-Leading Discussions
Please add your name to the day you would like to co-lead a discussion of the reading. Remember you need to formulate THREE discussion questions and prepare with your partner to engage the class for 30 minutes.
Discussion Posts
Please follow the link to our course group to answer discussion questions and to respond to your peers. You should plan to respond to at least one of your peers before class time. Posts are due Monday or Wednesday by 11:59pm. Responses to peers are due Tuesday or Thursday by 12:09 pm.
ENGL 162W Fall 24 Course Group
Social Annotation
Collaborative reading has a very positive impact on social and intellectual skills, particularly those of critical and analytical thinking. Annotation is a tool for collaborative reading that allows readers to engage with the texts and with their peers’ reactions to the texts at the same time. (Clarifiction: You will need to respond to a peer’s annotation as well. 9/23/24)
Here are some questions and issues you might be interested in discussing while you read and annotate:
- Is this text useful to help us develop our ideas around our course theme?
- In relation to other readings, is it repetitive or does it complement other texts we have read?
- Does the reading contribute to new or different understanding of our theme? What are those ideas? How does the author present those ideas?
- Is the writing clear or convoluted?
- Is the argumentation convincing?
- What ideas are provocative? Which ideas don’t make sense?
- “I don’t understand! Help!”
- How does the text connect to political, social, historical, and artistic phenomena?
- What do you want your peers to discuss with you or to respond to?
Getting Started with Hypothes.is
Join and setup Hypothes.is
- Go to the Hypothes.is site, and sign up for a username. For homogeneity (to help me when looking for specific comments), use your FIRST INITIAL and LAST NAME. For example: talsahlani.
- Once you have a username, sign in to your Hypothes.is account.
- Click the following link to join our course group: ENGL162W
- Group annotations are private. We will be the only ones seeing them.
To annotate using Hypothes.is follow the steps below.
- Sign In: First, make sure you are signed into Hypothes.is and logged into our group (ENGL162W). To log in our group:
- The title at the top of the annotation sidebar tells you what area or group you are annotating within. If you are not in any group, it will say “Public.” To get into our group click on “Public” and select our group (“ENGL162W”) from the list. If our group name does not appear, you have not been added. You will need to click this link to get added to our group. Then you should see our group in the drop-down menu of the annotation sidebar.
- Annotate: Visit our course “Schedule” to find the test to annotate. Click one of the text. You will be taken to a new page with the article and the annotation sidebar. Look at the sidebar title to confirm that you are in our group area. Use your cursor to highlight a piece of text you would like to annotate. Click “Annotate” from the pop-up that appears over the highlighted text. Write your annotation in the sidebar and post it to our group area.
Here is a very helpful video recorded by Laurie Hurson:
