This is a collection of AVAnnotate projects created by students in RHE 309J: Rhetoric of AI in spring 2026. The course explores the literacies required for critical engagement with generative artificial intelligence across contexts relevant to writing. In this assignment module, the term “synthetic” refers to audio, video, text, or imagery that has been produced […]
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This project by Darinelle Merced-Calderon examines how communities in Vieques and St. Croix express solidarity and resistance through music, protest, and performance, tracing the intertwined legacies of colonialism and cultural connection across U.S. territories.
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This project by Eduardo Gorobets brings digital humanities into language classrooms by creating interactive Spanish and Portuguese lessons that connect linguistic learning with Indigenous histories and cultures across Latin America. Check out his Canvas modules here.
This project by Kara Culp explores the experiences of Latino immigrants and Mexican Americans in Texas public schools after the 1960s, examining how federal, state, and local education policies shaped bilingual education and the experiences of Spanish-speaking students through annotated oral histories and archival materials.
This AVAnnotate project serves as an interactive finding aid for the GBH Archives Special Collection promotional reel, offering viewers a deeper dive into the featured content. By providing detailed annotations for each clip, the project contextualizes the footage and directs users to the full-length programs available in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. Designed to
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This AVAnnotate project explores the final annual Sound Institute of the SpokenWeb SSHRC Partnership, Re-Sounding Poetries: Collections, Classrooms, Communities, at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, in Kelowna, in May 2025. Over four days, poets, professors, archivists, artists, librarians, and researchers participated in a “summer camp” of immersive literary-audio activities. During the SpokenWeb Collections Showcase—where each
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This AVAnnotate project, created by Trent Wintermeier, presents several annotated interviews of famous figures, such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Salvador Dalí, from the Mike Wallace interview, held in the Harry Ransom Center collections. The project is designed as a teaching and learning tool to show how instructors can incorporate archival audiovisual material into coursework.
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The “Enough Said Reading Series” is an AVAnnotate project by SpokenWeb that provides a digital edition of Montreal spoken-word events from 1994–1996. It features individual event pages (with performer line-ups and open-mic details), compilation reels, and an oral-history interview, along with commentary from recent community “watch parties.” What’s especially interesting is the 2025 watch-party model:
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“Literary Sound Studies: English 483 Class Anthology” is a student-created AVAnnotate project in collaboration with Sam Turner that compiles course projects into a public anthology. It focuses on how literature is performed and heard, using time-coded annotations to analyze voice, rhythm, silence, and audience in recordings of poems and performances. The variety is striking: students
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The project was created by Jack Riordan and focuses on the work of Lester Hamlet, the distinguished and influential Cuban filmmaker. Offering bilingual content (English and Spanish), the project explores Hamlet’s poetry, archival materials, and cultural contexts. It presents a richly annotated digital edition of Hamlet’s poems alongside historical documents and interactive commentary, allowing readers
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