Pedagogy

John Beecher and the McComb “Criminal Syndicalism” Case

This project (originally created by Bethany Radcliff and Kylie Warkentin in 2021; updated and revised by Kylie Warkentin in 2025) serves as an educational example of working with and annotating sensitive audio using the “‘Criminal Syndicalism’ Case, McComb, Mississippi (Side 1)” recording from the John Beecher Sound Recordings Collection at the University of Texas’s Harry Ransom Center. In this […]

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Literary Sound Studies Anthology: English 483, University of Alberta

“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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Annotating “The Last Archive”

Originally authored by Ali Gunnells and edited by Sam Turner, this project is the culmination of an independent study conducted under the supervision of Dr. Tanya Clement during the summer of 2022. The project explores how archival rhetorics are employed in contemporary podcasting through an analysis of Jill Lepore’s podcast The Last Archive. In the

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Annotating Adler: Identity and Embodiment in the Stella Adler Collection

This project by Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth contextualizes recently digitized video from the Stella Adler and Harold Clurman Collection at the Harry Ransom Center. The eleven digitized videos, provided to the public by The Ransom Center, show Adler teaching at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting between 1969 and 1980 as well as being interviewed by Bob

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RHE 306 Anthology

This is an anthology of AVAnnotate projects developed for RHE 306: Rhetoric and Writing. For this project, students were asked to think about how arguments about gentrification function differently in digital spaces—through sound, image, and voice. Using AVAnnotate, they produced original audio or video compositions paired with annotations and a transcript that examine the rhetorical

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