CASE STUDY: Perusall (LCA Worked Example)

Annotating in Perusall

We will read texts on a social platform that enables us to share our questions and thoughts with each other. Your goal is to write thoughtful comments and questions. You should also strive to make connections with other readings, video lectures, other courses, or your professional experience. Don't know how to get started?  Here are a few suggestions:

• Pose questions or seek clarification about the key ideas.
• Challenge the claims, evidence, assumptions or perspective
• Question the method, process or conclusions
• Identify any gaps or possible future areas of study
• Provide a link to related materials that you feel others would find relevant (e.g., videos, articles, websites, reports, interactive maps, etc.)
• Discuss implications of the findings and/or potential impacts to the economy, technology, environmental policy, governmental regulation, etc.
• Respond constructively to an annotation posted by another reader.

Scoring Annotations

• Evaluating Annotations in Perusall Download Evaluating Annotations in Perusall
  • This document provides an example of how annotations are assessed in Perusall.
  • There is no need for you to submit anything on Canvas. Simply do the annotations with Perusall. I will manually enter your social annotation grade into the Canvas Gradebook.

Preparing for the Live Session Discussion

Remember, teams will summarize the annotations and engage in discussion during the next Live Session. During the Live Session you'll summarize the annotations, provide a few additional insights or questions and offer final thoughts. 

Throughout the week, you will be monitoring your classmates annotations, looking for interesting points, common themes or other points worthy of further discussion. Come to the Live Session prepared to engage in discussion. Your group should aim to address most of the following points:

1. Summarize the themes of the discussion from the annotated article. 
2. Ask any follow up questions or points of clarification.
3. Connect the reading to the course content, current event, industry practice or your LCA project.
4. Raise any issues you thought were particularly noteworthy, insightful or controversial.
5. Provide concluding remarks or final thoughts

Your group may be asked to share a few highlights of your discussion with the larger class.