Social annotation is a powerful means of engaging students in collaborative reading activities online. In the School of Humanities and Heritage at Lincoln we have made extensive use of a platform called Talis Elevate, though there are many other tools out there.
Talis Elevate is a tool that enables students to annotate resources (documents, images, audio and videos, etc.), both individually and collaboratively. These annotations can be shared or kept as private notes. They have proven a powerful driver of student engagement and learning, as is made clear in the resources below.
The work that we did with Talis Elevate fed directly into the Active Online Reading project, about which you can find out more here.
Materials on the use of Talis Elevate in History & Heritage at the University of Lincoln and beyond:
- Robert Portass (2023), “Doing History”: Dr Robert Portass on using Talis Elevate (Talis Community Content site) (case study).
- Jamie Wood (2021), Engaging Students in Active Reading Online: Lessons from History and Heritage at Lincoln, Digital Transformation in History Teaching (Talis webinar) (slides and presentation)
- Kate Cooper (2021), What Do We Mean When We Say “Close Reading”? Collaborative reading as a way of enhancing source analysis skills, Digital Transformation in History Teaching (Talis webinar) (slides and presentation)
- Jon Chandler (2021), From New User to End User: Talis Elevate at UCL in 2020-21, Digital Transformation in History Teaching (Talis webinar) (slides and presentation)
- Jamie Wood (2020), Talis Elevate (promoting collaborative online reading), Middle Ages for Educators, Princeton University
- Jamie Wood (2020), Making Digital History, Webinar Digital Humanities: New Approaches to Research and Teaching of the Medieval Mediterranean (5th to 15th centuries) (video, with presentation slides here)
- Jamie Wood (2020), Talis Elevate, University of Lincoln Academy of Learning and Teaching, Teaching Innovation Blog
- Leah Warriner-Wood (2020), Talis Elevate: Three Approaches, Good practice Sharing Workshop, School of History and Heritage, University of Lincoln (video; with presentation slides here)
- Hope Williard (2020), Using Talis Elevate in Seminars: Ideas of Synchronous and Asynchronous Use, Good practice Sharing Workshop, School of History and Heritage, University of Lincoln (video; with presentation slides here)
- Natalie Naik (2020), Onboarding Talis Elevate in 24 hours at the University of Lincoln (blog post with Matt East and Jamie Wood)
- Jamie Wood and Matt East (2020), Onboarding a team in 24 hours. Prioritising active reading in emergency teaching, Managing Change – Challenging Existing Practice, Organised jointly by ALT East England & East Midlands Learning Technology (EMLT) group (presentation slides)
- Natalie Naik (2020), Talis Elevate from a librarian’s perspective (blog post with Hope Williard)
- Jamie Wood and Matt East (2019), ‘Supporting active and collaborative learning in History at the University of Lincoln through Talis Elevate‘, ALT Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh (presentation slides)
- Natalie Naik (2019), Passing 1000 Talis Elevate comments! We speak to Dr Jamie Wood about his high level of engagement from students (blog post with Jamie Wood)
- Jamie Wood (2019), Promoting active reading using Talis Elevate, Digied19 | Education in a Digital Age, University of Lincoln (presentation slides)
- Jamie Wood (2019), Supporting active and collaborative learning in History at the University of Lincoln through Talis Elevate, Talis Insight Europe, The REP, Birmingham (presentation slides) (video here)
- Talis, (2019), Dr Jamie Wood (video)
- Matt East (2018), Why the University of Lincoln adopted Talis Elevate (blog with Jasper Shotts)
Videos
Leah Warriner-Wood- University of Lincoln- 2020 – Talis Education (2020)
Hope Williard- 2020 – Talis Education
Dr Jamie Wood, University of Lincoln – Talis Education (2019)