Abstract
This paper focuses on rewatching sequences in classroom work with digital oral history, i.e., participants conducting a second watching of a video clip that they have already seen. I provide a detailed examination of how the participants initiate rewatching using speech and embodied conduct.
They treat the video clip as a structured object containing an already familiar succession of utterances by the narrator. The rewatching sequences are closed when the participants have identified a particular utterance within the video that they can treat as a solution to a previously encountered ambiguity.
To do this, they search for the relevant utterances by manipulating the time marker on the screen and stabilize them by pausing the clip. The participants thus exhibit a local temporary competence in rewatching and manipulating video clips as topics and resources in classroom tasks.