Animated Gif

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International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards

  • 1. Empowered Learner -- Students leverage technology to an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goal, informed by the learning sciences.
  • 1a. Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.
  • 1b. Students understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose and use/troubleshoot current technologies.
  • 1c. Student are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies.
  • 2. Digital Citizen -- Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that safe, legal and ethical.
  • 2a. Students engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices.
  • 2b. Students demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of copyright and sharing intellectual property.
  • 3. Knowledge Constructor -- Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.
  • Students plan and employ effective research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits.
  • 4. Innovative Designer -- Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.
  • 4a. Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving problems.
  • 4b. Students select and use digital tools to plan and manage a design process that considers design constraints and calculated risks.
  • 4c. Students develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process.
  • 5. Creative Communicator -- Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.
  • 5a. Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.
  • 5b. Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.
    • *All standards listed above are from the SRR Industrial Technology Standards document based on the ISTE standards.
    GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format and was developed as a way of compressing images back in 1987, 4 years before the internet. JPG (Joint Photographic Expert Group) format became the standard image compression format after a licensing rights fiasco over gif. Gif, however, hung on because of its animation ability.

    GIF's are like the electronic form of stickers. They show up all over and add a sense of fun and whimsy to anything they are attached to.

    Students are introduced to the concept of animation through a couple short videos. Next, animated gif's are discussed through a few examples. The best GIF's are ones that are repeatable, meaning that the first and last frame are nearly the same.

    Students follow along with the teacher to make their first animated gif on their computers together.

    Students are to use Illustrator or Photoshop to make an animated GIF of their own. The GIF must have two parts that move separately and be no larger than 6X6 inches.

    Click here for step by step instructions to use photographs in your GIF animations..

    Click here for a video tutorial using Photoshop to make a ball GIF..

    Click here for video tutorial that reveals your love.

    Click here for video instructions for an animated GIF using Illustrator and Photoshop.

    Evaluation:
    2 points -- Repeatable/cyclical
    3 points -- Smooth motion (not just stuff appearing and disappearing)
    3 points -- Quality of hand-made graphics or Photoshop work
    2 points -- Followed Directions. Turned in as a .gif file titled with your name.

    10 points total