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.

    Students are introduced to animated gif's through a few examples. The best gif's are ones that are repeatable, meaning that the first and last frame are nearly the same.

    A sense of motion can be achieved by attaching the camera to a tripod to keep it stationary, taking a picture of some object, then moving that object slightly and taking another picture. Repeating this process will result in a series of photos that, when viewed in quick succession give the impression of motion or animation.

    Students are to take a series of pictures or create a series of images in photoshop and cycle them on the Timeline to make an animation.

    Click here for step by step instructions.

    Evaluation:
    2 point -- Smooth motion (not just stuff appearing and disappearing, steady camera)
    2 points -- Repeatable/cyclical
    3 points -- Quality of original photos
    3 points -- Creative Use of Photoshop

    10 points total




    Examples of how Kulzer uses animated gifs