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| | · GIF Creation Supporting Learning· GIFs (Graphics Interchange Format) are small files (compared to videos) allowing images or frames to be combined to create basic animations. Students love creating GIFs, making them an engaging activity to synthesise a concept or demonstrate understanding. Here are some curriculum aligned examples, an English creative writing workflow and a few tutorials for creating a GIF with Keynote. | | | |
| | GIFs across the curriculumGIFs are similar to stop motion animations, making them perfect for demonstrating steps in a process or unpacking a concept. | | | |
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| | | | Some curriculum aligned ideas include: - 🌏HASS: Timelines, mapping a journey or key features of a country, water cycle, animated travel brochure, natural/constructed features
- 🧮Mathematics: Steps of an equation, characteristics of numbers and shapes, translations, comparison of data (through graphs changing)
- 📝English: Story retell, narrative structure, character development, persuasive devices in advertising, imagery in writing (example below)
- 🎨The Arts: Animated surrealist artworks, Media Arts presentations, animated summary response to artwork/media/drama performance
- 🏃♀️PE: Correct sporting technique, online safety, healthy habits
- 🧑🏽🔬Science: Life cycles, steps of a method, states of matter, types of forces, electric circuits, animal adaptations, rock cycle
- ⚙️Technologies: Steps in coding, data transmission, prototype iteration
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| | | Using a GIF as a provocation for writing or to bring language to life can deepen learning for our students as they think critically about language features and then creatively represent both literal and implied meaning. Here is a Keynote to scaffold a workflow related to imagery in writing. | | | |
| | Discover a quick and easy way to use a ‘Burst’ of photos to create a GIF in Keynote by following this tutorial.
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| | Another fantastic resource with step by step instructions can be found in the Apple Learning Center within the Everyone Can Create: Project section. This project will help you learn how to Animate with Stop Motion to tell compelling stories, make complex concepts easier to understand and bring ideas to life.
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| | Tech Tip: Use Shortcuts To Create a GIF
Shortcuts enable a quick way to get things done with your apps with just a tap or by asking Siri. The app lets you combine multiple steps across multiple apps to create powerful task automations. The 'Make GIF’ Shortcut converts Live Photo or a Video into an animated GIF with one simple tap. The ‘Convert Photos to GIF’ shortcut enables you to select multiple photos from your camera roll and turn them into a GIF. Super quick and easy! There’s even a Shortcut to help you figure out how to pronounce GIF 😆. Until next week, From the TLC Team 🌻 
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| | Tech Learning Collective is a team of passionate Apple Professional Learning Specialists and educators from Queensland who offer professional learning, insights, resources, and valuable tips for transforming learning with technology. Get in contact to discuss how we can support your school community.
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