Whether you're Team GIF or JIF, you have to admit that animated GIFs are fun! In her blog post, Using GIFs for Learning, Meredith Akers introduced me the the #GIFvocab hashtag how students can make their own animated GIFs for communicating understanding of vocabulary. She also provides an excellent template that can be used in any content area.
As a former math teacher, "Me by the Numbers" was a regular introduction activity at the beginning of the year. We started with students taking a quiz about me that involved only number answers like my street number, shoe size, and number of cavities. After sharing the answers, students would introduce themselves using numbers that were relevant to them. This year, Ms. Cain & Ms. Trinh's 7th grade math students are creating GIFs to introduce themselves using numbers and showing their knowledge of the real number system.
Students used a provided Google Slides template and the site andtheniwaslike.co to create their projects. Since this project, I've started using the site to create my own GIFs and add a little fun to my emails, tweets, and presentations.
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Matt Miller of Ditch that Textbook recently shared a post titled Google Slides Icon boards for low-prep, visual thinking. This post was so timely as Ms. Sears and I had just talked about students building the layout of a Spanish Mission, but not wanting the time to be mostly spent on students creating the elements of the layout. Using the gray space outside of the Google Slide canvas, Ms. Sears placed all of the elements of the Spanish mission that students would need. All students made a copy of the Google Slide presentation and listened to her reading of a story with descriptors of the Spanish mission. As they listened, they positioned the elements to appropriate locations. It was really neat to see how there were so many variations, but all correct renderings. Using the space outside of the Google Slides canvas has is a goldmine of potential.
The original idea was #TechMexTuesday, but our schedule limited us to a Monday, during our teaming periods...hence #TechMex Teaming. Who doesn't love chips & salsa with their technology training? ! We worked through a short presentation explain the what, why, and how of #EduSnaps and then teachers got to work creating #EduSnaps using content from their own curriculums. This ended up being a 2 for 1 for teachers since I presented using PearDeck. I can't wait to see #EduSnaps and PearDeck in action in their classrooms!
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