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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When I saw this tweet by Amanda Sandavol, I immediately liked, bookmarked, and retweeted because I knew it would come in handy.
Lucky for me and my 8th grade US History teachers, it came in handy sooner rather than later. Ms. Martin was looking to create a GooseChase scavenger hunt that would review Industrialization, Westward Expansion, and Reform. Within the review was one question categorizing important people to the reform movements in which they were involved. That question birthed this version of Amanda's original Drag and Drop Matching template.
Within the GooseChase, this is one mission where students will sort the people into the appropriate reform movement and take a screenshot for their evidence. Want to try it out?
Amanda's Drag & Drop Template Amanda's Tutorial: Creating Manipulatives in Google Slides Reform Drag & Drop GooseChase Game + Teacher Directions Y'all...this is seriously only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the templates & knowledge that Amanda Sandoval shares. If you're not following her on Twitter, get to clicking. You are sure to find amazing resources in her feed. 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.
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