Jazz Up Your Slides with GIFit!

 

Animated GIFs are all the rage these days. They allow you to express yourself in a creative, fun manner. They can also be useful for jazzing up the slides you use when teaching both synchronously and asynchronously. There tons of great GIF websites out there in addition to filtering your Google Image search for animated GIFs. Sometimes those sites or your Google search doesn't quite have the GIF you want. Sometimes you are thinking of a gesture, motion or scene you saw in a YouTube video that would make a great GIF, but you can't seem to find it anywhere.

Learn to use GIFit! to pull selected motions, gestures or scenes from YouTube and transform them into an animated GIF that can be used to jazz up slides, lessons and presentations. Below is a series of screenshots to help you get started.

Step 1: Go to the Chrome Web Store, search for GIFit! and Add to Chrome.

Step 2: Once the installation process is complete, go to YouTube and select a video. You'll see a GIFit! button appear in the bottom right of the video (all videos now). Click it.

Step 3: While watching the video, determine the "time period" in the video you want to convert to an animated GIF. Enter the Start and End time then click the red GIFit! button.

Step 4: It will take a few seconds depending on the length of the animation and download onto your computer.

Below is the GIF I created in the screenshots. This is great GIF for showing emotion, agreement and many other concepts. 

Once downloaded onto your computer, the possibilities are endless. Insert the GIF into lessons, slides, presentations, Google Classroom banners. etc. What GIFs will you create and for what purpose?

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