We are learning to create a Google Slide Animation As A Way To Share Our Learning

Animation enables us to tell stories, communicate emotions and ideas, in a creative and engaging way. 

Using Google Slides we can create simple animations. 

It’s like an old fashioned flip book.

HOW DID WE DO IT?

1. Set up your background
2. Create your characters 

You could use

• PNG images (images without a background)
• Use a photo and remove the background with remove.bg
• Make your own using shapes and group them together

3. Duplicate your slide – click on the slide on the menu on the left and press CTRL + D

4. Move your characters a little bit – use your arrow keys on your keyboard

5. Repeat steps 3 and 4

The best animations have a story – with a start, a middle and an end.

How do you think Ms Wall could improve her animation?

We have been learning about how to use Google Earth.

We created a project about famous Taranaki landmarks of significance.

To create our project we opened Google Earth, clicked ‘New Project’ and searched up the landmarks we wanted to include.

It was quite fun! Have you ever had a play with Google Earth?

We are learning how to use Google tools to create a Graduate Profile Site.

We have created a Google site which shows an e-Portfolio of identity information (who we are, who and where we come from, the things that we do) as well as goals (what we want) and reflections and evidence of ourselves as a learner.

Our site had to include:

1. A home page  (with some information about us – e.g. pepeha, interests, unique experiences, strengths, weaknesses, likes and dislikes, our mission statement)
2.   At least two goals 
3.   At least one piece of evidence for each of the criteria

When it came to writing our blog post, our Digital Learning Object (DLO) was a choice between

• adding screenshots of our pages and a description of each element:

This is a screenshot showing…

OR

• creating a screencastify explaining the different elements of our site:

We then wrote a few sentences about how we found creating our site using the below sentence starters:

Explain your learning – try using growth mindset questions as sentence starters

1. What you did
2. What went well/didn’t go well
3. What you enjoyed/didn’t enjoy and why
4. What you would like readers to comment on (you could do this by asking a question of them)

 

We are learning to create a positive digital footprint.