GIF IT UP 2015 challenge winners announced
The GIF IT UP 2015 challenge winners have been announced.
Check out the New Zealand student award winners and the open category winners.
The Challenge was coordinated by DigitalNZ and the Digital Public Library of America, while Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand sponsored ten student prizes. The student category was judged by illustrator and comic artist Toby Morris.
The GIFs were created from copyright-free archival videos, images, and other material.
More about ‘GIF’s
GIF is the acronym for Graphics Interchange Format. A GIF is a form of computer image that moves as an animation, because it consists of frames, like a movie with no sound.
The material for the GIFs had to be copyright-free and open for reuse. For example:
in the public domain
have a ‘no known copyright’ licence
or have a Creative Commons licence which allows for reuse.
The organisers put together this handy list of reusable collections from across the world.
Another quick tip: On www.digitalnz.org you can click the ‘Open Filters’ button, then use the ‘Modify’ button, and your search will only return items that are open for reuse.
GIF-making is a fun way to teach important digital literacies, such as:
search skills
copyright and reuse
how to attribute and cite source material
animation and digital photo-editing
Did you know you can make a GIF using free in-browser software? If you are a beginner in the world of GIFs, DigitalNZ have developed a series of step-by-step tutorials to coach from a beginner animated GIF, to a more advanced level. Check them out here:
The New Zealand school student prizes were judged by GIF and comic artist Toby Morris.
Explore our Primary Source galleries to find curriculum themed images with related teacher material.