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Monday, September 19, 2011

How to Create Animated GIF in Photoshop

Tutorial: How to Create Animated GIF in Photoshop
& Posting the GIF to Tumblr blog
By: Susan Lei

The tutorial is completed! All the information in how to create the animated GIF is on the website. This tutorial is based on using Photoshop in creating an animation and animating graphics. The tutorial only contains screencaps of the program and other window screens. 

Features on the tutorial:
  • Demo buttons available to view the animated GIF on a small window popup
  • Quick links for number of steps on the side column on every individual documentation page (fixed position)
  • A scroll-to-top link to go back to the top of the page (not interactive)
  • A scroll-down link to the number of parts of the steps (not interactive)
  • All sections are numbered in parts and steps in headers
  • All parts are in bullet points
  • Important text are highlighted in red color and bolded

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Rubric & Learning Plan

Week 8:
Rubric: 
Lesson Plan for today's testing: [Step 1: How to download and convert the video file]

Scores: 1 - poor; 5 - excellent

Content (Amount of information, clarity of the content)
3 out of 5 - Lack of information and too short. Some information are missing. Content clarity is just right. Need to explain more such as how to copy & paste and where to type link.

Multimedia (Relevant images)
5 out of 5 - Good and relevant images of screencaps for the content discussed. The images are even marked with red borders to highlight important parts.

Mechanic (Errors, spelling)
5 out of 5 - No errors whatsoever. All links work.

Interactivity/Engagement (hands-on)
5 out of 5 - Based on a hands-on activity on working by themselves and looking at the tutorial at the same time.