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A colleague recently asked me how I created animated pictures as she wanted to create her own as fun way of relaying instructions to students via her Moodle page. If your interested in creating your own gif but don’t know where to start this link takes you to a tutorial for Photoshop users whilst this link will take you to a tutorial for the free photo editing software GIMP.

Animated gifs can be used for a wide variety of educational purposes including to create an animated background for collections on the social bookmarking software XtLearn, to post questions to students, to create short revision videos and to help students learn new a new language by acting as a flash card.

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I used Photoshop to create the picture which is an animated gif so here’s a short tutorial on how I did it. As I know quite a lot of people don’t have access to Photoshop software if you skip to the end of this post there are links to a few free