Talltweets Convert Slides to GIF

I have been using Macromedia Firework to create GIF. Just learned that you can do that using https://talltweets.com/ to convert Google Slides into animated GIF!

Click on the following link for the interactive slide
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vT7HwBndGTt174FgVYhGyPXJJJL-aynOBnAdASuzmuAdp_tZZz4yYeIFxkX3bLJdlCc-gyIrROyqulU/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=60000&slide=id.g6c59ada23f_0_0

created my GIF for my Google classroom and is so easy. Just create the Google slides and then @ talltweets.com choose the google slides and it will convert it to a slides as shown below.

Go to talltweets.com and click on select presentation to browse for your Google slides.

Then just specify the width, e.g. 800 for the header in Google classroom. Then click on create GIF and you download it by clicking save.

Create a custom banner GIF

Watch the video below showing how you can use Google Slides to create a GIF.

Use Giphy Chrome extension to add animated GIF and stickers to slides.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/giphy-for-chrome/jlleokkdhkflpmghiioglgmnminbekdi?hl=en

New Features on SLS

So grateful for the new features on SLS released in Dec 2019.  https://mo.learning.moe.edu.sg/UserGuide/Vle/index.html (SLS login needed to access the user guide) 

I have highlighted three features which I really love.
Now you can add teachers as students. Great for PLC as well as collaboration with other teachers. You can also try out the lesson as a student by changing your role in the profile.

You can also attempt lessons as student.

You can also make announcements on SLS.

My favourite feature - Drag and drop question!

1. Upload a background image. The image must not exceed recommended dimensions of 640(W) x 960(H). You can use paint to size the image - please see below. Or you can do so by using Powerpoint - resize the slide to custom size and save the slide in image file (jpeg).
   
   
   
2. Add Drag and Drop options in the form of images or textboxes.
   • These options can be resized to fit the blanks in the background image.
   • Drag the options to their correct positions on the background image.

 Students will answer a drag-and-drop question by dragging the moveable images or textboxes into the areas marked out as options. This is what the student will see:

Tried out 2 for Geography. One in which the students have to identify the location of the correct country and then drag and drop it to the image of Africa. The second one is to identify the tectonic features and landforms on a given diagram.  It is easier to upload labels created on Paint as the options for the drag and drop to the image. As for the background image if the size is too big you can resize it e.g. to 80% of the original and then upload.  

Adding Quizzes to your lesson

Since Dec 19, only lessons can be shared. You should be able to insert a quiz into a lesson and share the lesson. The gif below shows how to insert a quiz that was created previously.

Thanks to Send Kwang for sharing in SLS

Whitelisted websites for embedding into SLS (only via login to SLS)

https://docs.learning.moe.edu.sg/sls-user-guide/vle/teacher/UsefulResources/Whitelist.html