Friday 8 April 2016

USEFUL TECHNOLOGIES gifs and vines

Instead of relying on screenshots, you can use gifs or vines of short sequences (max. 6 seconds) from your OR existing copyrighted (fair usage) texts; an especially useful tool for a standard blog post (and social media/website).
Vine has been forced to close - a useful example of the churn and uncertainty in the web 2.0/new media field
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A gif is a short animation built from still images, a vine is a short video clip, and both can be coded to play on loops - you WILL have encountered these on Facebook and the likes!

There are lots of sites for creating both, and lots of guides for doing so:
Ol' Bill likes gifs!
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Create a gif and look for the usual embed code!

It's not complicated!
VINES ARE GREAT ADDITIONS TO WEBSITES/SOCIAL MEDIA TOO

Again, you get embed codes and social media share options

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