Welcome to the JO GIF Gallery where we will be showing the best GIFs produced by JO students each year.

By R.L. (Built in Photoshop)
I LOVE GIF”S! and, I ain’t afraid to say it.
Fun, irreverent, playful, cute, emotional, and just plain weird… there is so much learning for students to sink the developing, digital, aesthetic, teeth into. This year I have set up this blog to showcase the wonderful work of my students. Media Arts here at John Oliver Secondary School covers Sound, Digital Image making, Animation, and Video, over three different levels- from beginner to advanced. I use GIF assignments as a way to let students take a step back from their main projects and play. While the sophistication of the programs might change from level to level the GIF’s themselves remains fun and fresh. Keep up the great work JO!
Please see the sidebar for links to students’ work. Enjoy!
But what is a GIF you ask?
The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; /ɡɪf/ GHIF or /dʒɪf/ JIF ) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on 15 June 1987. (Wikipedia.org)
Is a GIF a video or an image?

By I.P. (Built in Photoshop, based on a Picasso painting)

This is the FIRST GIF EVER! (Image source Wikapidia)