"It's pronounced Jif® ." The tweet linked to, what else, a multi-colored GIF flashing the same phrase.

"Graphics Interchange Format. Graphics. Not Jraphics. #GIF #hardg," wrote Web designer Dan Cederholm.

Steve Wilhite created the Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF, while working for Compuserve in 1987. On Tuesday, he received a Webby Award for it and delivered his five-word acceptance speech (that's all the Webbys allow) by flashing a GIF on the big screens at the Cipriani Wall Street in New York.

Those short, animated loops that have captivated the Web for decades? They're pronounced like a brand of peanut butter.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use GIMP’s layers in a different manner. Unlike it’s default composite function, using GIMP as an animation package requires you to think of every layer as of an animation frame. We’ll discuss the two different frame disposal methods later on. For now let us think about every layer as of a separate frame.

Now it's time for the fun stuff. Photoshop is an extremely powerful tool for editing images, and you can do just about everything to the individual frames of the animation that you can do with regular images. We won't be covering that, but if you're going to this much trouble, it's worth it to explore. However, to make a simple animated GIF:

It’s about taking the elegance of a still photo and telling a deeper story. It’s about freezing time.

We were working on a fashion shoot for a magazine and the word Cinemagraph just came up, and it just worked. It seemed to capture the romance and dramatic element and resonated with everyone in an emotional way.

a new photographic medium

It could be considered a really crude Cinemagraph, but there is a picture of New York City street that I call “Living City.” I shot it with my iPhone out of a high rise. I saw cars going by and I froze different areas and allowed animation in others with the idea that the city is always living. The ability to capture that with both a moving and still image led to what was ahead.

Hashtags are not only a means to having discussions but also a useful teaching tool that people organize around to distribute popular education.

Making knowledge public through social media is a means through which we can find ways to empower our communities through an informed awareness.

#NotYourAsianSidekick because I’d rather base build with fellow Asian Americans than rely on allies, who have a history of being absent,”

But in conversations about #NotYourAsianSidekick, two seemingly conflicting facts stand out. The first is that a global movement around Asian-American feminism has been ignited. The second is that this movement is more than several decades old. Asian-American feminists have been battling these issues for generations, activist scholar Mari Matsuda tweeted yesterday: “We theorized #NotYourAsianSidekick ideas since the 70’s but kids gotta learn it from a damn hashtag. Still no Asian Am Studies at most U’s.” Matsuda, who like Yuri Kochiyama and Grace Lee Boggs, has a strong history of activism — actual picketing and taking to the streets — and her point was a good one. One of the reasons we are marginalized is because battles hard-fought by activists like Matsuda are undernourished.

One of the things I like most about thinking of an enslaved black stormtrooper army alongside the Turner/Denmark Vesey-like rebellion leader Finn is that this encompasses Afrofuturism’s ability simultaneously to imagine the black past, present and future alongside one another.

So take heart. If you don’t like the impact that our grading system has on you and your students, you don’t have to tolerate it anymore.

In the end, I’m happy to trade a slightly higher grade distribution for more work from students.