Where I’d Like to Go – An Icebreaker With Google Drawings

As I point out in the video above, you can customize this activity to be completed with Google Slides or Google Jamboard. And, as is also shown in the video above, you can use Google Classroom to disperse a design template for the assignment.

As the brand-new academic year begins numerous you may find yourself searching for some originalities to start a conversation and get to know your new students while they also are familiar with each other. Something that Ive constantly asked my students is “where in the world would you go if you could go anywhere today?” Just recently, Ive begun believing about turning that question into the prompt for an activity in which students discover a bit about
Google Drawings..

The idea is to have students virtually place themselves throughout the world through using Google Drawings. To do this trainees first need to find an image of themselves and get rid of the background from it. Photoscissors makes it quick and simple to get rid of the background then download a brand-new background-free image. Once they have a photo of themselves then students open Google Drawings where they place a picture of location that they wish to review or check out. Lastly, they then place their profile image over the background image in Google Drawings. Those actions may sound complex, however theyre not. In this brief video I show the entire process..

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