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

As the new school year begins numerous you might find yourself looking for some originalities to start the ball rolling and get to understand your new trainees while they also get to understand each other. One thing that Ive always asked my students is “where on the planet would you go if you could go anywhere today?” Just recently, Ive begun thinking about turning that concern into the timely for an activity in which trainees discover a bit about
Google Drawings..

As I mention in the video above, you can customize this activity to be finished with Google Slides or Google Jamboard. And, as is also shown in the video above, you can utilize Google Classroom to disperse a template for the project.

The idea is to have trainees essentially place themselves throughout the world through the use of Google Drawings. To do this students first need to find a picture of themselves and remove the background from it. Photoscissors makes it easy and quick to remove the background then download a brand-new background-free image. Once they have an image of themselves then students open Google Drawings where they insert a photo of location that they want to review or check out. They then place their profile picture over the background image in Google Drawings. Those actions may sound complicated, however theyre not. In this brief video I show the entire procedure..

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