As the brand-new academic year begins many you might discover yourself trying to find some new ideas to break the ice and get to understand your new students while they also get to understand each other. Something that Ive constantly asked my students is “where on the planet would you go if you could go anywhere today?” Just recently, Ive begun thinking of turning that question into the prompt for an activity in which students discover a bit about
Google Drawings..

As I mention in the video above, you can modify 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 distribute a design template for the task.

The concept is to have students virtually place themselves anywhere in the world through the use of Google Drawings. To do this students first need to find a photo of themselves and eliminate the background from it. Once they have an image of themselves then students open Google Drawings where they place an image of place that they want to go to or revisit.