As I discuss in the video above, you can customize this activity to be completed with Google Slides or Google Jamboard. And, as is also demonstrated in the video above, you can use Google Classroom to distribute a template for the project.

As the new academic year starts numerous you might find yourself searching for some originalities to get and break the ice to know your new students while they also learn more about each other. One thing that Ive always asked my trainees is “where worldwide would you go if you could go anywhere today?” Just recently, Ive started thinking of turning that concern into the prompt for an activity in which trainees learn a bit about
Google Drawings..

The idea is to have trainees practically position themselves throughout the world through the use of Google Drawings. To do this students first require to find an image of themselves and remove the background from it. Photoscissors makes it simple and fast to eliminate the background then download a new background-free image. Once they have a photo of themselves then students open Google Drawings where they place a photo of place that they wish to visit or review. Lastly, they then place their profile image over the background image in Google Drawings. Those steps may sound complex, however theyre not. In this short video I show the whole process..