The idea is to have students virtually position themselves anywhere in the world through the use of Google Drawings. To do this trainees first need to discover a photo of themselves and remove the background from it. Photoscissors makes it easy and quick to eliminate the background then download a new background-free image. Once they have an image of themselves then students open Google Drawings where they insert an image of place that they want to go to or review. Lastly, they then insert their profile picture over the background image in Google Drawings. Those steps might sound complex, but theyre not. In this short video I reveal the entire process..

As I point out in the video above, you can modify 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 disperse a template for the assignment.

As the new school year begins numerous you might discover yourself looking for some originalities to get and break the ice to know your new students while they also get to understand each other. Something that Ive always asked my trainees is “where worldwide would you go if you could go anywhere today?” Just recently, Ive started considering turning that question into the timely for an activity in which trainees discover a bit about
Google Drawings..