The idea is to have trainees essentially place themselves throughout the world through making use of Google Drawings. To do this trainees first need to discover a photo of themselves and get rid of the background from it. Photoscissors makes it easy and fast to get rid of the background then download a new background-free image. Once they have a photo of themselves then students open Google Drawings where they place an image of place that they desire to visit or revisit. Finally, they then insert their profile photo over the background image in Google Drawings. Those steps might sound complex, but theyre not. In this short video I reveal the whole process..

As the new academic year starts numerous you might find yourself looking for some originalities to get and break the ice to understand your new students while they likewise get to understand each other. One thing that Ive constantly asked my students is “where on the planet would you go if you could go anywhere today?” Recently, Ive started considering turning that concern into the prompt for an activity in which students find out a bit about
Google Drawings..

As I discuss in the video above, you can modify this activity to be completed with Google Slides or Google Jamboard. And, as is likewise demonstrated in the video above, you can utilize Google Classroom to distribute a template for the task.