As the brand-new academic year begins many you may find yourself trying to find some originalities to start the ball rolling and get to understand your brand-new trainees while they likewise 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 considering turning that question into the timely for an activity in which students learn a bit about
Google Drawings..

As I point out 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 disperse a template for the assignment.

The idea is to have trainees essentially put themselves anywhere in the world through making use of Google Drawings. To do this trainees first require to find a photo of themselves and get rid of the background from it. Photoscissors makes it quick and easy to get rid of the background then download a brand-new background-free image. Once they have an image of themselves then trainees open Google Drawings where they insert a photo of location that they want to revisit or check out. Lastly, they then place their profile image over the background image in Google Drawings. Those steps may sound complicated, however theyre not. In this brief video I reveal the whole process..