As the new school year begins lots of you might find yourself trying to find some brand-new ideas to start the ball rolling and get to know your new students while they likewise are familiar with each other. One thing that Ive constantly asked my trainees is “where in the world would you go if you could go anywhere today?” Recently, Ive begun believing about 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 customize this activity to be finished with Google Slides or Google Jamboard. And, as is likewise shown in the video above, you can utilize Google Classroom to disperse a design template for the assignment.

The concept is to have trainees virtually place themselves anywhere in the world through using Google Drawings. To do this students initially require to find an image of themselves and remove the background from it. Photoscissors makes it easy and fast to eliminate the background then download a brand-new background-free image. Once they have an image of themselves then students open Google Drawings where they place a photo of location that they desire to revisit or go to. Finally, they then insert their profile image over the background image in Google Drawings. Those actions might sound complex, however theyre not. In this brief video I reveal the entire process..