Where I’d Like to Go – An Icebreaker With Google Drawings

The concept is to have trainees essentially put themselves anywhere in the world through the usage of Google Drawings. To do this students first require to find an image of themselves and remove 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 an image of themselves then students open Google Drawings where they place a photo of location that they wish to visit or revisit. Lastly, they then place their profile image over the background image in Google Drawings. Those actions might sound complicated, however theyre not. In this brief video I show the whole process..

As the new academic year starts lots of you may discover yourself searching for some new ideas to get and break the ice to know your new students while they likewise get to understand each other. Something that Ive always asked my students is “where worldwide would you go if you could go anywhere today?” Recently, Ive begun believing about turning that concern into the timely for an activity in which students discover 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 also shown in the video above, you can utilize Google Classroom to disperse a template for the task.

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