As the new academic year begins numerous you may discover yourself looking for some brand-new concepts to break the ice and get to understand your new trainees while they also learn more about each other. Something that Ive always asked my trainees is “where in the world would you go if you could go anywhere today?” Just recently, Ive started considering turning that concern into the timely for an activity in which students find out a bit about
Google Drawings..

As I point out in the video above, you can modify 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 distribute a design template for the project.

The concept is to have students virtually place themselves throughout the world through using Google Drawings. To do this students first require to find an image of themselves and get rid of the background from it. Photoscissors makes it quick and simple 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 place a photo of place that they wish to revisit or visit. Finally, they then place their profile picture over the background image in Google Drawings. Those steps may sound complicated, however theyre not. In this short video I show the entire procedure..