As the new school year starts numerous you might find yourself looking for some new ideas to break the ice and get to know your new students while they also get to understand each other. One thing that Ive constantly asked my trainees is “where in the world would you go if you could go anywhere today?” Just recently, Ive started thinking of 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 modify this activity to be completed with Google Slides or Google Jamboard. And, as is also shown in the video above, you can use Google Classroom to distribute a design template for the project.

The idea is to have trainees essentially place themselves throughout the world through the usage of Google Drawings. To do this trainees first require to find an image of themselves and eliminate the background from it. Photoscissors makes it easy and quick to remove 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 check out or revisit. They then place their profile picture over the background image in Google Drawings. Those actions might sound complex, but theyre not. In this short video I reveal the entire procedure..