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

The concept is to have students essentially place themselves anywhere in the world through the use of 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 simple and quick to eliminate the background then download a new background-free image. Once they have a photo of themselves then trainees open Google Drawings where they place an image of place that they wish to review or check out. Finally, they then place their profile image over the background image in Google Drawings. Those actions might sound complex, however theyre not. In this short video I show the entire process..

As the brand-new academic year begins lots of you may discover yourself looking for some originalities to start a conversation and get to know your brand-new trainees while they likewise learn more about each other. One thing that Ive always asked my students is “where on the planet would you go if you could go anywhere today?” Recently, Ive started thinking of turning that concern 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 modify this activity to be finished with Google Slides or Google Jamboard. And, as is likewise shown in the video above, you can use Google Classroom to distribute a template for the task.

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