The idea is to have students virtually position themselves anywhere in the world through using Google Drawings. To do this students initially need to find an image of themselves and eliminate 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 trainees open Google Drawings where they insert an image of place that they desire to go to or revisit. Finally, they then place their profile picture over the background image in Google Drawings. Those steps might sound complex, however theyre not. In this short video I show the entire procedure..

As the brand-new school year begins many you may find yourself searching for some new ideas to get and break the ice to understand your new trainees while they also get to understand each other. One thing that Ive constantly asked my students is “where worldwide would you go if you could go anywhere today?” Recently, Ive started considering turning that concern into the timely for an activity in which trainees discover a bit about
Google Drawings..

As I discuss in the video above, you can customize this activity to be completed with Google Slides or Google Jamboard. And, as is likewise demonstrated in the video above, you can use Google Classroom to distribute a template for the task.