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

As I discuss in the video above, you can modify this activity to be finished with Google Slides or Google Jamboard. And, as is likewise demonstrated in the video above, you can utilize Google Classroom to distribute a design template for the assignment.

The idea is to have students essentially position themselves throughout the world through using Google Drawings. To do this trainees first require to find an image of themselves and get rid of the background from it. Photoscissors makes it fast and easy to remove the background then download a brand-new background-free image. Once they have a photo of themselves then students open Google Drawings where they insert a photo of place that they desire to review or go to. Lastly, they then place their profile image over the background image in Google Drawings. Those steps may sound complicated, however theyre not. In this brief video I show the entire process..

As the brand-new school year starts lots of you may discover yourself searching for some originalities to start a conversation and get to know your new trainees while they likewise are familiar with each other. One thing that Ive always asked my trainees is “where worldwide would you go if you could go anywhere today?” Recently, Ive started considering turning that question into the prompt for an activity in which students learn a bit about
Google Drawings..

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