As the new school year starts lots of you might discover yourself trying to find some originalities to get and break the ice to understand your new students while they also get to know each other. Something that Ive constantly asked my trainees is “where in the world would you go if you could go anywhere today?” Recently, Ive begun thinking of turning that question into the prompt for an activity in which students discover a bit about
Google Drawings..

As I point out in the video above, you can modify this activity to be completed with Google Slides or Google Jamboard. And, as is also demonstrated in the video above, you can use Google Classroom to disperse a template for the task.

The idea is to have students practically position themselves throughout the world through making use of Google Drawings. To do this trainees initially require to find an image of themselves and eliminate the background from it. Photoscissors makes it easy and fast to eliminate the background then download a brand-new background-free image. Once they have a picture of themselves then trainees open Google Drawings where they insert a photo of location that they desire to check out or review. Lastly, they then place their profile photo over the background image in Google Drawings. Those steps might sound complex, but theyre not. In this brief video I show the whole process..