As the new academic year starts many you might find yourself looking for some originalities to start a conversation and get to understand your new students while they likewise are familiar with each other. Something that Ive always asked my trainees is “where in the world would you go if you could go anywhere today?” Recently, Ive begun thinking of turning that concern into the prompt for an activity in which trainees learn a bit about
Google Drawings..

As I mention 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 disperse a design template for the task.

The idea is to have students practically put themselves anywhere in the world through using Google Drawings. To do this trainees first require to find a photo of themselves and remove the background from it. Photoscissors makes it simple and fast to get rid of the background then download a brand-new background-free image. Once they have an image of themselves then trainees open Google Drawings where they insert a photo of place that they wish to revisit or visit. Lastly, they then insert their profile image over the background image in Google Drawings. Those steps might sound complex, but theyre not. In this brief video I reveal the entire process..