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

As I point out in the video above, you can customize this activity to be finished with Google Slides or Google Jamboard. And, as is also demonstrated in the video above, you can utilize Google Classroom to distribute a template for the task.

The concept is to have trainees essentially put themselves anywhere in the world through the use of Google Drawings. To do this trainees initially require to find a photo of themselves and remove the background from it. Photoscissors makes it easy and fast 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 insert an image of place that they wish to visit or revisit. Lastly, they then place their profile picture over the background image in Google Drawings. Those actions might sound complex, however theyre not. In this brief video I show the entire procedure..

As the new school year starts numerous you may find yourself looking for some brand-new ideas to start the ball rolling and get to understand your new trainees while they also learn more about each other. Something that Ive constantly asked my trainees is “where worldwide would you go if you could go anywhere today?” Recently, Ive started thinking of turning that concern into the prompt for an activity in which students learn a bit about
Google Drawings..

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