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

As I mention 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 utilize Google Classroom to distribute a design template for the task.

The concept is to have students practically place 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 quick to get rid of the background then download a new background-free image. Once they have a photo of themselves then students open Google Drawings where they place an image of location that they wish to check out or review. Finally, they then insert their profile photo over the background image in Google Drawings. Those actions may sound complicated, but theyre not. In this brief video I reveal the entire process..

As the new academic year starts numerous you might discover yourself trying to find some originalities to get and break the ice to know your new trainees while they also are familiar with each other. One thing that Ive constantly asked my trainees is “where worldwide would you go if you could go anywhere today?” Recently, Ive started thinking about turning that question into the timely for an activity in which students learn a bit about
Google Drawings..

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