Where I’d Like to Go – An Icebreaker With 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 likewise demonstrated in the video above, you can use Google Classroom to disperse a design template for the task.

As the new school year begins lots of you may discover yourself looking for some originalities to start a conversation and get to know your new students while they also are familiar with each other. Something that Ive always asked my students is “where worldwide would you go if you could go anywhere today?” Just recently, Ive begun thinking about turning that concern into the timely for an activity in which students find out a bit about
Google Drawings..

The idea is to have trainees essentially put themselves anywhere in the world through the usage of Google Drawings. To do this students initially need to discover a photo of themselves and get rid of the background from it. Photoscissors makes it fast and simple to remove the background then download a new background-free image. Once they have a photo of themselves then students open Google Drawings where they insert an image of location that they desire to visit or review. Finally, they then insert their profile picture over the background image in Google Drawings. Those steps might sound complicated, but theyre not. In this brief video I show the whole procedure..

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