spark creativity in your classroom with google drawings - tcea 2017

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Creativity

in your

Classroom with

Drawings

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What is Google Drawing?

Why use Google Drawing?

How can Google Drawing be used in the

classroom?

How can a Google Drawing

be created?

Google Drawing

Highly Powerful

yet Highly

Overlooked

Google Drawing

What is Google Drawing?

Blank canvas

Draw shapes, lines, arrows

Design templates, diagrams

Insert text or graphics

Why Use Google Drawing?

Is free and easy to use

Runs online

Has many drawing features

Can be downloaded, shared,

or embedded

Let’s Try Out Google Drawings!

Go to:

goo.gl/V3uhXx

Let’s Collaborate!

Go to:

goo.gl/Spqv5y

Galveston Island 1900

Think about a lesson you will be teaching.

In The Classroom

Ways To Use Google Drawing

1. Give students ready made activities

2. Have students fill-in templates

3. Let students create from

scratch

Ready Made Activities

Drag & drop objects | Connect objects with arrows | Fill in shapes with color

Butterfly Life Cycle

goo.gl/V3Ipbg

Phases of the Moon

goo.gl/SNxccG

Seasons

goo.gl/twzcee

Fill-In Templates

Enter text | Add Images | Use as a guide

5 Senses Diagram

goo.gl/DG7xl9 State|Country Research

goo.gl/uhP4VU Sandwich Chart

goo.gl/98vzBJ

Sample Templates Access the folder of templates I have collected on the session resource page

goo.gl/dWvFW0

Sharing Drawings

When sharing templates,

share them as View Only

Students will need to make

a copy of the template

Force Copy of Drawings Replace /edit with /copy

Source: http://goo.gl/oVbboZ

Create Your Own

Directions Directions for creating a Google Drawing can be found on the

session resource page.

goo.gl/TWEkqq

Adding Shapes Many pre-made shapes

can be inserted and

then edited

Adding Images

Images can be added in

the following ways:

• Drag & Drop

• Insert Image

• Research Tool

Adding Text

Text can be added in:

• Text Boxes

• Shapes

Adding Connectors

Connect shapes, images,

and text with the:

• Elbow Connector

• Curved Connector

Adding Editors

Students can work

together by giving

editing rights

Publishing

To share your Google Drawing:

• Share as view only

• Download as an image

• Embed it on a website

Create Your Own 1. Create an ABOUT ME Google Drawing

•Name It

•Add Text, Images, Links

2. SHARE your Google Drawing

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Creative Uses

Ways To Use Google Drawing

• Teach math concepts such as lines of symmetry, shapes,

fractions, etc.

• Teach students how to tell time

• Create greeting cards

• Create chess and checkers for students

• Improve writing skills with magnetic poetry

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Highly Powerful

yet Highly

Overlooked

Google Drawing

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and then by topic within each category.

• Each recommended extension or app is then linked so

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