spark creativity in your classroom with google drawings - tcea 2017

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Spark

Creativity

in your

Classroom with

Drawings

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DIANA BENNER

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Google Drawing Time Lapse

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In the next 90 min . . .

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

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ZxU0HDUcC_RoBYrIHYCegXMAivXgububh4MV7lp5HAk/edit?pref=2&pli=1

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1lwaGZrOFHhF0FB3twgReTdEQ0OmtVOmsYyaH1pO5Itk/edit?pref=2&pli=1

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1W_ZulRvFdde-0y4g2mrq8buR9VJnOsY-SpGa3DcDF0g/edit?pref=2&pli=1


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

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1AK2dMTxFN1RUbK69b6rNjbue2eIwMWqIGDVjOSus9MQ/edit?pref=2&pli=1

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1U5Y2oPEF_zMNEPW0DY6eWSQo1FLMMncRBFZWXuYParI/edit?pref=2&pli=1

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1N2r8N6qFRFAXprv-kcofp7Yf6W9fTlVyiXLroPtYO3Y/edit?pref=2&pli=1


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

goo.gl/dWvFW0

http://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.

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http://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

padlet.com/diana_benner/aboutme


More

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

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Overlooked

Google Drawing


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