I initially wrote this weblog publish and recorded the video in 2021 whereas fascinated about icebreaker actions for the beginning of the varsity yr. The exercise can also be nice for Geography Awareness Week.
The thought is to have college students nearly place themselves anyplace on the earth by way of the usage of Google Drawings. To do that college students first have to discover a image of themselves and take away the background from it. Photoscissors makes it fast and straightforward to take away the background then obtain a brand new background-free picture. Once they’ve an image of themselves then college students open Google Drawings the place they insert an image of place that they need to go to or revisit. Finally, they then insert their profile image over the background picture in Google Drawings. Those steps may sound sophisticated, however they don’t seem to be. In this quick video I present the entire course of.
As I point out within the video above, you may modify this exercise to be accomplished with Google Slides or Google Jamboard. And, as can also be demonstrated within the video above, you should utilize Google Classroom to distribute a template for the project.