Google Drawings Fun and Ease

with the 4 Cs

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Straight from Google Support:

What is Google Drawings?

Insert text, shapes, arrows, scribbles, and images from your hard drive or from the Web to enhance a diagram or painting. Lay out drawings precisely with alignment guides, snap to grid, and auto distribution. Insert drawings into other Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides using the web clipboard, then tweak them inline.

In my view:

“It’s AWESOME!”

Canva

Google Draw

• https://www.canva.com/
• Create free account using Google single sign-on
• Pre-formatted templates for specific projects
• Can also create blank projects with custom dimensions
• Most elements are free, many hi res images available for $1
• Can download as jpg, png or pdf

• https://docs.google.com/drawings
• Automatically available to you in Google Drive
• Only blank canvases available
• Can make any dimension
• Use Research tool to drag in image elements
• Can download as jpg, png or pdf

VS

It naturally uses the 4 C’s

Google Draw

• Tutorial (Creating an “About Me” Page)
• Practical/Personal Use:
• cards, invitations, logos, social media headers, signature card (app smashing), annotation on pics or screenshots, etc...
• Classroom Applications:
• Logos for school events
• Graphic Organizers, More
• Posters, graphics, displays, book summaries, newsletters, back to school handouts, etc.
• Blog post
• http://goo.gl/qXcJdK (Seth)

Other Ideas

Lesson Ideas

• Word meaning
• K-W-L charts

Posters

• Book summaries
• Newsletters
• Handouts
• Summer Reading BINGO

Logos

• STEM Night
• Family Night
• Showcase for Upcoming High School Students

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Create Your own comic book!

Hyperdrawing

Adding Streaming Video to Google Drawings

How to create a Hyperdrawing

https://flippedtechcoaching.com/

Joli Boucher

GIFs in Google Drawing

• Create Google Drawings
• Download as PNGs
• Add into gifmaker.me

Your audience will be amazed.

Getting Creative with Google Drawings

Creative Uses of Google Drawings

10 Ways to use Google Drawings in the classroom

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Continue to the next slide for more examples

Google Drawings Resources

Google Support

Google Drawing Basics

Drawing Tutorial

Templates to download

Science Templates

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http://www.controlaltachieve.com/2016/03/google-drawings-greeting-cards.html

Google Slide Templates

Templates/ideas from Tom Spall

Digital Menu for Student Creation

Choose your own adventure stories by linking page to page (This can also be done in Google Forms

Year long digital portfolio of student work

Anything by Eric Curts (Control Alt Achieve)

goo.gl/6GwgWy

Fun for Math

Assignment

Fun for Language Arts

Rubric

Fun for Science

Rubric

Main Idea using the Explore Tool

Assignment

2nd graders’ examples

3 dimensional shapes

Forms of Energy Poster

Book Jacket

How to

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Interactive Examples

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Mixtures or Solutions

Timeline

Season Sorter

Classification Activity (2 min how-to video)

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**You can add these to Google Classroom as a template so that every student has his/her own copy.**

Credits

Special thanks to all the people who made and released these awesome resources for free:

• Presentation template by SlidesCarnival
• Photographs by Unsplash