Artistic Skill
Not Necessary
Become a Google Drawing Ninja
Nancy Minicozzi @CoffeeNancy
Instructional Tech Coach
Las Virgenes Unified
Google Certified Innovator and Trainer
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What can you do with Drawings?
Timelines
Advertising posters
Virtual manipulatives
Classification charts
Graphic organizers
Mind maps
Flow charts
Interactive maps and images
Website buttons and banners
Slide themes
Infographics
Annotate photos
Examples
Graphic organizers for students to complete
All kinds of charts - teacher or student-created
Click and drag activities
Your turn!
Timelines
Let’s make a storyboard/comic!
Harry receives his Hogwarts letter.
They have thick fur that is two layers. The top layer is clear.
Create with shapes
Directed Draw Rock ‘n’ Roll Ninjas
♬🎵♩
Revision history for metacognition
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Twitter profiles for historical figures or literary characters
Download the template here
Nancy’s Instagram template
A picture is worth a thousand words - more when kids create
Infographics
How a Bill Becomes a Law
8th grade student created infographic
Add a caption with word art or create your own meme from scratch
Time to publish!
“Googlink”
Google Drawing Resources
Other helpful links:
Using Google Drawing for math manipulatives
Have students make memes in Google Drawing
Motivational posters in Drawing (includes templates)
Infographics toolbox
Shared in Drive Templates by Alice Keeler
To use:
Additional Resources for Infographics
Examples:
An infographic on how to design infographics:
Tips on researching, designing, publishing, and promoting
Alternate infographic creation tools
How Tos
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Create a New Drawing
Start in Google Drive
Name your Drawing
Click Untitled Drawing
Area will highlight
Type desired name and hit Return or Enter
The Canvas
Default Canvas:
Right click on the background to change its color
Resize Canvas Manually
You may want to resize when printing or inserting into another document.
Click and drag the handle in the lower right corner. You may need to go to a smaller view level to create room.
Resize with Page setup
Making a header image for Google Classroom? Set page size to 800 x 200 pixels.
Basic Menu
Undo/Redo
Zoom
Insert Objects
Insert Comment
Select
Toolbar changes according to what is selected
Insert Tools
Insert Text Box
Insert Image
Insert Shape
Insert Line
Each of these has its own formatting options
Shape & Line Options
Line style
Line start & end styles
Line weight
Outline color
Fill
color
These appear when a compatible object is selected
Image Options
These appear when an image is selected
Effects
New image same format
Reset
Mask w/ shape
Crop image
Formatting (Format Menu)
Format Text
Click for additional options
Active only when image selected
Many of these options are also available in the toolbar when an applicable item is selected on the canvas
Arrange Menu
Many of these options are also available by right-clicking on objects on the canvas
Place objects in front of or behind others
Align, center, or evenly space
Group or ungroup
Rotate or flip objects
The Magic Key
Sharing
Share button OR:
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Credits
Special thanks to all the people who made and released these awesome resources for free: