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Digital Learning Activities With Google Drawings |
Explore and create : Creation lab
Wednesday, December 2, 4:00–4:50 pm PST (Pacific Standard Time)
Rhonda Stroud McCutchen Tony Vincent
Google Drawings is great for designing graphics, and it’s also a handy interactive whiteboard. Teachers are using this whiteboard in clever ways. Activities include fill-in, arranging, sorting, labeling, meme creation and math manipulatives. See lots of examples that you can copy, modify and distribute to your students.
| Audience: | Teachers |
| Skill level: | Beginner |
| Attendee devices: | Devices required |
| Attendee device specification: | Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC |
| Participant accounts, software and other materials: | Attendees need a Google account in order to use Google Drawings. |
| Topic: | Distance, online & blended learning |
| Grade level: | PK-12 |
| ISTE Standards: | For Educators: Designer
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| Additional detail: | Session recorded for video-on-demand |
Google Drawings is a free web-based product that can help teachers package interactive lessons and share them with students. The canvas in Google Drawings can be filled with shapes, lines, colors, images, text, and hyperlinks. With a bit of ingenuity, a teacher can create an interactive activity or lesson within a Google Drawings document. The document can be distributed to students in a variety of ways, including through Google Classroom. It's easy for teachers and students to leave comments within the document, enabling feedback.
Many of the activities are distributed to the audience so they can try them during the presentation. The sample activities start simple with fillable graphic organizers. Then they become more advanced with drag and drop activities. Some of the most innovative activities involve hyperlinking, answer reveals, and diagram creation.
Almost all of the techniques demonstrated within Google Drawings can also be done in Google Slides. Students do need their own Google accounts to access Google Drawings and Google Slides.
Introduction
Google Drawings vs. Google Slides
Fill-in Activities
Arranging and Sorting
Labeling Activities
Hyperlinked Activities
Math Activities
Games
Conclusion
*Audience is invited to follow along in their own copies of the demonstrated documents.
What does research say about active learning? (Pearson)
https://www.pearsoned.com/research-active-learning-students/
To Learn, Students Need to DO Something (Jennifer Gonzalez)
https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/do-something/
Online Tools for Teaching and Learning: Google Drawings (University of Massachusetts Amherst, College of Education)
https://blogs.umass.edu/onlinetools/community-centered-tools/google-drawings/
Tony Vincent is a former fifth grade teacher who has been self-employed as a presenter and online educator for 15 years. Tony went back to the classroom to teach fifth grade for the 2018-2019 school year. While he’s proud to have lead workshops and presentations in almost all 50 states, empowering his students to be creative thinkers is his favorite professional accomplishment. Tony is a prolific sharer, approachable, and consistently selects practical tools and strategies that can be implemented right away. Find him online at learninginhand.com.
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