Google Drawings

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Submitting a discussion post

THE WHY

Google Drawings Links to an external site. is an online tool for creating diagrams, flowcharts, headers, and other images. Drawings allows you to create and edit pictures by using shapes, text boxes, lines, arrows, tables, other images, and more. These images can be downloaded as JPG, PNG, PDF or SVG files. They can easily be copied and pasted into Google Docs, Slides or Forms.

The brain-based research of Marcia Tate Links to an external site. and others supports the use of visuals to incorporate new learning into memory. Recall and recognition is enhanced by presenting information in both visual and verbal form Links to an external site..

Google Drawings can be used for formative assessment and nonlinguistic representations such as: graphic organizers, timelines, diagrams, pictographs, and flowcharts. It can be used to foster creativity and critical thinking. Students can use drawings to design, apply concepts, prove, compare, organize, categorize, classify, contrast, simplify, and identify relationships. It teaches communication skills as students work to create nonlinguistic models. Having visual representations of concepts or processes available to learners to pursue and walk through at their own pace is important.

Since these drawings can be easily shared within Google Drive, this provides easy collaboration and a way to provide students with effective feedback.

THE WHAT

Learning Outcomes

Instructors use Google Drawings to create visual representations for instruction.
Students use Google Drawings to create visual representations while learning.

Classroom Application

Create Graphic Organizers to be used for direct instructions, shared with students with editing rights. Links to an external site.
Students create infographics Links to an external site. to summarize research or present their learning.
Use to teach various math concepts Links to an external site.: geometry, fractions, addition and subtraction, algebraic expressions.
Create interactive posters Links to an external site..
Create comic strips Links to an external site.or Caption This lessons Links to an external site..
Create guides or tutorials, for example: Google Drawings Tips Page 1 Links to an external site.and Page 2. Links to an external site.
Teach grammar using the 8 pARTS lesson structure Links to an external site..
Students can create sketchnotes Links to an external site..
35 Creative Google Drawings Activities for Classes Links to an external site.

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THE HOW

Use these resources to learn about Google Drawings, watching and reading just what you need to implement Google Drawings in your lessons.

Using Google Drawings Links to an external site. a guide by Eric Curts
Google Drawings Cheat Sheet Download Google Drawings Cheat Sheet
by Shake Up Learning
Google Drawings Help articles Links to an external site.
Creating moveable digital activities with Google Drawings + Slides Links to an external site.
5 Neat Things Students can do with Google Drawings: Links to an external site.Edit an imported image(crop, add border, apply filters, add text, annotate); Create Word Art and customize a provided chart.
How to add clickable elements to a Google Drawing Links to an external site. video tutorial

Using Google Drawings in Canvas and Google Classroom

Since Drawings can be downloaded as image files, copied and pasted into Docs, Slides, Forms, or shared with editing or view only permissions, they can easily be added into a course.
How materials are shared in Classroom

EARN THE BADGE

See the attached rubric to know how your submission will be assessed (click 3 dot Options menu at the top and choose Show Rubric). To earn the badge, you must obtain 6 of the possible 7 points.

1. Design a lesson in which you apply what you have learned for use in your classroom, either by using Drawings yourself for instruction, or by having your students use it. See the Designing Tech Amplified Lesson for guidance on creating a lesson plan that uses digital tools.
2. Click Reply below and reflect on your lesson. In your reply include:
  - Did students demonstrate understanding of the learning target? If yes, how?
  - How did the use of Drawings amplify your lesson? Did it add value to the learning goal though engagement, enhancement or extension? Did it make you or your student more efficient and effective?
  - If you had the opportunity to teach this lesson again to this same group of students, what would you do differently? Why?
  - In your reply, you can choose to share an artifact or your lesson plan in the form of a shared link, screenshot (Links to an external site.), attached file (Links to an external site.), or embedded image (Links to an external site.). This is not required.