google drawings Archives - Ditch That Textbook https://ditchthattextbook.com/tag/google-drawings/ Ed tech, creative teaching, less reliance on the textbook. Sun, 28 Nov 2021 15:47:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 Creating eye-popping infographics with Google Drawings https://ditchthattextbook.com/creating-eye-popping-infographics-with-google-drawings/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=creating-eye-popping-infographics-with-google-drawings https://ditchthattextbook.com/creating-eye-popping-infographics-with-google-drawings/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2020 17:29:17 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=4891 Infographics are visually stimulating and force us to summarize well. These brain-friendly student creations can be a great change of pace for essays and research papers.  Infographics are everywhere. I first started noticing them on the front page of USA Today as a journalism major in college. As Pinterest became more popular, the long, tall […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/creating-eye-popping-infographics-with-google-drawings/feed/ 19 20 digital bell ringer activities to kickstart class https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-digital-bell-ringer-activities-to-kickstart-class-part-1/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=10-digital-bell-ringer-activities-to-kickstart-class-part-1 https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-digital-bell-ringer-activities-to-kickstart-class-part-1/#comments Fri, 14 Feb 2020 04:21:56 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=5720 Quality bell ringers are crucial — quick activities to get students going at the beginning of class, when the bell has just rung. For these first five or ten minutes of class (OK, probably more the five than the ten), we have our students’ most attention. It’s the most focused they’ll likely be for us all […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-digital-bell-ringer-activities-to-kickstart-class-part-1/feed/ 4 The Google Drawings Manifesto for Teachers https://ditchthattextbook.com/the-google-drawings-manifesto-for-teachers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-google-drawings-manifesto-for-teachers https://ditchthattextbook.com/the-google-drawings-manifesto-for-teachers/#comments Mon, 10 Feb 2020 14:31:05 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=5453 Google Drawings is a blank slate for your students’ creativity. Find lots of tips, tricks and teaching ideas in this post.Google Drawings is the hidden gem in the core G Suite tools for education. Everyone is familiar with Google Docs, Google Slides and Google Sheets. They correlate nicely with the Microsoft Office products we used for […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/the-google-drawings-manifesto-for-teachers/feed/ 11 Add and pass: A fun activity to get them moving AND creating https://ditchthattextbook.com/add-and-pass-a-fun-activity-to-get-them-moving-and-creating/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=add-and-pass-a-fun-activity-to-get-them-moving-and-creating https://ditchthattextbook.com/add-and-pass-a-fun-activity-to-get-them-moving-and-creating/#comments Wed, 04 Sep 2019 16:02:36 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=10246 Have you ever played a game where someone begins a story then the next person adds to it, the next adds a little more and so on? Add and pass is a fun collaborative writing activity. Students must take what their classmates created and add something to it. It’s almost like improv, where actors must depend […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/add-and-pass-a-fun-activity-to-get-them-moving-and-creating/feed/ 1 Creating Mosaic Art with Google Drawings https://ditchthattextbook.com/creating-mosaic-art-with-google-drawings/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=creating-mosaic-art-with-google-drawings https://ditchthattextbook.com/creating-mosaic-art-with-google-drawings/#comments Mon, 13 May 2019 20:50:03 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=9879 Making Mosaic Art with Google Drawings is a fun way to get kids creating in the classroom. Here are the steps to get started along with 5 ideas for using this activity in the classroom.This post is written by Sarah Jacobs, a middle school technology and English teacher from San Jose, California. You can find […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/creating-mosaic-art-with-google-drawings/feed/ 4 25 FREE Google Drawings graphic organizers — and how to make your own https://ditchthattextbook.com/15-free-google-drawings-graphic-organizers-and-how-to-make-your-own/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=15-free-google-drawings-graphic-organizers-and-how-to-make-your-own https://ditchthattextbook.com/15-free-google-drawings-graphic-organizers-and-how-to-make-your-own/#comments Sat, 19 Jan 2019 16:02:45 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=2812 Using Google Drawings to create graphic organizers can help students gather their thoughts and customize to their needs. Sometimes, we just need some help organizing our thoughts — students AND educators. Paper versions of graphic organizers can do a nice job of that. But by making them digital in Google Apps, they instantly become customizable. Multiple […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/15-free-google-drawings-graphic-organizers-and-how-to-make-your-own/feed/ 62 10 fantastic Google tips from the Google Teacher Tribe https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-fantastic-google-tips-from-the-google-teacher-tribe/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=10-fantastic-google-tips-from-the-google-teacher-tribe https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-fantastic-google-tips-from-the-google-teacher-tribe/#respond Wed, 09 Jan 2019 12:33:07 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=8768 Google is so deep and so broad and so wide. It’s constantly updating and adding — and sometimes removing — features and services. It’s almost impossible to keep up. And even if you do, there’s no way to know all the best ways to use G Suite and all of the Google tools. It helps […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-fantastic-google-tips-from-the-google-teacher-tribe/feed/ 0 Caption This! A fun, deep-thinking Google Drawings activity https://ditchthattextbook.com/caption-this-a-fun-deep-thinking-google-drawings-activity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=caption-this-a-fun-deep-thinking-google-drawings-activity https://ditchthattextbook.com/caption-this-a-fun-deep-thinking-google-drawings-activity/#comments Wed, 03 Jan 2018 16:54:17 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=6328 This post is co-authored by Ditch That Textbook’s Matt Miller and Laura Steinbrink. Laura is a high school English teacher and tech coach from Plato, Missouri. Check out her blog, Rockin’ the Boat, at rockintheboat.com. If you are like me (Laura), you are constantly searching for a new, fresh activity to help connect your students with […]

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