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101 Ways to Ditch that Textbook with G Suite

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The Google Classroom Quick-Start Guide ebook (1)

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Learn how to use Classroom to manage coursework, organize assignments, boost collaboration, and foster better communication. Get started today with resources, tips, and tricks from the educator community.

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Teacher Center | Google Classroom Training

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Google Sheets Training | Teacher Center | Google for Education

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Get started with Google Sheets with training on the Google for Education Teacher Center.

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Google Slides Training | Teacher Center | Google for Education

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Google Resources

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Eric's Resources

Over time I have created quite a few help guides, presentations, and other training resources for Google-related topics and other educational technology topics. Although these resources can be found elsewhere on this site and other locations, I have pulled them all together in one place to make it easy for people to find a needed resource, as well as to be sure you are accessing the most recent version (rather than an older copy made by someone else).

All of these resources are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. For more information about this license see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ In short, you can copy, distribute, and adapt these resources as long as you give proper attribution and do not charge for them.

If you would like to bring me to your school or organization to provide training on any of these topics, please see the detailed list of training sessions and services I provide in my Google Apps Training and Service Offerings document.

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Eric's Resources Over time I have created quite a few help guides, presentations, and other training resources for Google-related topics and other educational technology topics.

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Google Keep Resources

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Google Keep is a application that allows you to create notes and checklists. It integrates with Google Docs making it an easy way to add feedback to student work. Create a Checklist When you go to keep.google.com you want to click on where it says "Take a...

Collaboration is what Google does best. Google Keep allows you to share your notes. Click on the collaborator icon at the bottom of your note. If you are on your phone, click on the 3 dots in the bottom right to find the collaborator icon. How many times have I sent a...

Google Keep is Amazing What note keeping app let's you access from any device anywhere? GOOGLE KEEP! Don't be stuck with notes on your phone! Essentially Google Keep is like digital Post It Notes, but GOOGLEY! So that means that searching notes and...

Try Keep.new to Make a Quick Keep Note I love Google Keep! It's like Post It™ Notes but better! It's tied to your Google account so you can access anywhere on any device. Install the Google Keep app on your phone and back on your computer go to...

Use the Drawing Feature in Google Keep Google Keep is a quick note taking app with some amazing features. One of my favorite Google Keep features is the ability to take a picture of something with text on it and extracting the text out of the picture. keep.google.com...

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Google Keep is a application that allows you to create notes and checklists. It integrates with Google Docs making it an easy way to add feedback to student work. Create a Checklist When you go to keep.google.com you want to click on where it says "Take a... Collaboration is what Google does best.

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Google Sheets Resources

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In my Intro to Google Sheets spreadsheets webinar I showed 6 key skills that you need for teaching with Google Sheets spreadsheets. One of the things we covered in the webinar is how to create a seating chart using Google Sheets. Resize the Cells To the left of the...

My favorite part of Google Sheets is inserting checkboxes! WICKED USEFUL FOR TEACHERS! My daughter is helping me with my YouTube thumbnails (check out her handiwork and subscribe to my channel 🙂 She is using a Google Sheets spreadsheet to keep track of how many...

Today someone asked me if they could hyperlink parts of the text within a cell in Google Sheets and I responded with no. Literally minutes later I was editing a spreadsheet cell that happened to have a hyperlink in the cell and all of a sudden the link became live. I...

Updating One Google Sheets Spreadsheet From Another You have more than one spreadsheet of data. You need the information from one spreadsheet to interact with the data in another spreadsheet. There are 2 ways to do this in Google Sheets. Copying and pasting from one...

Split Up Text in a Spreadsheet When pasting text into a spreadsheet sometimes you do not want one cell to have all of the text. The best example being when you have first and last name in the same cell. Data Menu Highlight the cells that have text you wish to split...

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In my Intro to Google Sheets spreadsheets webinar I showed 6 key skills that you need for teaching with Google Sheets spreadsheets. One of the things we covered in the webinar is how to create a seating chart using Google Sheets. Resize the Cells To the left of the...

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Google Drawing Resources

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I think I have an addiction to creating drop shadows in Google Drawing (and Google Slides.) It just adds a little pop to all of my text. Notice the two images I created in Google Drawing. The one on the left ,the Control W (which closes a browser tab by the way) has a...

Two Tips Sheets for Google Drawing I create all of my stickers and blog post featured images in Google Drawing. It is something I use daily to communicate visually and digitally. I have created two tips sheets to share with some ways to get the most out of Google...

Resize a Google Drawing The default size of a Google drawing is 960 x 720 pixels (10″ by 7.5″). There are many reasons to need a different sized canvas. For example, when creating an image for Twitter the image needs to be 400 x 200 pixels. When I want to...

Create in Google Drawing and Insert into Google Slides If you have created an infographic or other image in Google Drawing, you can insert it into your Google Slides presentation. I should note that the drawing engine in Google Drawing is the same as Google Slides so...

If you have never played the game Connect 4 you are woefully sheltered and should run to Target and play the game with your kids. Awhile back Matt Gomez shared his template for playing Connect 4 in Google Drawings. It is a fun activity to show how you can use Google...

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I think I have an addiction to creating drop shadows in Google Drawing (and Google Slides.) It just adds a little pop to all of my text. Notice the two images I created in Google Drawing. The one on the left ,the Control W (which closes a browser tab by the way) has a...

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Google Slides Resources

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When teaching remotely, or just when teaching with digital tools, using Google Slides is a giant help! Students can create muti-media representations of their work and since Google Slides are collaborative you can see their work in real time. Now you want to be able...

How to Update Student Google Sides If you have a Google Slides PER STUDENT in an assignment in Google Classroom you may want to update the students slides. You could open each students slides and copy paste new slides. OR you can use my Add-on Reuse GC to push slides...

In Google Slides or Google Drawing you can create a Venn Diagram by creating 2 circles and adjusting the transparency of the fill color. Perfect Circles The trick to a perfect circle is to hold down the Shift key when you draw the circle. Fill Color - Reduce...

If you create a Google Slides template and want to share it with others you can modify the end of the Slides URL to turn your slides into a template. /template/preview JigSaw Template Change the Sharing Permissions By default the sharing permissions on any file is...

John McGowan is a GENIUS!!!! He is the inventor of g(Math) Add-on (which is now EquatIO), and he recently released Automagical Forms that turns your PDF worksheets into a Google Form. He has now coded adding voice typing to Google Slides and made it FREE!!! John is a...

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Google Forms Resources

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Many schools are starting remotely in the Fall and this is going to necessitate getting some materials into Google Forms. Google Forms is an amazing way to have students submit their work digitally. You do not have to open up individual PDF's and hope that the...

Google has fixed the glitch where when you try to add a Google Form to a Google Classroom assignment there was no filter option for Google Forms. Not only have they added Google Forms to the filter, you can now easily add your Jams from Jamboard. Search Bar at the Top...

One way to differentiate your lessons is to use a branching Google Form to first find out if the student even needs the information. In a traditional face to face class I would get the entire classes attention to take notes on my math lesson. Now mind you, I taught...

When using a Microsoft Form you can add a YouTube video or Microsoft Stream video to a question. This allows you to ask the responder to view the video and answer a question about the video. Microsoft Forms Playlist Microsoft Stream Playlist Microsoft Stream is a...

How do you take attendance for remote learning? Lots of ways. One way for Google Classroom is to use the ask a question feature. I can easily from Classroom see a count of how many have submitted. But Google Forms is probably a better choice so you can use the same...

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Google Classroom Resources

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Student-Centered Classrooms with Google Classroom

Google Classroom at it's heart allows you to distribute work and collect it. It does not make learning better, more engaging, more student-centered... none of that. YOU DO! How you use a tool is what makes the difference. It is an intentional decision to design lessons, that include Google Classroom, that engage and empower students.

One of the most powerful elements of Google Classroom is the private comments feature. For every assignment (not announcement) is the ability to have a private conversation with students. Whoa, let me say that again. Google Classroom turns comments into conversations. This allows every student to have a voice and communicate their ideas or struggles with a task. If we want a student-centered classroom, then we need a method to hear from students.

Respond to Feedback Topic

Students learn more when the feedback is ACTIONABLE. Perhaps you want to create a topic at the top for "Respond to Feedback." Change the topic on an assignment you've given feedback on to the "Respond to Feedback" topic. Only after they respond to your feedback do you release the score.
More tips on using Topics

What Are We Doing TODAY?

If you are organizing your Google Classroom by unit, you may want to have a topic called "TODAY" at the top. As soon as students go to the Classwork page they immediately see what is planned for today. What is also helpful about that is you can revisit assignments by changing the topic to "TODAY." At the end of the day, you need to edit each assignment and change the topic to the unit you want to organize it into.

I like to recommend that if you are going to leave feedback, make it actionable. When you finish providing feedback to students on an assignment, edit the assignment to change the topic to "TODAY." Consider this being your warmup to have students respond to the feedback you left them. Tip: Do not release the score until students respond to your feedback.

Google Classroom for Beginners

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Student centered teaching with Google Classroom - resources including blog posts, ideas, tutorials, and more by EdTech integration expert Alice Keeler.

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You can do SO much more you can do with Google Classroom

Google classroom is great for speed, simplicity, and efficiency but not all functions are easy to get at first and even if you're a pro there are always new updates and features we need to dive into. So we have compiled our best Google Classroom resources into one ultimate resource to get you geared up and ready for a great year.

If you or your students are new to Google Classroom you may be looking for tutorials that will show you the basics of Google Classroom and show you how to get started.

Our Google Classroom is just like our regular classroom in many ways. Our Google Classroom management is extremely important and can save us a lot of time (and headache) if we manage it correctly!

There are SO many apps that play very nicely with Google Classroom! Some of these apps are Google tools and can be shared with students easily. Other apps are made to work with Google Classroom to make creation and collaboration for you and your students easy peasy.

Even after years of using Google Classroom there are still SO many undiscovered ways to it. Check out our favorite tips, tricks and tutorials for making the MOST out of Google Classroom.

Google Classroom Basics

The Google Classroom quick-start guide

Google Classroom makes organizing and managing all of your Google Apps activities streamlined and easy. Set it up in minutes.

This guide will show you how to set Google Classroom up in a matter of minutes and perform the main tasks. It will even address a few things Classroom will NOT do, as it's not a fully-featured learning management system.

Managing your Google Classroom

Apps that work with Google Classroom

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You can do SO much more you can do with Google Classroom Google classroom is great for speed, simplicity, and efficiency but not all functions are easy to get at first and even if you're a pro there are always new updates and features we need to dive into.

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Google Sheets might look a little scary and a bit threatening at first glance but once you take the time to unlock its secrets you'll discover that it can do so much more than just crunch numbers.

So how can we get started using Google Sheets ourselves? And what are some great Google Sheets activities that we can use with our students?

During our weekly #DitchBook Twitter chat (Thursdays at 7 p.m. PST / 8 p.m. MST / 9 p.m. CST / 10 p.m. EST), hosted by Craig Klement, we discussed these questions and more. We even had some Google Sheets gurus stop by the chat to drop their knowledge and share some ideas for unlocking the power of Sheets!

Educators shared tons of great tips and tricks to help you get started using Sheets along with ideas for using them with your students. In addition to the 10 tricks you will find below we also curated the resources shared for using Google Sheets in the classroom. Be sure to check out this copyable Wakelet to see 30 ideas for using this versatile G Suite app with your class!

10 Google Sheets tricks you (probably) don't know about
Click on the numbered subtitles for links to tutorials, videos, or blog posts.

3. The double-click to fill down trick

A1; my other favorite thing to do is lock sheets or cells so students can't change what I've written, but they can add to it! #DitchBook
- Krista Harmsworth (@zonie71) May 10, 2019

A2: My favorite Google Sheets tricks are setting up check boxes and using data validation to create drop down menus within cells. These are great to know tricks for setting up a sheet as a rubric. #DitchBook
- Nicholas Taylor (@n_taylor05) May 10, 2019

A2: My absolute new & fav trick in Google Sheets is using macros to run the same set of steps on all my sheets as I ran on the 1st sheet all in 1 little Click. You have go to try Record & Run a Macros! 💥 #ditchbook pic.twitter.com/FjIZNF79j9
- Vicki (@33heupel) May 10, 2019

*Lance learned this tip from Jake Miller's GIF-a-Day Google Sheets Ninja Level 1 course. Fill out this form to get on the list for the next session coming up soon!

Also learned to use the $ sign in front of the column or row to lock the formula so it doesn't change.
- Dr. Lance McClard (@drmcclard) May 10, 2019

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Google Drawing Resources

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Ed Tech

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 years and years.
Google Drawings doesn't fit into a nice, neat box like that.
Here it is in a nutshell:

Google Drawings is like a digital posterboard. (Or a big digital sheet of paper.) It has a few things you can add: text, images, shapes and lines. That's it, which makes the Google Drawings learning curve pretty low for students.

When you're done with Drawings, you can go to File > Download as ... to save the file as an image file (JPEG or PNG) or a PDF file.

This powerful tool has lots of potential!

Below we'll show you:

Some of the sneaky features you might not know about
How students can create with it
How students can collaborate and think with it
Plus scroll down for TONS of Google Drawings resources!

What can you do with Google Drawings?

Plenty! Just by clicking and playing around with the main elements mentioned above gives you a pretty basic idea of what it can do. It's pretty intuitive; you and your students will get a grasp of it pretty quickly.

There are a handful of features that take Google Drawings to the next level:

Equal size: When you create text, images or shapes, it's easy to make sure they're the same size. While resizing, these blue bracket lines show you which items are the same size horizontally or vertically.

Equal spacing: Distributing everything equally makes your creations look nice and neat. The blue bracket lines also show you when spacing between items is equal.

Centering and lining up: That's what the red lines are for. As you move something around on the page, they'll show you what it's centered with or what it's lined up with on the edge.

Other sneaky features on Google Drawings:

The nudge. When you click on something and move it with your arrow keys, that moves it five pixels at a time. (Let's call that "the scoot" -- scooting it over five pixels is a bit of a jump.) If you want to move something more precisely, use "the nudge". Hold in shift while you move with the arrow keys. That moves one pixel at a time. Very handy!

Resize everything. When you highlight multiple items on the screen, you can resize them all at once. Say you have nine rectangles and you want to resize all of them equally. Highlight them all and use the little squares on the corners or edges to resize them all.
If you want to resize everything proportionately, hold the shift key while you resize.

Line everything up equally. Highlight multiple items on your screen and use the following commands:

Arrange > Align vertically to line everything up top to bottom

Arrange > Align horizontally to line everything up side to side

Arrange > Center on page to bring your items to the midline of the drawing

Arrange > Distribute to make the spacing between items equal

Add images responsibly. When you add images with a laptop or Chromebook using Insert > Image > Search, you'll find images that Google has identified that can generally be used publicly. They're labeled "for commercial reuse with modification" and include Creative Commons images, images in the public domain and others. You still may want to verify you're using the image, ethically, though. Here are some details on that in a Google support page.

How can students use Google Drawings to create?

There's so much potential here. Because Google Drawings is like a blank slate, the possibilities for classroom implementation are limitless!

Idea 1: Interactive, multimedia posters.

Give the old poster project a new twist. Create them in Google Drawings instead. The benefits:

Trade in markers for cool fonts

Quit cutting pictures out of magazines and start adding digital images (see above)

No glue sticks to put things on your poster

No glitter mess all over your room!

The biggest benefit: You can add clickable links to these posters. Link to video, audio, images and interactive websites to make your poster an interactive, multimedia one.
Click here to see a post full of ideas about Google Drawings interactive posters.
Idea 2: Eye-catching infographics

Have you seen those tall infographics on Pinterest or other social media? They seem to be everywhere!

They're really easy to create with Google Drawings, and they can put a fun twist on gathering information and presenting it in your class.

Instead of doing a traditional essay or research report, consider creating an infographic instead!

Some hints for kicking them up to the next level:

Use icons. TheNounProject.com has tons of icons you can use to illustrate your ideas in an infographic. Download the icon, give appropriate attribution and place it in your graphic.

Add lines. I've started getting more and more creative with how I break up content with lines. In the button panel below (left to right), you can change the color of your line, change its size (width), change the type of line and change the start and end of the line. Sometimes, I'll add a four-pixel line next to a two-pixel line. Other times, I'll make a really big, bold, 24-pixel line. If you want to make lines bigger than that, create a rectangle shape and stretch it to the size of line you want.

Stick to a couple fonts. Many times, I'll only use two or three fonts in an infographic: a big, bold one for headlines, a simple, easy-to-read one for text, and maybe a third to spice things up.

Check out this video for the how-to's and how it fits into the classroom.

Blackout poetry takes standard text (from a newspaper or magazine article ... really any text you find). The artist then uses a marker and blacks out all of the words except for a select few, leaving a pithy piece of prose behind.

I was first introduced to blackout poetry by Austin Kleon, author of the books "Steal Like an Artist" and "Show Your Work".

You can do blackout poetry with Google Drawings, too! It's a fun way to look at text a little closer, to identify important words, and to remix something into your own creation.

Check out this video for the how-to's and how it fits into the classroom.
Click here for more ideas for using Google Drawings to create blackout poetry in the classroom.
Idea 5: Comic Strips

There is power in students having to go through the creative process. They need to synthesize their thinking in order to produce. Higher level thinking occurs when students create a non-linguistic representation of their ideas.

Plus, it lets students tap into their inner creativity - which is a fun and even effective practice in the classroom. Letting students pursue their creativity not only increases students' engagement in class but also empowers them to take ownership of their learning.

Google Drawings is a great medium for giving students this creative outlet. It lets them create a framework with shapes, add speech/thought bubbles, and insert images in one place!

Check out this video to see the making of a Google Drawing comic strip.
Click here for more ideas for adding Google Drawings comic strips to your class.
Idea 6: Create moveable digital activities

Giving students a space to make meaning, to make something out of pieces they're given, to describe their thinking visually by reorganizing - THAT'S better learning than a simple digital worksheet.

Moveable activity boards. Virtual manipulatives. Digital interactive activities.

Whatever they're called, Google Slides and Google Drawings were made for creating them. Create a background image, add the image to a slides presentation, create moveable icons with text and assign to students!

Check out this video for the how-to's and see how it fits into the classroom.

How can students use Google Drawings to collaborate and think?

The great thing about Google Drawings -- and most Google products -- is the ability to share. Use the blue "Share" button in the top right corner to give other people access to your drawings. Then they can jump in and view it, comment on it and/or edit it (depending on the sharing settings you create).

Idea 7: Do brain-friendly visual notetaking

Our classes are often filled with words, but our brains do their thinking in pictures. They just have to convert words over to images before their work can begin.

Our brains also tend to remember more when we connect different types of input -- and a powerful combination is verbal and visual input. That means combining words and images. It's sticky learning at its best!

Google Drawings are made for visual notetaking:

Pull in images with an image search inside Google Drawings.

Draw things out with your mouse, touchpad or a touchscreen laptop/Chromebook with the scribble tool (found in the dropdown menu for the line tool)

Bring in icons from TheNounProject.com (like we did in infographics)

Draw something on paper and take a picture of it with your webcam using Insert > Image > Take a snapshot

Students can collaborate on their visual notes as well. (Two brains are better than one!) Just have students share a Google Drawing with their classmates and they can both work in the same digital space.

Understanding different viewpoints is also a great way to delve deeply into a topic. When students can take the place of the person in the image, it helps them see what's happening in a whole new light.

This activity requires more critical thinking than the first. By taking the character's perspective, students make an inference (deduce or conclude from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements). Inferring is on the second level of Webb's Depth of Knowledge (skill/concept). We're adding more critical thinking here!

Select a picture that either introduces your current lesson focus or is key to your subject for the lesson and let students caption it. You can add the image to a Google Drawing and share it with students through Classroom OR, you can have students create a new Google Drawing and add the image themselves.

Add a thought bubble or speech bubble. Give students a prompt for filling in the bubble, or give them freedom!

When they're done, have students turn the image in to you via Google Classroom (or however you collect digital work).

Click here for more ideas for fun, deep-thinking Google Drawings activities.

Idea 9: Encourage deep thinking with graphic organizers

Many times, students need a little guidance in walking through a deep thought process. They're capable of doing deep thinking if we provide some concrete steps.

That's what makes graphic organizers great.

Google Drawings is a natural spot for creating and using graphic organizers. Use shapes, text boxes and lines to draw out your own graphic organizers.

When you're done, share them with your students! There are a couple ways:

Share them via Google Classroom. Attach them to an assignment and choose the "Make a copy for each student" option in the dropdown menu to the right of the attachment. That way, each student will have his/her own copy of the graphic organizer to write on.

Use the /copy trick. When you get a link to a Google document, slide presentation or something else, often the URL has "/edit" at the end. Try this: delete the word edit (and anything else after it) and type the word "copy" instead. It'll change from this:
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/169dDturzudjUhhGfQZc8SuazlhPTJYhq6r7qs8D_vIo/edit
... to this:
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/169dDturzudjUhhGfQZc8SuazlhPTJYhq6r7qs8D_vIo/copy
When students call up the second link with the word copy in it, it'll prompt them to make a copy of the file.

Share a "view" link with them. Click the "Share" button and click "Get shareable link". Choose "Anyone with the link can view." Give students that link and ask them to go to File > Make a copy. That will make a copy into their own Google Drives.

Don't want to make your own graphic organizers? I have you covered. I've created more than 15 graphic organizers in Google Drawings that you can copy and use. That way, you don't have to reinvent the wheel!
Click here to see all of those Google Drawings graphic organizers and how to make your own.

Google Drawings Templates

Finding the perfect activity for our class can be difficult because every class, and every student, is unique. Templates give us a starting point and allow us to create a lesson or activity that is just right for our class.

TONS of Google Drawings ideas!

Even more Google Drawings resources!

Looking for even MORE Google Drawings goodies? Check out our collection of videos and podcasts all about ... you guessed it ... Google Drawings!

Blackout poetry takes standard text (from a newspaper or magazine article ... really any text you find). The artist then uses a marker and blacks out all of the words except for a select few, leaving a pithy piece of prose behind. You can do blackout poetry with Google Drawings, too! Check out this video for the how-to's and how it fits into the classroom.

Want to infuse a lesson in the classroom with student-created animation?

Google Drawings is such an easy way to put your ideas into motion on the screen. In this video, you'll learn how to create your own animation INCLUDING the fun extra features you can add to it, how to present it AND how it can be used in the classroom.

Watch the creation of a Google Drawings infographic in 90 seconds (with TheNounProject.com icons).

Watch a Google Drawings comic strip come to life in 90 seconds!

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