Google Drawings
Tech Tip Tuesday (March 12, 2024)
Unlock your students' creative (and productive) potential with Google Drawings!
In today's fast-paced classroom, technology plays a pivotal role in fostering creativity, engagement, and productivity among students and teachers alike. Google Drawings, a versatile tool within the Workspace for Education, offers a wealth of opportunities to enhance the learning experience. With its intuitive interface and collaborative features, this digital canvas empowers students to visually explore concepts, express their ideas, and work together on projects in a dynamic and interactive manner. Use it from 🟦Google Docs or on its own!
With Google Drawings, anyone can easily 🧠brainstorm🧠 and 🗺️mind map concepts📍, 🧑🏫creating virtual whiteboards where ideas can flow freely🧑🏫.
Teachers can use it for interactive diagrams, educational games, or simply making abstract concepts more concrete and engaging.
Meanwhile, students can use drawing tools to storyboard narratives, mind map ideas, and design multimedia projects, cultivating their creativity and critical thinking skills. The real-time collaboration capabilities enable seamless teamwork, facilitating the exchange of ideas and promoting productive group dynamics.
By embracing the potential of Google Drawings, educators and learners alike can embark on a journey of interactive, collaborative, and visually stimulating learning experiences, unlocking new realms of creativity and productivity in the classroom.
Need some inspiration or ideas of how it can work?
Check them out below!
🏀 Design a jersey for a person from history or a character out of a novel or short story!
Great to use during March Madness!
🔤 Use it for a word study to work on morphology and meanings with a bit more fun with Marzano!
🥪 Make paragraph writing a breeze with this sandwich chart!
🧲 Make wordplay fun with magnetic poetry!
For even more ideas and templates to use tomorrow, check out the links from popular educational personalities AND teachers in the classroom.
🤔 Want to try any of these, but are unsure of where to start? 🫤
Put me in, coach, I'm ready to play!
Let's co-teach and plan together!
A two-fer for the people!
This week's resources come from two familiar favorites, myON Reading and Google Arts & Culture.
Although the reading calendar is from 2022, check out great individual or read-aloud titles from myON about influential women in society or in fiction!
Want to go further than the typical folks who are brought up in Women's History Month?
Interact with writing, historical documents, and art of women in the Google Arts & Culture collection who were unabashedly themselves, even when it wasn't in the zeitgeist.
Why do basketball players who love Legos never make it to March Madness?
Because they only throw bricks!
Brian Krause, Instructional Technology Coach
Email: bkrause@ltcillinois.org
Booking Link: https://calendly.com/bkrauseltc
Phone: (815) 362-4791
Twitter: @bmkeducation



