Google Drawing is another tool within Google Drive that may be useful in the classroom. The use of this drawing tool is very simple and should be intuitive for anyone who has used a similar software, such as the drawing toolbar in Microsoft Office. Google Drawing enables students to insert lines, shapes, photos, clip art, text, and more; it could be used for simple charts or (for talented users) fairly intricate drawings.
In the elementary lesson plan I reviewed, "Book Buddies,"the teacher asks students to use a digital drawing tool to illustrate settings and characters for books they were creating. In a high school English language arts classroom such as I intend to teach, I can imagine using Google Drawings to allow students to work in dyads or triads to complete storyboards, either for books they have read or stories they are writing. I can also imagine asking students to use Google Drawings to design their own editorial/politcal cartoons in a lesson exploring inferences or graphic media. Designing and filling in graphic organizers for pre-writing and analysis strategies is another activity students may collaboratively complete using Google Drawing.
Although I probably will not use Google Drawing very frequently in the classroom, I am glad to know it is there for whenever I should wish to implement a lesson plan activity which requires students to work collaboratively to draw or design graphic organizers.
No, perhaps less useful at the secondary level, but thank you for taking a look at it anyway.
ReplyDeleteWell done.