Creating and Collaborating with Google Drawings

For the past few years, Boone students have been successfully using Google Apps for Education to create documents, slideshows, and spreadsheets that are easily saved on the web. One often overlooked app is Google Drawings, which allows students to create and edit images that can be saved online. Like all Google apps, Drawings is collaborative, enabling students to share their creations with others and work together with peers on the same image.

Some students in Leshia Anderson's high school Spanish classes recently used Google Drawings to make posters celebrating Mexico's Day of Independence and National Hispanic Heritage Month. The assignment gave students the chance to work with a partner on an informative project that would explain these important events and draw in an audience. Here's one awesome student example:

Students in Mrs. Gus's class created similar posters using Google Drawings to share what they learned about Costa Rica:

To learn more about Google Drawings, check out these resources created by Kasey Bell at Shake Up Learning:

Google Drawings Cheat Sheet

10 Ways to Use Google Drawings in the Classroom