The first thing I explored related to Google drawings was Eric Curts' Create Your Own Story Cubes with Google Drawings. It was a cinch to download his templates and incorporate them into one of my already existing lesson plans about the basic elements of fiction. I can easily push the templates out to my students through Google classroom and give them a choice of words, pictures, or emojis. The story cubes make it easy to differentiate learning for non-readers, non-writers, and English Language Learners. Students can either write or verbally tell a story with prompts from the cubes which have either words or pictures. Next, I looked into creating badges in Google drawings that I could award to my students through Google classroom. Michelle Luhtala and Brenda Boyer have successfully used badges to help motivate students and provide feedback, but they use a feature embedded in Moodle. To assign digital badges to students through Google Classroom involves a two-step process of creating the badges in Google drawings and awarding the badges through a Google sheets add-on called "Magical Digital Badges." Creating the awards in Google drawing is not too difficult, although I had to Google some steps to get the job done. The Google sheets add-on is very cumbersome at this point. I don't think most educators will take the time to figure it out. Hopefully, Google Classroom will have this feature embedded in the future.
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Polly-Alida Farrington
2/3/2019 09:46:33 pm
Oh, I so wish google classroom would make it easier to do badging and add images in general. A lot of the google sheets addons are terrific, but getting some of them to work is indeed painful! It really has to be a great timesaver to make it worth the effort.
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