Drawings

Math Teachers! When you assign #GoogleDocs through #GoogleClassroom, you can add coordinate planes into drawings for the students to graph on! #EduGIFs #edtech #edtechchat #Chromebooks #TLAP #TOSAChat http://jakemiller.net/insert-drawings-into-docs-being-assigned-in-classroom/

Eric Curts comes through again with another GREAT post on incorporating Drawings into your G Suite; especially Google Docs. The parts on captioning a picture, adding video to Docs (who knew?!?!), adding graphic organizers, and adding manipulatives are game changers!

I am a HUGE Eric Curts fan, but this post is definitely one of his best!

Click HERE for the slides presentation

We all have lessons where we want students to annotate a drawing, labeling parts of a cell, naming the states, whatever. You can do that in slides, but what if that is part of a larger assignment that involves typing? All you have to do is insert a drawing, put the picture in and have the students annotate it.

The video below shows how to do this, but I will walk you through it step by step.

* In your google doc go to insert, choose drawing and new drawing

* Paste the picture that you want the students to annotate adding any instructions with a text box.

* Save & close the drawing (The drawing will insert into your google doc where your cursor was when you went to insert in step 1)

* Instruct the students to double click the picture to annotate.

See the video here https://drive.google.com/file/d/14Z83jVJHqi0Nf51KAOajYlKb7ldftyDz/view

Extra Bonus tech tip

To quickly make bullets use the keyboard shortcut Crtl-Shift-8 for numbers Crtl-shift-7