Google Drawing

Brief description of the tool:

• Create drawings and diagrams that can be easily transferred to other Google apps
• Import and edit images
• Can search for images through Drawing
• Share with others and allow others to edit the drawing
• Can use pre-made lines and images or can create your own
• Add text to your images

The first application that I can think of in regards to improving teaching and learning is to use the tool to edit diagrams or images. You can easily draw attention to important points through the use of arrows or you could easily circle or highlight them. You could also very easily use this program in conjunction with Picasa. It would be fun for students to edit photos in any way that they want to. I think that Drawing could be easily used in any classroom and I think that students would have a ton of fun with it, no matter there age.

My learning curve with drawing was very quick. I had used Microsoft Paint a lot in the past so it as a pretty easy transition for me. I like Drawing much more than Paint though, because there is a lot more that you can do with it. I wouldn't consider myself particularly tech savvy, and I had no problem figuring out what you can do with the program. I also found Google's Drawing blog very helpful in figuring out what exactly you can do with the program.

I contributed to the project by first just playing around with Drawing on my own. It is a very easy way to kill a bunch of time just playing around with it. After I got familiar with the program I detailed the basic features of it on our document. I also contributed my thoughts to the reflections portion of our document.

Here are the links for our work:
Drawing
Document