Drawing

Experience Learning to Use Google Drawing
Google Drawing offers digital drawing board. After watching a few tutorials, I found Google Drawing very interesting and easy to be mastered. Google Drawing shares similarities with Google Documents in terms of text editing, comments, chat, share, download.However, Google Drawing's highlight is drawing functions.

To learn in-depth, I created a Google Drawing by clicking "New" and "Google Drawing".It was so cool to have a wide open space just for drawing. Toolbar offers functions to insert and edit all kinds of lines, shapes, shape and line colors, images, text.After inserting some lines and shapes, I clicked a certain part to change its color. I can also click the "select" tool to select the whole board if I want To re-position the lines or shapes,I just need to tapped on them to drag to anywhere.I have to select the central circle on the top of a shape to rotate it.I can also change the background color. I had two shapes overlapped. In order to show both of them, I selected the shaped, right-clicked the mouse device and chose "order" and "send backward". This is very important when creating a complicated drawing.I can insert images by uploading, choosing from my album, by URL, taking a snapshot or searching, which is very similar to Google Documents.Inserting text inside or outside of the shapes are available too.After I finished, I could download into many formats such as PDF, SVG, JPG,PNG or email it to others.

It's such a creative tool to help teachers with lesson presentation and to provide a digital board for students to practice drawing.

Exploring Middle School-Tangram Square

This lesson plan thoroughly connects Google Drawing with mathematical figures.It implies Tangram Square in the lesson with the use of "The Sage's Journey". I have never heard of this story before but I consider it one of the highlights of this lesson plan. It vividly explains what Tangram Square is and inspires students to create various kinds of images with the seven shapes:two big right triangles, one medium triangle, two small right triangles, a square and a parallelogram.The lesson's objectives are that students will learn and explore the names of the shapes and the key vocabulary of flip 90 degree, flip horizontal, flip vertical. They will also construct their own Tangram creations using Google Drawing.With the ease of editing shapes on Google Drawing, students can achieve this objectives by flipping around the shapes and creating their own stylish Tangrams.

Google Drawing's unique feature allows more than one student to work on a drawing together at the same time. This lesson will instruct students to share the puzzle with another to make the square using Google Drawing. It lets students use Google Presentation with the characters made from the shapes to present their stories.

This lesson plan shows clear objectives, instructions and creativity. It makes good use of technology integration such as Google Drawing and Presentations to help students explore knowledge and meet Common Core State Standards.

Comments on Common Core State Standards Concerning Drawing

Google Drawing is meant to create flow charts, custom graphs, informational posters, and graphic designs to publish online using the document's unique URL.These features of Google Drawing helps students exceed CCSS's  Writing, Math, Science, Social Study and Technical Subjects.

The CCSS Anchor Standard 1 for Writing requires students to "read closely" to understand the text and make logical conclusions from it.Using Google Drawing, teachers can create graphic organizers to give students a change to organize their thoughts and facts gathered from the text to prepare for writing.The standards are clear that college- and career-ready students will need to be organized when writing.Students themselves can take advantage of Google Drawing to organize complex text during their study.

Google Drawing can be used to explore geometry according to Geometrical Figures Seventh Grade Standards.Teachers can instruct students to explores the shapes on Google Drawing using flips, slides, and turns in various activities.It is also a great exposure to mathematics vocabulary words.

Common Core State Standard stress the importance of understanding of graphs, charts, diagrams.Creating flowcharts in science and math is a great way to gain information from these informational objects and make it graphically and visually appealing.

Again, Google Drawing's "Share" and "Comment" features enables collaboration among students and publishing to the Web. Google Drawing is a dynamic and outstanding design program that can urge students to create, collaborate so that they can exceed Common Core State Standards as well as develop profound technical skills for future.