A Digital Holiday Lesson at School 21

At School 21 Art Professor in Residence Triada Samaras worked together with Art Teacher Raquel Ford to create a digital art lesson for the middle school students.  In Google Classroom, Ms. Ford taught these students how to use Google Drawings to create patterns on holiday mittens they created using their Chromebooks. Ms Ford is currently teaching on-line to her Paterson students.

Google Drawings is a feature of Google Drive. Ms Ford has been teaching several digital art techniques using this software during Fall 2020.  In this lesson students applied various acquired skills including drawing, creating a background, creating patterns and using symbols.  She encouraged students to create their own unique mittens for their holiday celebrations.

"Google Drawings is hosted on Google Drive where all files created with the application are saved by default." (edit) "Google Drawings allows multiple users to open and edit drawings simultaneously in real-time. It allows importing images from the computer or from the Web as well as inserting shapes, arrows, scribbles and text from predefined templates. Objects can be moved, resized and rotated. The software also allows for basic editing of images, including cropping, applying masks and adding borders" LINK 

Using a variety of digital artmaking tools in Google Drawings, students can work at home designing with color and texture even if they do not have paints, colored markers and other art materials.  

Google Drawings is also an app in Chrome.

Later Ms. Ford and her students placed the completed images in a Google Photos Album for the students to see. In the future Ms. Ford and Professor Samaras are planning an interactive Google Drawings lesson in which groups of two or three students will create an artwork together and simultaneously.

For more information see:

35 Creative Google Drawings Activities for Classes

https://ditchthattextbook.com/35-creative-google-drawings-activities-for-classes/