Google Drawings Story

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Google Drawings Story

Google Drawings tutorial for students

Student reference guide on how to navigate Google Drawing and Google Slides to create an original short story.

The video embedded is a short overview of the Google Drawing functions which will be similar to what you will be doing for this project.

Setting Up Google Slides

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Make sure you are able to log in with your Google account.

Go to Google Slides and in the lower right corner click on the plus sign to create a new presentation.

Setting Up Google Drawings

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Go to Google Drive

Select New -> More -> and Google Drawings

Insert Text

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Find and select Text Box

Add text

Draw Lines

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Find and open the Line menu

Draw a single line

Draw a Curve Line

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Find and open the Line menu

Draw a Curve line

Draw a Line With Scribble

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Find and open the Line menu

Draw a Scribble line

Create Shapes

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Find the Shapes menu

Create a basic shape

Manipulate Object

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Select an object

Change the size of the object

Change the color of the object

Manipulate Text

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Select text

Change the color of the text

Change the size of the text

Copy and Paste Objects

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Select object and copy

Paste the object

Download Drawing

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Click on File and select download and .png

Import Drawing Into Google Slides

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Open Google Slides

Select insert -> image -> click upoad from computer OR Drive

Animate Drawing

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Select on object

Right-click and select animate

Select which animation to play along with the duration of the effect

Present

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Once you have completed your story you will present it to the group