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Creating an Interactive Google Drawing

  • Have students create awesome interactive images
  • Use Google Drawings, and place shapes on the image that are hyperlinked to Google Docs
  • Final Result: Collaboration, creativity, and research

Basic Instructions:
  1. Open a Google Drawing.
  2. Insert an image that you would like to be interactive.
  3. Resize the drawing by grabbing the bottom right corner of the drawing and dragging it up to be the same size of the picture.
  4. Insert a shape and place it over a portion of the picture.
  5. Change the shape and line color to be transparent.
  6. Select the shape and a hyperlink.
    1. The link can be a website, doc, presentation, image, etc.
  7. Continue adding shapes and hyperlinking them to the information
  8. Share

Video Tutorial- (I will link this later tonight or tomorrow.)

Variations:
You could let the students create the content and then have them add it to the drawing.
Each student could create a drawing with active links to be shared with you.