We titled this, “The Intersecting Goals of Digital Citizenship.” Google Drawing supports images with varying opacity levels, so I added a family photo and a favorite photo from Glacier National Park in 2011 with 80% transparency to the image collage in the background, along with flag icons in the sidebars for countries I’ve lived in or traveled in, besides the USA. I decided it would be good to include these elements in my Twitter header, along with a graphic I co-created this past year with our school Digital Citizenship Team co-chair, Dr. I’m also taking these themes into the conference keynotes and breakout sessions I’ll be sharing this summer and in the 2017-18 school year. I’ve decided to have a three part theme for our school technology department next year: Since the files are saved in the cloud, there are no worries about saving and preserving original image files. Google Drawing documents, on the other hand, can be edited and shared using any computer (including Chromebooks) since it’s entirely browser-based. Otherwise, if you just have the exported / flattened image, it’s much harder to make tweaks and adjustments to the collage if needed. If you switch computers or format/erase your hard drive, you need to make sure to save the ORIGINAL image files which contain all the different layers. Those are programs which must be downloaded to your local computer hard drive, and each have different file formats for saving original images with separate layers for different image collage elements.
#How to make a background picture in google drawings software
In the past I’ve used open source/free or free Mac software programs to make image collages like Gimp, SeaShore, and Acorn. YouTube channel art images should be 2560 x 1440 pixels. Twitter header images should have a recommended size of 1500 x 500 pixels. Then from the popup menu select PIXELS and enter your desired canvas size for the image collage. In a Google Drawing document, from the FILE menu choose PAGE SETUP and select CUSTOM. Thanks to Casey Bell’s ( February 2016 post, “Create a Google Classroom Custom Header with Google Drawings,” I learned it’s possible to specify exact pixel sizes for Google Drawing documents. “ Website Header (June 2017)” ( CC BY 2.0) by Wesley Fryer
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