Creative Ed Tech
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Templates
  • Game Shows
  • Listicles
  • Trainings

My "force myself to write and be creative" Blog

Sticky Notes & Candy Wrappers from Google Drawing

4/24/2017

1 Comment

 
Recently my district had our Spring Professional Development day. Myself and our TOSA team were tasked with much of the planning and organizing of this event. Even though this is a big task, it is one which we really love doing. Everything from organizing sessions to setting up balloons were part of our duty. This post is about one of the small parts of this day which I thought may be useful to other educators. The basic idea is to create your own your sticky notes and candy wrappers. 

During our day (and in fact its one of our overarching goals) we wanted to “push our brand”. Our brand is #rusdproud and our focus is to promote and celebrate all the incredible things happening in and around Rocklin Unified. For this particular day, we also were showing a new way for us to push this brand; that being our ROCK Talks. These are TED Talk style videos which are highlights of staff members in our district. Instead of TED we chose ROCK which stands for Reflections, Out of the Box, Connections, and Kudos. I hopefully will write more about these videos and the progress of this in the near future. For now you can find our YouTube playlist here.

Now back to this post and about candy and sticky notes. 

We wanted to have sticky notes to go hand in hand with our KUDOS which is where we wanted everyone to pause for a moment, think about who helped them on their journey in education and to give thanks. Instead of just passing out sticky notes, we wanted to use this opportunity to brand our #rusdproud as well as our ROCK Talk message. These sticky notes were created in Google Drawing, then we downloaded the image, uploaded it to VistaPrint and ordered bundle of them. Here is the link to Google Drawing file. Feel free to make a copy, and then add your shapes, images and colors. 

Below you can see the file uploaded to VistaPrint and the finished product. 
Picture
Picture
To wrap up the day, we wanted to leave everyone with a little treat as well as a reminder of theme. So we thought… "what does everyone need a little at the end of the day...CHOCOLATE!" 
Picture
But instead of just the regular basket of goodies, I took an idea from my wife where she helped my daughter's campaign to run for high school government. She created candy wrappers (again in Google Drawing) to go over the existing little Hershey miniatures. Unlike using a service like VistaPrint we did this all at home. This process was a few steps:
1) Create the wrappers in Google Drawing
2) Copy and paste this image into a Google Doc. Take Note: I had to use the EDIT - WEB CLIPBOARD feature in order to copy all of the items from the image. Then in the Google Doc I used the Web Clipboard to paste them. (here is the link to the document which you can copy) 
3) In order to print them and maximize the number of wrappers per page, we copied the image multiple times which you can see here

If you would like to see my district candy wrapper and then make a copy to try it on your own use this link

Lastly, below you can some screen shots of these wrapper and doc files. 

Good luck and please reach out if you have any questions
Picture
Picture

1 Comment
Felicia
5/4/2017 02:15:56 pm

I LOVE this episode . I am a FAN & a listener all in one. I just made my sticky note and loved the example and size template you gave us. Thank you both for doing what you do.
I like to check this stuff out!
with joy,
Felicia

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    RSS Feed

    Recent Posts

    Libraries and "What I'm Reading" Template​

    Tough Talk... Political Conversations in the Classroom
    ​

    Goodbye Padlet

    #ArmMeWith
    ​

    UPDATE: The New Tab I Open In Chrome Is...
    ​
    Orbits

    Twitter Hashtags for Education

    Top Five Non Education Podcast Episodes of 2017

    5 Ideas For Your Home Page

    ​
    The Importance of Taking Notes

    8 podcast episodes you should check out

    ​Blocking
    ​
    Waiting for the Tidal Wave


    Be a power user when editing your photos

    Thanks Smartphone

    Episode V: The Classroom Strikes Back

    Is it too late to apologize to my senior English teacher?

    ​Want to make a movie? Have you heard of PowerPoint?

    ​
    Make Your Own Memes

    My 100th Blog Post

    What Is The Internet?

    Bingo for the Classroom


    Bring Star Wars Into Any Classroom

    Sticky Notes & Candy Wrappers from Google Drawing

    Top 15 Google April Fool's pranks

    ​
    CUE 2017 Reflections

    ​​
    Visual Primary Sources

    Twitter is like.... 

    My Top 10 Chrome Extensions

    ​Share Your Stickers

    I'm Not Really The Best Co-Worker


    So, You Want To Start A Podcast?

    What Does Your New Tab Do?

    My favorite Google Docs sharing request

    Build Your Own Green Screen Kits

    Need Music and Sounds for your next Project?

    ​What's In Your Bag?

    3 Tips for Teaching With Images

    ​6 Degrees of Wikipedia

    Candy Quiz!
    ​

    Am I The Only One Who Didn't Know About "Alt Codes"?

    Have you heard of Fiverr yet?

    4 Fake Headline Generators

    Hour of Code: Check... Now What?

    To Scan or Not Scan... That is the Question!
    ​
    #createwith
    chromebooks


    How little classrooms have changed

    Tips for having student listen to audio clips

    "I Finally Got Twitter!".

    YouTube Tools You Maybe Haven't Thought Of

    Ed Tech Cartoons

    9 Tools for Making Quick Videos

    ​
    Google Innovator Update

    Wish Me Luck!


    Agendas Using Google Slides

    Yes, I Used To Collect Comic Books

    So long Summer!

    On A Midnight Plane From Georgia

    History Dinner Party

    My Year By The Numbers
    ​

    12 Things Students Should Never Do on Social Media

    What's In A Name?

    I'm The Map!

    Historical Images in Lego

    Sharing Podcasts

    Ken Robinson is going to Check This Out!

    Code Monkey
    ​

    8 Student Blogs to Check Out
    ​

    Watering Rocks

    A "Bittersweet" lesson on copyright

    "Don’t Copy That Floppy" Software Piracy

    Fun & Games with Google Maps

    Bring Star Wars Into Any Classroom

    Fact vs Fiction

    CUE 16 Reflections

    Where, How and Why to find good copyright free images

    7 Reasons To Start Using Google Photos


    "School of Rock" & Project Based Learning

    Learn About Search

    More Ideas For Using Padlet

    Fictional Twitter Profiles

    Blogging... Who, What, When, Where, Why
    ​
    Newsletters


    Ed Camp 123 Reflections

    NASA's Apollo photos online​

    Creative Ways to use Tag Clouds​

    Virtual Reality: Apps, Ideas & Resources

    George Lucas Likes Ice Cream

    Top 6 Star Wars Parody Songs

    More Twitter Stuff - Visual Twitter Tools

    ​Sticky Notes to help understand Twitter





    ​
    Categories

    All
    App Smashing
    Blogging
    Collaboration
    CUE
    Digital-citizenship
    Digital Storytelling
    Flickr
    Google
    Graphic Organizers
    Green Screen
    Lang Arts
    Newsletter
    Podcasting
    Professional Development
    Project Based Learning
    Science
    Social Studies
    Space
    Star Wars
    TCM Resources
    Twitter
    Virtual Reality

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Templates
  • Game Shows
  • Listicles
  • Trainings