Bitmoji Classrooms (Digital Interactive Classrooms)

Bitmoji Classroom

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    While the need for parent-teacher-student communication keeps growing day by day. Innovation to ease this communication comes out every day. Interactive Classrooms is one tool that has grown over the past year due to the pandemic situation. Google Slides and Bitmoji have been merged to create what we call Bitmoji Classroom. The whole purpose of this tool is to unify all classroom digital tools and resources for students in one place. The classroom-style you create is recommended to be a digital copy of what your classroom would look like. This will give a sense of presence in the classroom to students. Parents are also benefited from this tool. They can have access and be up to date with what is happening in their child's classroom. This tool can be used by subject or by grade level. The administration team can also create one. What makes the difference from all other interactive classrooms is the use of Bitmoji. Bitmoji is an app where you create an avatar similar to yourself. Throughout this post, we will go through the steps on how to make a Bitmoji Classroom. To be able to follow these directions easily, I would recommend that you have at least a beginner or intermediate level of use for Google Suite. 

1. Creating your Bitmoji Avatar.

To create your Bitmoji Avatar, you need a smart device such as an android or iOS device. First, you will go to your device's application store (AppStore for iOs and Play Store for Android). Then, download the app and create your Avatar with your email or with your Snapchat account. Once you are in the app, follow the icons (Body Type, hair color, eye color, eyebrow color and shape, lips, glasses, etc.) to create your avatar and try to use similar styles. Every time you want to change your avatar styles, such as clothes or hair color, you have to do it from the smart device app. 

2. Add Bitmoji Extension to your Chrome

If you are a Google Chrome user, inserting your Bitmoji will be much easier when you have Bitmoji as an extension to the Google Chrome browser. You will access the puzzle piece located at the top right corner of your Chrome browser. Click on the gear "Manage Extensions" and search for Bitmoji. Add it to your Chrome. Once you have completed adding it, log in to your Bitmoji account.  

Directions on the following video: 

3. Creating your Interactive Classroom with Google Slides.

    Here is where your creativity should have no limit. The classroom will be designed with online pictures. For my classroom, I used a resource by "thatelemtaryteacher" in Teachers Pay Teachers. Click here to access the resource. It is not necessary to buy this. You can do it from scratch. You will insert images from the web piece by piece and putting them together to match how your classroom will look like. Here is a video from Alissa Lifestyle Vlog that takes us step by step on doing our classroom from scratch. 

4. Adding your Bitmoji to your Classroom 

Once you have the Bitmoji extension in your browser. The process is easy. You will open the extension, write the opposing message you want your Bitmoji to make, and drag it into your classroom. Then, do as follows using the Bitmoji extension.

5. Making your Classroom Interactive

    Here is where we will address the whole purpose of the Digital Interactive Classroom. We will be adding the links to the resources, homework, books, and digital tools that you want your kids to do over the time you are creating the Bitmiji Classroom. In addition, you will add the links to the recorded lesson to the songs or videos that you will be using over that week. Here is a short clip on how to do it. 

6. Publishing and Sharing your Bitmoji Classroom

    When you are done with your interactive classroom and are ready o share it with your students, you do not recommend that you add your students to your slide. This option might lead students to move what you have already created and edit other things you do not want them to mess up with. Instead, you will share with them a link or embed the link to your weekly emails to parents or to the school's webpage, whatever way you use to communicate with your students. For example, in your Google Slide, you will go to the "File" option and scroll down to "Publish to Web" this will generate a link. This link will open your slide, and the links will be available for them. This link generated in the "Publish to Web" option will be the one you will share with students.  Click here to see an example. See the video to follow these directions. 

Bitmoji Classroom is a helpful tool to synthesize the information you want to deliver to students. 

If you followed these steps. Tell us about your experience in a comment. Did you find it useful?