Check out my “Quick Bitmoji Tutorial” on my YouTube Channel “Teaching History Her Way”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duelvsgzc8s&t=2s

I swear I wasn’t going to jump on the Bitmoji Classroom train… but I did.  We could all use a little fun these days, and you can’t deny that these Bitmoji Classrooms are cute. At the end of the 2019-2020 school year I sent a cut-out Bitmoji to my “lunch bunch” so we could eat together over the summer.  My 8th grade lunch bunch got a kick out of mini-Bitmoji me!  I also teach one block of 5th graders, and 5th graders love all things cute and fun, so Bitmoji Classrooms fit the bill.  Yes, you can use a Bitmoji Classroom as a vehicle for giving kids their assignments; however, the real reason I made a Bitmoji classroom is because I can see value in it for SEL and for assessment.  Here’s how:

Bitmoji Classroom & SEL

Many students won’t have lockers to decorate this year.  For some of us, we won’t be seeing our students in-person at all (and I don’t like that thought, but we have).  The Bitmoji Classroom can serve as a getting to know you and can help you get a read on students’ feelings.  Start with yourself and make your classroom personal.  Mine is primarily pink because I love pink!  I also put in a light saber because Star Wars is one of my favorites (I should also have put in a Central Perk mug!).  Right down to the way my Bitmoji is dressed tells the viewer all about me and who I am.  Your students can create a Bitmoji room, too.  Have them decorate it however they’d like and explain the objects they chose to the rest of the class.  The Bitmoji they choose can and should reflect their mood.  Make all the Bitmoji rooms a part of a class slide show so that students can get to know one another.  Every once in awhile, ask students to change their Bitmoji  or to redecorate to reflect their mood.

Bitmoji Classroom & Assessment

Did you just finish a unit on Ancient Greek civilization?  Have your students build a room for a Greek citizen.  In Google Slides they can label the objects they chose and say why they put them in the room- either by typing or recording their voices.  Did you just talk about Revolutionary War Continental Army Encampments?  Have students build one in a Google slide.  Their Bitmoji can take people on a “tour” of the room.  They can even link images to videos to help explain concepts if they’re doing this as a project and not an assessment.   These are just two creative ways to use Bitmoji rooms for assessments.

How do you envision using these in your class if you choose to jump on the Bitmoji Classroom train?