When I saw that Bitmoji was one of the new Things this year I knew it had to be the first one I did. Bitmojis are one of my favorite things about SnapChat and I was curious to find out what people had been using them for in teaching. After reading a few of the blog posts about it, I've learned you can do a lot of really cool things!
I love the idea of teachers making their own Bitmoji stickers to put on student work. That got me thinking about how I could use them in the library and I think it would be fun to put them on bookmarks for students to take. Another idea would be to put them on the various signs I have around the library with usernames and passwords for databases.
I'm not sure if I'll ever have students create their own, at least not while I'm working at my current building. I love the idea, but being in an elementary school, I'm not sure how appropriate it would be to have students creating accounts for something so closely linked with SnapChat. A lot of my older students do use SnapChat, but as I tell them, that's a decision that's up to them and their parents, not me.
At least for now, I'll add my own Bitmojis to bookmarks, signs, and perhaps newsletters. I think the students would enjoy it.
For this assignment, since I already had a Bitmoji account and have used it quite a bit, I decided to try customizing my own Bitmoji on Google Drawing. Inspired by the tutorial video here, I wanted to make one with my school library system logo. This was slightly more complicated than the video made it out to be since the file I have of the logo didn't have a transparent background. After a bit of googling, I found directions on how to make the background transparent on the Gimp and managed to do it. Here is the finished product!
