The how-to’s on building these online environments are piling up: There are free templates on TeachersPayTeachers and tutorials on YouTube. WeAreTeachers recently posted a collection of Bitmoji classroom examples gathered from its Facebook groups, along with a tutorial. Principals are getting in on the action, too, with a flood of posts about their virtual offices.
But their exclamation points and joyful pronouncements make it clear that teachers are just plain having fun designing them. Teachers rave about how they can make a virtual space feel a little more like a homey classroom, and how their different icons and sections are handy space organizers. It’s not hard to find teachers on social media saying they’re “hooked,” “addicted,” or “obsessed” with creating their Bitmoji classrooms. Students can move through the spaces virtually, clicking on a bookshelf image to get a reading assignment, for instance, or on a whiteboard to follow a link to read a science document. Using the Bitmoji app to create their avatars, and other tools like Google or Canva to build the classroom backdrop, they’re making welcoming spaces, complete with colorful rugs and posters, that can serve as a cozy home base for their classes. In thousands of posts on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, teachers are sharing the classrooms they’ve built. Since so many teachers are planning to “return” only to online classrooms in the fall, they’re building these colorful virtual environments for their students featuring avatar versions of themselves. If social media posts are any indication, Bitmoji classrooms are becoming a teacher obsession.
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