Step 1: Open a new blank Google Slides
Then delete the text boxes first.Step 2: Control click on the white slide
Step 3: Click “google image search” under the search engine:
Type in “floor" or "floor and ceiling background” into the search engine. Choose the backdrop you’d like and then click “insert” and press done.
Step 4: Insert images of furniture and decorations
By clicking insert > image > search the web from the toolbar on the top of your Google Slides screen. Or by clicking on the insert image icon and selecting web.
Step 5: Search for images
Such as whiteboards, wall hangings, bookshelves, computer desks, etc. Anything you’d want in your digital classroom! Select the image you want and click “insert.”
Tip: When you’re searching for items, include the word “transparent” after the item you’re searching so that your image won’t have a white background.
To insert these images below into my Bitmoji classroom, I searched “ transparent whiteboard,” “transparent bookshelves,” and “transparent corkboard” in the search engine.
Step 6: Insert your bitmoji by adding the bitmoji extension here
Then click the bitmoji icon at the top of your Google Slides page and search the kind of image (pose or wave or school are some examples)) you’d like of your bitmoji. Once you’ve selected the one you’d like, follow the directions on screen.
Step 7: Personalize your classroom by writing a message on the whiteboard.
Click insert > text box and fit it around your whiteboard. Type in your message.
Step 8: Continue to personalize by adding your favorite read aloud books to the shelves.
You will need to search the book covers in the regular google image search in a new tab, then control click and select copy image and then paste them into the Bitmoji classroom.
Step 9: Make your Bitmoji classroom interactive by adding links to items around your room.
For example, if you want to link a book on your shelf to a Youtube read aloud, you would first find that read aloud on YouTube and copy the URL. Then, click on the image that you would like to link (like a book on the shelf) > click on the hyperlink icon > paste link into the box. Tada! Now when viewers click on the book, they will be brought to the read aloud. I did this to the three books in my room and the laptop links to the Tech Hub.Step 10: Once your Bitmoji classroom is beautified and linked up, you share it with students (and families) via you webpage if you want or via Seesaw or Google Classroom.
Select File> download>pdf this will give you a static (un-editable) copy of your room that you can post anywhere you like.
It may take time to create your perfect Bitmoji classroom, but it is certain to pay off in the long run when students are excited to see what’s new in your classroom each week. Below is mine CHS faculty and staff you have access to it and can feel free to duplicate.
