#EdTechTeacherChallenge August 2020: Bitmoji Classroom, Day 15

 

Welcome to Day 15 #EdTechTeacherChallenge August 2020. You made it half way through the challenge.

How do you feel? Ready to do the hard part? Good!! 

Today, we are going to import your Classroom Template into Google Slides. Here's what you need to do:

1. Open your all your "Virtual Classroom Template" Drawings and download them as JPEGs. 
2. Open a blank Google Slide presentation.
3. Delete the default text boxes.
4. Click on "Background".
5. Click on "Choose Image".
6. Click on the blue "Browse" button under "Upload".
7. Click on the image you wish to upload. (It is probably in your "Downloads" folder.)
8. Click on "Done".
9. Add a blank slide for each of your other virtual classroom pieces and follow the directions above to insert them.

Now you are going to add your Bitmoji to each of the slides. Be sure to choose a Bitmoji that fits with the room and is not going to be distracting. For example, if you have a chair, search for a sitting Bitmoji and scale it to the chair. Do the same for a beanbag. If you want to look like you are teaching, search "Pose" and find a pose that looks the most like you teaching. Here are the three I have done for this challenge.

NOTE: If you have items in the foreground of your background image (like the desks and beanbags I have below), you will not be able to place anything behind them. You will either need to work your images so that they do not look like they are floating. If you would like to put things behind these items, you will need to go back into the Template, delete them (or save them to your computer), re-download the Template and upload it again as the background. Then you can add the deleted items by clicking Insert -> Image -> Search the Web (or upload them from your computer) to reinsert the items you deleted into slides. Crop, resize, reposition as needed. 

Tomorrow, we will add the bits and pieces that will make your virtual classroom functional. 

How have you done on the challenge so far. Comment below and share with me @mrsmathmagician on social media. Be sure to use the hashtag #EdTechTeacherChallenge.

Peace, love and happiness always!!