
Online
classrooms
created
by
teachers
that
mimic
physical
classrooms
made
distance
learning
more
exciting
for
students.
Eunice
Lee,
a
fourth-grade
teacher
at
Montclair
Elementary
School,
used
bitmojis
in
a
virtual,
interactive
classroom
to
better
connect
with
her
students.
Bitmojis
are
cartoon
avatars
that
can
be
designed
with
the
same
characteristics
as
the
people
that
they
are
intended
to
represent.
Lee
had
been
looking
for
a
fun
way
to
interact
with
her
class.
After
seeing
other
teachers
successfully
using
bitmojis,
she
decided
to
design
an
interactive
classroom
to
serve
as
a
resource
of
links
to
educational
materials
for
her
students.
It
was
also
a
place
to
create
an
end
of
year
classroom
memory.
Lee's
virtual
classroom
resembled
her
own
physical
classroom.
Her
students
had
been
previously
introduced
to
an
online
world
with
bitmojis
while
learning
classroom
rules.
This
familiarization
made
the
transition
to
distance
learning
in
a
virtual
classroom
fairly
simple
for
her
students.
"I
thought
this
would
be
a
great
way
to
engage
my
students
and
allow
them
to
feel
more
comfortable.
II
missed
my
students
so
much
that
I
wanted
to
do
something
special
for
them.
In
preparation
for
the
"class
picture,"
I
created
a
bitmoji
for
each
student
that
when
clicked
had
a
special
message
waiting
for
them,"
Lee
said.