Friday, April 24, 2020

Art Class: e-stickers

I've been using the Student Learning Space (SLS) for posting instructions and videos for my lessons. This week, I tried using the Bitmoji app to give 'stickers' to my students. In Image A, you'll see an array of students' works on a page. The students can comment on their post or others' post. As a teacher, I can also choose to post images or text. In this case, there is still a step before we post that Bitmoji picture. I have to import all my pictures from the app to Google site and from the site, I have to copy the image and paste it on students' posts. To make things more convenient, I've bookmarked the google site page. I've also realised that SLS site do not support GIF file so my images will be not animate. 

I think the students will not receive a notification when someone post a comment so I guess I will inform them to check with other means.

Scroll all the way down to see another tip that I've discovered!

*Updates* I've realised that my students cannot see the e-stickers! I'll show them my screen back in school then.

Image A

Image B
Tip number 2: To monitor my students' work, I used the Class Dojo app but some parents might not respond and I would need to text them with my mobile. I'm not sure about other devices but I'm using an Android and to text a new contact not in my current list, you have to save the new contact first before messaging them. It doesn't work like SMS where you can just key in a number and message directly. So...I used this site with Whatsapp Web and you can message a new contact directly without saving their numbers.