Thanks to the influence of Tony Vincent I’ve started to see the utility of adding emojis to documents and graphics. Scroll through Tony’s Twitter feed and you’ll see lots of examples of classroom uses for emojis. Here’s one recent Tweet in which Tony shared a little activity he developed for students to complete by guessing the school term based on the emojis displayed in a graphic.

💥 There is not an emoji for everything, so symbolically representing vocabulary can be a stretch—a really big thinking stretch when you’re the one developing the representation.

Here are some school related terms to decode as examples… pic.twitter.com/9IfbPzQT54

— Tony Vincent (@tonyvincent) August 20, 2018

You could build a similar type of activity in Google Documents through the use of the special characters menu. Watch my video to learn how you can easily insert emojis into your Google Docs.