Thing 5: Presentation Tools

I am always looking for new and exciting ways to teach the students how to present information to their teachers and classmates, so that is why I decided to explore this thing.  I explored many of the different tools mentioned like canva.com, glogster, bunkr, prezi, and buncee.  Due to the fact that I work with elementary students, I liked Buncee the best.  I signed up for a free educational buncee account and was able to try a trial of buncee for classrooms with student accounts.  I worked with our music teacher who was creating a project for 5th grade about composers and we gave the students the option of using Buncee to complete their project.  Below is a link to my assignment Buncee.


https://www.edu.buncee.com/buncee/v2/876245/?share_key=1217e885dcc911e6b27800185179db73

I taught the 5th and 6th grade classes how to use Buncee and let them each create one on their own. Some of the 5th graders did then choose to use it for their music project, one even choose to go home and create her own Buncee account and show her family.  The student feedback I received was awesome, they loved the options that this provided.  Since this initial lesson, we (the students and I) have gone on the produce additional Buncees.  Our school is preparing for our annual Catholic School's Week celebration and the students created a Buncee to invite the community to our Catholic School's Week Opening Mass or Spaghetti dinner or they created a Buncee about why they love our school.  I hope to continue to use Buncee to be able to create digital posters in the future and share these among our school community.  If you have not tried Buncee I encourage you to give it a try.  This site is extremely user friendly for us and the young students we work with.