The Buncee Bus is on the way to the 39th Annual Future of Education Technology Conference in Orlando, Florida. We’re psyched to be attending FETC, getting to see all our old friends and make new ones as well who all share the same passion for student success. We’re looking forward to all the incredible sessions and getting to share some of Buncee’s newest features.
Check out all the ways you can get your Buncee on at FETC this month in Orlando, Florida!
Our Buncee Booth this year is one to remember! We’re going to be at booth #1249 on the expo floor. Besides getting to connect and grow with some of the members of the Buncee Team…we’re happy to be featuring Idea Sessions from some of our FABULOUS Buncee Ambassadors.
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The Merril’s share ways they use Buncee to make lessons interACTIVE!
Learn how Buncee allows teachers to create and customize lessons focused on historical primary sources for their classroom allowing students to work at their own pace through carefully crafted, interactive digital lessons that support natural differentiation, collaboration, and the ultimate student-centered classroom.
Buncee is such a versatile tool that makes it easy for educators to address the ISTE standards and promote student choice. See how students can use Buncees to represent their Project Based Learning in a more authentic and meaningful way. By adding in a variety of content and multimedia, Buncees can be used to foster creativity, develop critical thinking and digital citizenship skills, and engage students.
“As an instructional coach, I am always looking for ways to transform learning for my peers. Just like we strive to transform learning for students, we must do the same for all learners, including teachers! Join me to learn more about how I transform learning using tools such as Buncee, and what my goals are for the rest of the school year!”
Join Shannon McClintock Miller, teacher librarian, and Future Ready Librarian spokesperson, for a fun game of Buncee Doodle, Name That Future Ready Librarian Wedge. She will be sharing how Buncee fits into the different wedges and literacy within the FRL framework and stories of using Buncee in her library along the way. It will be a super fun session! We can’t wait to see everyone who wants to join the fun!
Come see how Stacy Johnson uses Buncee in her first-grade classroom with her students and how she uses Buncee as a teacher. Get ideas so you can jump on the Buncee bus!
Learn how to engage students and increase learning outcomes through student collaboration and peer feedback. With Buncee Boards, students have opportunities for collaboration, feedback, and reflection. Bonus: It’s FUN too!
Learn how to do assignments in Language Arts, Science, Religion and Math. You will see examples of Newsletters, reminders, and green screen backgrounds used in Andy’s Class. Andy will go over how easy it is to create and how all of the parents will love receiving them!
Pictures and images are more powerful than words. Boost your social media posts. Make your brand sparkle.
Jenn Hencken and Claire Cucchi
Mobile MegaShare- Showing What I Know…My Choice, My Voice
Explore the benefits of using Buncee in and out of your classroom. This all in one creation tool allows for even the shyest of students to experience success and build confidence by showing what they know…their way.
Shannon Miller
Lead From the Library With Creative Branding and Marketing
Room: NORTH 220D Session Number: $W144
Monday, January 28, 2019: 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Now is the time for librarians to lead, and leadership takes strategy and courage! With creative advocacy and branding, you can bring your library story to life, while leading within your school community and throughout the world like never before. In this workshop, Shannon McClintock Miller will share advocacy and branding ideas and strategies designed to empower you to share your library story, goals, and vision in memorable, effective, and valuable ways. Shannon will also share the why and the how of library advocacy and branding while taking a look at specific resources and examples to communicate your story. You will have a chance to work on your brand and advocacy efforts too!
Leticia Citizen
Open House With a Techy Twist
Room: NORTH 322 Session Number: C144
Tuesday, January 29, 2019: 2:00 PM – 2:40 PM
Adios, boring open houses! Hello, interactive, technology-enhanced activities that engage your families and leave the classroom excited. Teachers and students continue to understand the explosion called digital learning technologies. Parents, however, wander cluelessly about the effective uses of the available websites for their student. The overwhelming information suffocates our parents, who also learn by doing. Shift the responsibility to the students, and viola! Learner becomes teacher. What better way to allow a child to transform their parent’s wheel of learning? Parents learn from their child how digital technology is intertwined into their daily learning environment. Experience eight stations my parents visit during our open house.
Amy Storer
Tools to Amplify Student Voice
Room: NORTH 320H Session Number: C217
Tuesday, January 29, 2019: 4:00 PM – 4:40 PM
In this session, we will explore a few of my favorite tools that amplify student voice in and outside of the classroom. With tools such as Buncee, Flocabulary, and Flipgrid, students are able to take ownership over their learning and become a valued voice in the classroom. Join me to learn about these powerful tools.
Stacy Johnson and Kimberly Aromanda
Learn #AppSmashing With Success!
Room: SOUTH 210D Session Number: $W223
Tuesday, January 29, 2019: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
App smashing is the process of using multiple apps to create projects or complete tasks that give students a voice as well as choice. We will show you how to integrate some primary-friendly apps with Seesaw. By app smashing with Seesaw, you can provide your students with creative and inspired ways to showcase their learning and allow you to assess their understanding and skills. We will share some of our students’ creations, and you will leave with ideas that you can share with your students tomorrow!
Shannon Miller
Giving Students a Voice Through Social Media, Technology, and Opportunities!
Room: NORTH 322 Session Number: C255
Wednesday, January 30, 2019: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Now is the time for librarians to lead, and leadership takes strategy and courage! With creative advocacy and branding, you can bring your library story to life, while leading within your school community and throughout the world like never before. In this workshop, Shannon McClintock Miller will share advocacy and branding ideas and strategies designed to empower you to share your library story, goals, and vision in memorable, effective, and valuable ways. Shannon will also share the why and the how of library advocacy and branding while taking a look at specific resources and examples to communicate your story. You will have a chance to work on your brand and advocacy efforts too!
Matt Joseph
Blended Learning for Active Learners
Room: NORTH 320E Session Number: C290
Wednesday, January 30, 2019: 1:00 PM – 1:40 PM
One of the keys to academic achievement is active learning. By integrating blended and digital learning into the classroom, educators can take learning experiences to the next level and improve student performance. Blended learning is an instructional methodology. It is a teaching and learning approach that combines face-to-face classroom methods with digital created activities to deliver instruction. A classroom that nurtures creativity often results in students taking different approaches to interacting with the same curriculum. Computers don’t teach; apps don’t teach; teachers teach. It’s important to know what tools we have and what they’re capable of providing to enhance student learning. This session will focus on blended learning tools that can increase student engagement.
Tonya Forbes and Rachel Bodoin
Integrating Technology in Early Childhood Classrooms
Room: SOUTH 210D Session Number: $W268
Wednesday, January 30, 2019: 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Have you shied away from incorporating tech tools with your early childhood students? Learn how to create a technology-rich classroom in this workshop. In modern schools, early childhood classrooms can have a technology-rich atmosphere. Even your young learners can achieve success with the four C’s (Communication, Collaboration, Creativity, and Critical Thinking)! In this workshop, you will learn iPad tips and tricks and new tech tools and walk away with resources to assist the youngest learners. In an iPad, we will showcase the following tools: Dreambox, Lexia, Pebble Go, RAZ Kids, EPIC!, Buncee, Chatterpix, Sock Monkey, Teach Your Monster To Read, GSuite Apps, Codable, Toontastic, Popplet, WeVideo, Thinglink, and Canvas.
Shannon Miller
Let’s Bring Literacy to Life Through Making and Technology!
Room: NORTH 220D Session Number: C317
Wednesday, January 30, 2019: 2:00 PM – 2:40 PM
As librarians and teachers, we cultivate amazing places in our libraries and classrooms for making through makerspaces and opportunities using technology. Have you thought about how literacy, such as picture and chapter books, fit into these opportunities and makerspaces? Shannon McClintock Miller will show you how to bring literacy to life through making and with digital tools and apps in a fun, creative, and exciting session that will be filled with project ideas, wonderful books that encourage making, meaningful moments to tie in STEAM, and so much more. She will leave you inspired to bring making to your classroom and library through literacy every day.
We are looking forward to seeing you all at #FETC19!
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