In the modern classroom, it is extremely important for students to gain 21st-century skills they need to become responsible digital citizens. This means giving your students opportunities to share their work with authentic audiences and encouraging them to collaborate constructively with others. Seeing the immense opportunity of this situation, educator, tech integrator, and Buncee superstar, Michael Drezek created the Global Buncee Book. It is a wonderful opportunity for students around the globe to connect and build a narrative, together! The best news is that you and your class can be a part of it!
The Global Buncee Book is an exciting project in which classrooms around the world can engage in collaborative storytelling. Each class creates a page of the book on Buncee, continuing the story where the last class left off and adding their own creative flair. Students can use backgrounds, stickers, text, animations and more to progress the story. They can even record audio of themselves reading their page aloud!
Last year, The Global Buncee Book Vol. 1 traveled a total of 23,208 miles cover to cover, as classrooms all over the world contributed their pages. The end result was an imaginative story entitled, “Abby’s Awesome Adventure: Journey to the Hot Dog Planet”, in which an adventurous young girl named Abby and her friend, Bunceeman, journey to outer space, having out of this world adventures and making friends along the way.
This year, as part of Global Collaboration Week, you and your class will have the chance to participate in creating The Global Buncee Book Vol. 2! This year’s theme will focus on sustainability goals and will star Bunceeman in his journey on “Saving the World”. Classrooms can help Bunceeman learn how the simplest efforts can save the world by exploring https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/takeaction/ before creating a Buncee page.
Where will Bunceeman go on his wonderful journey? That is a question for you all to answer as the book comes alive!
Participating classrooms will also have the opportunity to connect during this year’s Skypeathon, November 5-6, 2019 as the final book is shared as a full story.
If you want to learn more about how you and your students can participate, check out Michael Drezek’s blog here.
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