“Motivating, Energetic, Applicable, Innovative, Fun…” are just a few adjectives participants have used to describe Willyn’s workshops, presentations, and classes.
Please email to discuss having her speak at your school, district, or conference.
Mesa State College ISED580 2 graduate credits open enrollment, ongoing
This course is designed for secondary teachers in all districts, even those that ban cell phones. The purpose of this course is to empower educators who are ready to move from fighting student cell phones to using cell phone technologies to enhance teaching and learning. This course will introduce teachers to many free, basic cell phone tools that support and enhance research-based instructional strategies. A five-step plan for integrating cells beginning personally, moving to homework, and eventually into the classroom will be shared. Policy, permissions, privacy, cell phone etiquette, parents, and safety will also be covered. Teachers will develop actual lesson plans or homework assignments, apply them in their setting, and evaluate the resulting teaching and learning.
Conferences, Workshops, and Webinars!
The 5-Step Plan to Move from Banning to Embracing Cells in Education
94% of Americans under age 45 have a personal learning device that could greatly enrich the way teachers teach and students learn. Unfortunately, many schools and districts ban student-owned learning learning devices such as cell phones. In this session we'll reveal a sensible and progressive 5-step plan that will enable all stakeholders (parents, teachers, administrators, and students) to embrace these powerful learning tools and discover how doing so can enrich student learning and strengthen the home-school connection.
Technology in Education Conference, Copper Mountain, CO Upcoming June 21, 2011
Colorado Council of the International Reading Association, Denver February 3, 2011
Global Ed Conference Webinar Nov 17, 2010
Virtual Tech Forum-Nov 17, 2010
Tech Forum - New York (October 22, 2010)
International Society of Technology Educators - Denver Colorado (June 29, 2010)
October 22, 2010-Feberal Program Symposium, Denver, Colorado, Presenter via Skype
“Service Learning, the Key to Alternative Education”
“You Write What You Read”, workshop and booksigning
Taking a journey through the variety of Willyn’s published works and how each period was inspired by what she was reading will show how we can take our students’ reading interests and turn them into writing worthy of publication. See how technology can empower educators to provide real audiences for student work and the difference it makes when we empower students to take their reading into writing! An interactive workshop resulting in lessons and inspiration.
Colorado Council of the International Reading Association, Denver (February 3, 2010)
Baby, the Poodle Cow Dog
Storytime and Writer’s Workshop
Motivate your students to write with an interactive storytime featuring Willyn Webb and Baby, the Poodle Cow Dog. Students will be enthralled with the powerpoint photos and illustrations from the book on the big screen while Willyn in full cowgirl garb reads the story that teaches a valuable lesson, motivating children to dream, strive to achieve, and courageously face adversity. Through the story students witness the real-life accomplishment of another child and her pet and are literally invited to create their own story. Meeting Baby and getting his paw print autograph is a fun culmination to the message that one can succeed, no matter whether they look the part, feel the part, or are the “right” gender or breed. All this excitement is shown to get kids writing about the people, pets, and events in their own lives.
January 31, 2011 St. Paul's Catholic School
December 12, 2011 Hotchkiss k-8
2010
July 23-24-Marzano Research Laboratory Tech Advisory Team
Support research-based instructional strategies that you are already using with cell phones. In this session you will gain a wealth of lesson ideas to support the 9 strategies in the classic, "Classroom Instruction that Works" by Marzano, Pickering, & Pollock, all using FREE cell phone technologies. The audience will use cell phone technologies to determine the strategies they're most interested in exploring.
International Society of Technology Educators - Denver Colorado (June 29, 2010)
March 4-Loma Elementary School “Cuddle Up and Read”
Story time, writer’s workshop, book signing
June 18-Fellowship of Christian Cowboys Rodeo Bible Camp
Keynote Speaker, “Texting and Praying”
Talk Shows
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Teaching Generation Text on The Brian Lehrer Show!
Brian Lehrer show on 93.9 FM and and 820 AM. The Brian Lehrer show features interviews with local, national, and international newsmakers, authors, and politicians combined with listener phone calls.
On the show we discussed the benefits of empowering students with the freedom to learn with the digital tools they own and love and addressed the importance of going from banning to embracing the power of student-owned technology. Listen to the show below to hear why we think it is important to help students break free from being prisoners of past in a school system designed to prepare students for success in the industrial age.
We hope after you listen, you will leave a comment here.
LIVE! is an opportunity to gather with other members of the community in real time events, complete with audio, chat, desktop sharing, and even video. Willyn Webb and Lisa Nielsen will join co-hosts Peggy George, Kim Caise, and Lrana Costantini to empower educators with cell phone technologies sure to enhance teaching and learning.
A simple and progressive 5 Step Plan to integrate cell phones starting today!
A quick review of Marzano’s 9 research based effective strategies and how they can be supported and enhanced through free cell phone tools.
How to keep the movement going…
November 13, 2010
Previous Speaking Experiences – Baby, the Poodle Cow Dog
2009 October-New Emerson Elementary School Story time, writer’s workshop
June-Climbing Tree Children’s Museum
2008 Mesa County Public Library One Book One Community
Children’s Book Choice and Multi-Library Tour
Cedaredge Elementary School, “Baby, the Poodle Cowdog”
Lincoln Elementary School, “Baby, the Poodle Cowdog”
December-Sugar Plum Festival, Speaker, book signing
2007 July-Montrose Children’s Day, Storytime, book signing
Mesa State College ISED580 2 graduate credits open enrollment, ongoing
