Here is a list of presentations/keynotes/workshops I can offer. Please e-mail me for more information or to discuss a personalized presentation. Here’s an evaluation of one of my workshops. Enjoy!

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KEYNOTES

There is Such a Thing as A Free Lunch - Free and Easy Ways to Begin Educating Innovatively with Cell Phones or Laptops

Keynote: In this fast-paced and interactive presentation Lisa Nielsen shares that teaching our digital native students in engaging ways may in fact be easier and less costly than you may think. In this lively presentation, she'll display, discuss, and even demonstrate numerous free and simple ways every teacher can begin educating innovatively- starting now. Audience members will leave this presentation knowing exactly how to begin transforming the way they teach and their students learn.

Free and Easy Ways to Educate Innovatively with Google

Keynote: In this fast-paced and interactive presentation Lisa Nielsen shares that teaching our digital native students in engaging ways may in fact be easier and less costly than you may think. In this lively presentation, she'll display, discuss, and even demonstrate numerous free and simple ways every teacher can begin using Google to begin educating innovatively - starting now. The Google Teacher Academy is a FREE professional development experience designed to help K-12 educators get the most from innovative technologies. Each Academy is an intensive, one-day event where participants get hands-on experience with Google's free products and other technologies, learn about innovative instructional strategies, receive resources to share with colleagues, and immerse themselves in an innovative corporate environment. Upon completion, Academy participants become Google Certified Teachers who share what they learn with other K-12 educators in their local region.

Innovative and FREE Strategies to Support English Language Learners in Becoming Information Consumers and Producers 

Keynote: Discover how to unlock the language barrier and support all students in reading, understanding and communicating in multiple languages with some fluency. The world is changing. This workshop introduces innovative educators to a variety of resources available to support students in understanding and communicating with basic fluency in their non-native language, for free, and without Rosetta Stone. Upon completion of this workshop participants will have concrete and innovative ways to support speakers of other languages in CONSUMING and PRODUCING content.

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Our participants left the conference feeling motivated and ready to try their new found skills. Thank you for making me look good!

Les Cohn
Director, Nassau TRACT Teacher Center

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WORKSHOPS

Free and Easy Ways to Educate Innovatively

This workshop provides a hands-on opportunity for participants to learn how to begin educating innovatively with free and simple tools. Despite what educators may have been led to believe, there are many free and powerful tools available that require no purchase, no training and nothing to download. Participants will learn how to begin educating innovatively with free programs that will enhance reading, writing, arithmetic, and more, using tools like student response systems, Twitter, Voki, Google SMS, and Chacha. As part of the class participants will create at least one lesson they can begin using to engage learners. Lessons will be placed in a bank available to all class members. Upon completion of this class students will have several lessons containing concrete, free, and simple ways they can begin transforming the way they teach and their students learn.

Create Your Own Social Learning Network to Keep Students (and Educators) Engaged All Year Long

Whether it's Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter, our students are using social networking tools to communicate, collaborate, and connect in ways never before possible. In this workshop, participants learn how to tap into the number one passion of adolescents...being social. Participants learn how to keep their students engaged in the world they love with the tools they love and at the same time foster the ability to communicate, collaborate, and connect in new ways that will enrich the learning experience for all. In this hands-on workshop, participants won't just learn "about" social networks. Lisa Nielsen, creator of two popular social learning networks along with Dana Lawitt teacher and author of the top-rated article, “How I Kept My Students Engaged All Summer Long with Social Networking," will work with educators to "create and launch" their own learning network that they can begin using with students or teachers by the end of the workshop.

Launching a Student Empowerment and Tech Support Team

Learn how to launch a student tech-support team designed to provide a cost-effective, student-powered solution to the technical-support challenge facing schools while improving students' 21st century educational and career opportunities with a hands-on, standards-based, information-technology-support program.

Educate Innovatively with Cell Phones Even in Schools that Ban Them

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, iPods, and iTouches. In this workshop, participants learn to embrace these powerful learning tools and discover how they can enrich student learning by doing so. Participants also learn how to use cell phones for student-response polling or pop quizzes (no need to invest in costly hardware or software), to convert currency, translate language, define vocabulary, and calculate as well as use Google Voice to capture oral presentations and improve speaking skills.

8 Ways To Use A School Wiki to Increase Communication, Collaboration, and Enrich Instruction

Wikis are a great tool to help a school enrich instruction, and increase communication and collaboration among staff. They are also free (for educators using wikispaces) and provide unlimited storage for digital materials including video, screencasts, presentations, pdfs, etc. In this workshop participants will be introduced to 8 ways to launch and use a school wiki to support school goals in a variety of ways including 1) Decrease Disruption of Instructional Time with Digital Daily Announcements 2) Conduct More Efficient and Effective Team Meetings and Planning 3) Collaborate On Important Documents Like School Comprehensive Education Plans 4) Enhance School Professional Development Using a Wiki 5) Share and Collaborate On Curriculum Maps 6) Save Trees /Save Time and Unclutterize Your Room or Office by Posting School Resources 7) Know Where Everyone Is When Schedules/Programs Are Posted 8) Serve As A Portal for All Your Lessons.

Helping Students Develop Personal Learning Networks to Extend and Enrich Learning

Personal Learning Networks provide individuals with access to learners, leaders and experts around the world and bring together communities, resources and information impossible to access solely from within school walls. In this workshop, participants will discover how they and their students can begin building personal learning networks specific to the learner's needs, thereby extending relevant learning connections to like-interested people around the globe. Participants will leave this workshop ready to begin using blogging, RSS, and social networks with their students to extend student learning, collaboration, engagement, and motivation.

Wide, Wide, World of Web 2.0 for Educators

The Wide, Wide, World of Web 2.0 for educators is a cutting-edge course that introduces participants to innovative, two-dimensional websites. Participants of this course will be introduced to the exciting World of Web 2.0, where users collaborate in real time to create authentic teaching and learning experiences that transcend traditional boundaries. Participants will discover how 21st century tools such as Google Docs and Spreadsheets, Wikis, and Blogs can be used to impact student learning, skill acquisition, teacher collaboration, and school-wide motivation.

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UNCONFERENCE SESSIONS

I enjoy doing sessions that are based upon audience participation and questions in a more unplanned and relaxed, interactive atmosphere. It’s a chance to ask the questions that are most important to those in attendance and for me to show what’s most relevant. These sessions can be loosely defined by general topics or wide open. Groups of 10 - 20 work best for these types of discussions.