About Mr. Webber
Read more at these Q&As:
Mark Webber on jeadigitalmedia.org
Podcasting on The Magnet Tribune
This LISD-created video features Mr. Webber after he received the Tech Savvy Teacher award.
- Q&A on jeadigitalmedia.org (Classroom)
- Q&A on taje.org
Mark Webber on jeadigitalmedia.org
Podcasting on The Magnet Tribune
This LISD-created video features Mr. Webber after he received the Tech Savvy Teacher award.
Mr. Webber's segment starts at 1:40.
============================== Mark Webber, a founding faculty member at Vidal M. Treviño, retired on May 30, 2019. He founded and taught the print journalism/online media program for 26 years. He also taught creative writing for 3 years.
He taught 40 years, all of it as a classroom teacher. Students in the print journalism program staff and produce the print and online editions of the state- and nationally recognized The Magnet Tribune newspaper. Creative writing students staff and produce the nationally recognized Rumination Creative Writing Magazine. Webber was a Fellow at the American Society of News Editors Reynolds Institute in June 2009, at Arizona State University and participated in the Online Media Workshop in Austin, sponsored by the state's two scholastic journalism organizations, in summer 2010. During summer 2016 he became an Adobe Certified Associate in Photoshop, and has also participated several massive open online courses offered by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin, the latest being "Listen up! How to launch and grow a hit podcast." He received his bachelors and master’s degrees at Texas A&I University (now A&M-Kingsville). He is certified to teach journalism, English Literature, technology education, English as a Second Language, health and physical education, and speech, and has certifications to teach grades 1-8 and 6-12. Webber has many years of daily newspaper experience, and for a little more than 19 years (1996 to 2015) was a part-time news and copy editor and Spanish-to-English translator at the Laredo Morning Times. He retired from the newspaper company in late 2015. Previously, Webber worked full-time as a reporter and copy editor at the then-Laredo Times and Laredo News in the late 1970s through the end of 1980. He was also an adjunct instructor in Communication and faculty adviser of The Bridge student newspaper at Texas A&M International University from 2004-2009. |
Mr. Webber is interviewed by a student in the broadcasting class in the first-ever Who's Who in Laredo program, in 2015.
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