Academic Degrees and Certifications:

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Professional Experience:

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Teaching:

Spring 2110
EDMG 4403: Teaching Social Studies in Middle Grades Education

Course Description: This course is a segment of an 11-hour block designed to develop appropriate teaching strategies in social studies. Students apply learning theories, teaching techniques, questioning strategies, instructional materials, and assessment procedures for middle grades learners. Students will develop and implement plans for teaching social studies in an interdisciplinary team setting. In an extensive field experience, students will teach middle grades learners.

Fall 2009
EDUC 2110: Investigating Critical & Contemporary Issues in Education
Three Sections – (Hybrid online format)

Course Description: This course engages candidates in observations, interactions, and analyses of critical and contemporary educational issues. Candidates will investigate issues influencing the social and political contexts of educational settings in Georgia and the United States. Candidates will actively examine the teaching profession from multiple vantage points both within and outside the school. Against this backdrop, candidates will reflect on and interpret the meaning of education and schooling in a diverse culture and examine the moral and ethical responsibilities of teaching in a democracy. Includes the use of current technologies which are directly related to effective teaching and 15 hours of observation and participation in a childhood, middle grades, secondary or P-12 education.

Summer 2009
EDMS 6115: Knowledge of All Learners (Fully online)

The first online course developed and offered by KSU for Georgia OnMyLine Consortium.

Course Description: This course will investigate the basic theories of learning, development, and communication that create productive classroom instruction for all learners. Particular attention will be paid to understanding how differences in ethnicity, class, gender, religion, language, and exceptionality affect the work of teachers and learners in modern society. The characteristics, legal requirements, and teacher responsibilities for students with disabilities will also be articulated in this class. This course includes a field experience in which candidates observe and work (mentoring, tutoring, interviewing, etc.) with adolescents one-on-one, focusing on development, needs, exceptionalities, diversity, and learning styles.

EDUC 6100L: Practicum I

Course Description: An experiential, service learning project in which candidates work (mentoring, tutoring, interviewing, etc.) with adolescents or young adults, one-on-one, focusing on development, needs, exceptionalities, diversity, and learning styles. Requires proof of liability insurance. Candidates must have a satisfactory practicum to continue in the MAT program without remediation.

EDUC 2110: Investigating Critical & Contemporary Issues in Education
One Section– (Hybrid online format)

Spring 2009
EDUC 2110: Investigating Critical & Contemporary Issues in Education
Three Sections – (Team taught one section)

Fall 2008
EDUC 2110: Investigating Critical & Contemporary Issues in Education
Two Sections

Summer 2004
ECE 8814: Inquiry: Essentials of Technology

Course Description: Through the exploration of both traditional and advanced educational technologies,
candidates will develop technological skills and strategies of implementation to build an integrated plan of utilizing technology for improving classroom teaching and student learning.

Classes taught at KSU Educational Technology Center:

I taught technology courses to in-service and pre-service teachers at the Educational Technology Training Center (ETTC). Guest lecturer in many KSU undergraduate and graduate classes.

• Designed and developed the web design certificated program
• Introduction to Web Design
• Introduction to Macromedia Dreamweaver
• Intermediate Macromedia Dreamweaver
• Intermediate FrontPage
• Macromedia Fireworks for Web Design
• Photoshop for Web Design
• Advanced Web Page Design with Javascript
• Macromedia Flash
• Windows 2000 Web Server
• Apache Web Server on Linux
• Photoshop Plan, Produce, Present Powerful Presentations with Hyperstudio
• Web Page Construction Using Microsoft Front Page 2000
• Who wants to be a webmaster?
• The Power of the Palm

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Service:

Committee Memberships:

• Quality Enhancement Plan Coordinator for SMGE Department
• Member of Secondary and Middle Grades Department Faculty Council (Aug. 2009 - present)
• Search Committee for BCOE Director of Online Learning (Sept. 2009)
• Search Committee for BCOE Technology Support Service Person (Aug. 2009)
• Chair of the Information Technology Advisory Committee (ITAC) 2006-07
• PTEU Steering Committee Member
• Chair BCOE Web Site Committee
• PTEU Technology Committee
• BCOE Student Information System Committee
• Planning committee for the SINO-American international conference
• State ETTC On-Line Registration System Committee
• North Cobb High School Business and Technology advisory committee
• Houghton Mifflin Web Content Advisory Board – Boston , MA
• Georgia Technology Conference Website Committee
• In charge of international student teaching for the Bagwell College of Education (2005 - 2007).

Webmaster for the Bagwell College of Education, Services, Outreach and Partnerships, the Office of Field Experiences and the former SINO-American Consortium. In addition, provide tech support for the Bagwell College of Education.

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Scholarship:

Scholarship is primarily focused on on-line delivery of content. Professionally, I have worked with the State of Georgia on state wide data collection and built the State of Georgia report card web sites. These sites report the test scores of all Georgia public schools. In addition, I am involved with a project with the Board of Regents and the Professional Standards Commission to find diverse and technology-rich student teacher placements.

Publications:

Wright, J. M. (2003). Developing instructional technology centers for basic education in Ghana: A qualitative study. In A. Adebayo, & J. Tufuor (Eds.), Reflection on Phase IV Instructional Technology Training for Basic Education (chapter). Custom Publishing, University of Cape Coast, Ghana.

Conferences:

• Presented at Georgia Educational Technology Conference in Georgia International Convention Center in College Park, Georgia, November, 2006
• Presented at Georgia Educational Technology Conference in Georgia International Convention Center in College Park, Georgia, November, 2005
• Presented at Georgia Educational Technology Conference in Macon, Georgia, November, 2004
• Presented at Georgia Educational Technology Conference in Macon, Georgia, November, 2004
• Presented at Georgia Educational Technology Conference in Macon, Georgia, February, 2004
• Attended the Distance Learning Administrator Conference in Jekyl Island, Georgia, June 2002
• Presented at Georgia Educational Technology Conference in Macon, Georgia, February, 2003
• Attended the Technology Leadership Conference in Athens, Georgia, October 2002
• Attended the SINO-American Education Consortium international conference, October 2002
• Presented at Georgia Educational Technology Conference in Macon, Georgia, February, 1999

Area of Expertise and Skills:

• Teaching (face-to-face and online)
• Curriculum develop and instructional design
• Online course development and training
• Electronic data collection and analysis
• Website design and development
• Multimedia design and development (Video and 2D graphics)
• Technology integration and data system development
• Technology training and support
• Wired and wireless computer networking

International Work:

• 2008 - Set up student teaching in Costa Rica
• 2008 - Set up student teaching in Mexico City
• 2006 - Set up and supervise student teaching in Belize
• 2005 - Set up and supervise student teaching in China Student teaching supervising
• 2004 - Attended the Sino-American Educational Consortium conference in Wuhan, China. 
• 2002 - Teacher technology training in Ghana, West Africa with the Georgia Board of Regents and University of Cape Coast, Ghana. Secured and rebuilt 17 laptop computers and sent them to Ghana to support this project. Hosted two of the Cape Coast faculty at KSU. One received a Fullbright scholarship to San Joes State University.

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updated: Feb. 2010