Emuel Aldridge

(706) 549-7007 [email protected]

Education Ed.D Adult Education, University of Georgia, 2003. (Minor in Instructional Technology)

M.A. Geography, University of Georgia. 1985 Concentration in Central American Geography B.A. Sociology, University of Georgia, Cum Laude 1976 Employment Lecturer: New Media Institute, University of Georgia (Aug. 2011- Present) New Media Production: Teach undergraduate students how to acquire and implement multiple forms of media into interactive environments such as games, educational exercises, and websites. Rich Media: Teach advanced topics such as IOS app development to undergraduate students. NMI Capstone: Teach project-based capstone course in which each students joins a team that conceives and completes an advanced semester-long project for an external client.

Manage departmental webserver. Duties include security, account creation, implementation of new features to support student projects and departmental website. Ongoing exploration and integration of new technologies into curriculum. Adjunct Instructor: New Media Institute, University of Georgia (2006- May-2011) Educational Consulting (1995-2011) Educational Research and Outreach; Grant Evaluation; Instructional design; Development of interactive educational materials in both English and Spanish. Assistant to Georgia Director of Curriculum for Agricultural Education (2001-2004) Duties included: preparation and dissemination of instructional materials statewide, planning and implementing teacher workshops, creating and evaluating educational software, maintaining and updating a Windows webserver, and database development. Athens Area Technical Institute (1999-2000) Instructional designer for a project that developed internet-based training for the Department of Family and Children Services (DFCS). Assisted faculty members in the development of on-line instruction. College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia (1998-1999) Recruited and taught middle school teachers for summer technology workshop. Taught principles of instructional design, multimedia, and web development to graduate students. Worked with faculty members and staff to develop and enhance skills related to implementation of educational technology.

Employment College of Education, University of Georgia (1994-1998) Worked as part of team that designed and developed the first COE website. Developed computer-based instructional modules for faculty.

Publications New Media Workbook: an online publication that is used by all NMI instructors as the principle instructional resource for Production Media, in both the classroom and online. Have also developed, and am continuing to develop, several new lessons for our Rich Media course.

Community Work Active founding member of the Normaltown Neighborhood Network, a neighborhood organization in Athens. Software HTML and HTML Editors; CSS, PHP/MYSQL/Javascript; IOS Swift and Xcode; Skills Facebook Open Graph; Photoshop; HTML5, M.S.Etc. Web Server Management: Windows/Macintosh/Linux/Unix. Foreign Language Fluent in Spanish.