Prof. Zachary Jones
Zachary Jones currently teaches Elementary Spanish at Georgia State University as a Graduate Teaching Assistant. As a graduate of Southern Polytechnic State University with a degree in Computer Science and minor in Spanish, he uses technology extensively in his language clases. Further, he is currently researching various uses of technology in second language instruction, most notably, blogs. This blog, in fact, is merely the newest iteration in a series of blogs that he has used to enrich his Spanish courses. He will present a presentation in February, 2006 at the Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT) in Orlando, FL on the topic "Use of Blogs in L2 Instruction."He began his teaching career in the Dominican Republic. There he taught technology and English at an international middle and high school. After returning to the United States, he began teaching Spanish at the high school level at Habersham Central High School in the North Georgia mountains. Later he taught Elementary and Intermediate Spanish courses at Southern Polytechnic as an Adjunct Professor. Most recently, he began his graduate studies in Spanish with a concentration in Applied Linguistics and Pedagogy at Georgia State University.