Dr. James Welsh is the Director of the Florida Center for Instructional Technology. James has taught classroom technology integration to undergraduate and graduate students at the University of South Florida and professional development courses to educators through USF’s iTeach Professional Learning.
James is the project leader for the Technology Integration Matrix Evaluation tools and has worked on many local, state, and national education projects at FCIT over the past eighteen years. He co-founded the Tampa Theatre Film Camp, a digital filmmaking summer camp, and USF’s cybersecurity summer camps for teachers and students. His research interests include evaluation of educational technology, critical media literacy, student creation of multimedia texts, and the role of genre in student composition.
James has published in Teacher Education Quarterly, Journal of Reading Education, Qualitative Studies in Education, International Journal of Multicultural Education, and The International Journal of Learning, as well as book chapters and articles addressing technology and student composition. James has presented at numerous regional and national conferences, including the International Literacy Association (ILA) the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the College Reading Association (CRA), the American Reading Forum (ARF), the Association of Teacher Educators (ATE), International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), and the Literacy Research Association (LRA).