SIGHE
MICCA Higher Education Special Interest Group

What Is SIGHE?

SIGHE is the Special Interest Group for Institutes of Higher Education of MICCA. The primary focus of SIGHE is to support professionals responsible for providing teaching and learning experiences, and conducting and sharing research and policies that emphasize effective use of educational technologies that impact both preservice and inservice teachers.

The MICCA Higher Education Special Interest Group helps promote awareness of the MICCA mission, program, and schedule of activities to Maryland Institutes of Higher Education (IHE), increases participation by IHE in MICCA initiatives and shares with MICCA membership initiatives, research and resources offered through IHE.

MICCA SIGHE serves to develop materials and activities involving members of the higher education community working in educational technology, to include faculty, undergraduate and graduate students. SIGHE provides a forum for members to share research and successes, raise questions, and meet the challenge of helping other professionals use technology to enhance learning and education.

• Download our informational brochure! “ SIGHE Brochure” (pdf)
  
• Request color copies of MICCA informational brochure for dissemination by contacting dpruitt@umd.edu
  
• Interested in joining our SIGHE Committee? Would you like to serve as your institutes’ liaison? Please contact dpruitt@umd.edu.
  
• Use our Toolkit to share information about MICCA with your organization
• SIGHE Contact List

Who Are Our Members?

MICCA SIGHE members include higher education faculty teaching in graduate and undergraduate programs, undergraduate and graduate students, and technology specialists teaching and conducting research in teacher preparation and educational technology. SIGHE members are interested in preparing beginning teachers in using technology to support and enhance student learning, preparing educational technology leadership personnel, and/or providing professional development to practicing educators that will enable them to use technology effectively and appropriately to support and enhance learning in K–12 classrooms. Visit the current Higher Education Special Interest Group Committee Liaison List.

Specifically, MICCA SIGHE:

• Collects and disseminates information through publications and electronic communication networks, including the SIGHE community and SIGHE listserv
  
• Sponsors the higher education and research paper presentation strands at the annual MICCA conference.
  
• Sponsors Best Research Paper Award
  
• Sponsors a SIGHE Panel and Forum at the annual MICCA Conferenc
  
• Sponsors all or part of meetings, conferences, and workshops to promote professional development.
  
• Works to establish state standards for K-12 students, teachers, and administrators.
  
• Recommends policy and guides decision making regarding educational technology and teacher education.
  
• Organizes working groups for research, study, and writing activities to meet the needs of its membership.
  
• Serves as the teacher educators' liaison to MICCA.

Membership in the MICCA SIGHE is included free with a standard membership. Not yet a member? Join now!

Membership in MICCA SIGHE offers a great way to increase your knowledge base and connect with colleagues who are focused on a particular aspect of the dynamic field of educational technology. Membership in the MICCA SIGHE is a cost-effective investment, as it is included free with a standard MICCA membership. You may already be a member. If not, MICCA membership is $25.00 per year and includes: free entry to all MICCA-sponsored workshops, eligibility for all MICCA grants, free newsletters and MICCAZINE, invitations to all MICCA special events, including the Fall and Spring Business Meetings, networking opportunities with other professional associations with similar interests, and discounts on ISTE’s annual membership and publications.

For more information on MICCA SIGHE, contact the SIGHE Liaison at 410-531-3910 or dpruitt@umd.edu

SIGHE Toolkit

Welcome Remarks
Current SIGHE Committee
About MICCA [PPT ... PDF]
More about MICCA’s Annual Conference [PPT ... PDF]
MICCA SIGHE Brochure
Ideas of How to Share Information (below)

SIGHE Ideas of How to Share Information about MICCA

1. Place MICCA brochures out in your teacher education student services location and/or faculty/staff mailboxes
   
2. Share MICCA information (PowerPoint, brochures, SIGHE listserve and research paper presentations) at a faculty/departmental meeting.
   
3. Have a student organization/group share with their members or present at one of their organizationmeetings
   
4. Promote student interest and involvement with presenting a poster session, concurrent session, or research paper at the annual MICCA conference
   
5. Place posters related to the MICCA conference, Fall and Spring Business meeting, call for presenters, call for research papers in locations for others to see and learn more about
   
6. Share MICCA activities and events through your own courses, classes, listserve etc…
   
7. Host a MICCA workshop at your campus location
   
8. Link to the MICCA website http://www.miccaonline.org/