Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

EdMedia SIGs | E-Learn SIGs | SITE SIGs | Community SIGs | SITE Interactive SIGs

EdMedia SIGs

• Emerging Technologies for Learning and Teaching

  Started on June 22, 2015, 1:59 a.m. | Members: 484 | Chairs:

• First Test

  Started on Oct. 16, 2017, 11:40 p.m. | Members: 16 | Chairs:

• Learning Design

  Started on June 22, 2015, 1:59 a.m. | Members: 389 | Chairs: Gayle Davidson-Shivers , Wilfred W.F. Lau and Ellen Taricani

E-Learn SIGs

• ADD: Assessing, Designing, and Developing E-Learning

  The SIG will promote activities for future E-Learn conferences, including suggestions for invited speakers and symposia. It provides a marketplace for joint research projects and offers publications opportunities in form of special issues and edited volumes.

  Started on Oct. 22, 2013, 9:38 p.m. | Members: 89 | Chairs: Curtis Ho and Stefanie Panke

• Designing, Developing, and Assessing E-Learning

  Started on | Members: 189 | Chairs:

• E-Learning in Developing Countries (Opportunities, Trends, Challenges, and Success Stories)

  Started on Oct. 22, 2013, 9:41 p.m. | Members: 45 | Chairs: Jaime Sanchez and Ke Zhang

• E-Learning Trends and Innovations (social learning, mobile, augmented etc.)

  Started on Oct. 22, 2013, 9:45 p.m. | Members: 133 | Chairs: Curt Bonk , Christopher Devers , Charlie Miller and Cynthia Sistek-Chandler

• Sustainable Learning Technologies

  SLT solutions for the use of technologies and tools linked to educational applications. The technologies include developing SMART generic thinking tools for identifying, planning, organizing, and implementing projects, and evaluating their overall sustainable impact.

  Started on Dec. 6, 2017, 7:35 p.m. | Members: 8 | Chairs: Madhumita Bhattacharya and Steven Coombs

SITE SIGs

• Assessment/E-Folios

  Started on Feb. 5, 2015, 12:23 a.m. | Members: 430 | Chairs:

• Computational Thinking

  Started on March 28, 2013, 10:14 p.m. | Members: 511 | Chairs: Jongpil Cheon and Karen Jin
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  Creativity, Design Thinking, & Innovation

  Started on Feb. 4, 2015, 9:25 p.m. | Members: 560 | Chairs: William Cain and Danah Henriksen

• Critical Theory in Teaching and Technology

  Started on June 9, 2021, 9:21 p.m. | Members: 14 | Chairs: Marie Heath and Rohit Mehta

• Digital Fabrication

  Started on June 2, 2020, 2:22 p.m. | Members: 0 | Chairs:

• Digital Storytelling/Video

  Started on Feb. 5, 2015, 10 p.m. | Members: 503 | Chairs: Larry Ferguson and Linda Robinson

• Distance/Flexible Education

  Join our Distance/Flexible Education professional community.

  Started on April 2, 2014, 1:47 a.m. | Members: 840 | Chairs: Chelsea Chandler and Tami Seifert

• Early Childhood Education

  Special Interest Group for those interested in the intersection of technology with Early Childhood Education. Concerns include technology integration from a developmental perspective, as well as ways to better use technology to improve and enhance teacher education.

  Started on March 25, 2014, 5:17 a.m. | Members: 292 | Chairs: Donna Karno
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  English Education

  What happens when technology and the English Language Arts meet?

  Started on Nov. 30, 2012, 2 a.m. | Members: 278 | Chairs:

• Equity & Social Justice

  Equity and social justice SIG enables educators, researchers, educational reform leaders, and learning technology innovators to share information about promising and proven digital equity strategies and resources.

  Started on March 27, 2013, 6:27 p.m. | Members: 383 | Chairs: Shernette Dunn

• Faculty Development

  Started on March 3, 2015, 9:41 p.m. | Members: 594 | Chairs: Lara Kassab , Tami Seifert and Lorrie Webb

• Games & Simulations

  Started on Feb. 5, 2015, 7:01 p.m. | Members: 604 | Chairs: Kenneth Luterbach and Rick Marlatt
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  Geospatial Education

  The Why's of Where....

  Started on Feb. 7, 2013, 1:55 p.m. | Members: 111 | Chairs: Curby Alexander , Thomas Hammond and Melda N. Yildiz

• Information Literacy Education, Library & Media Science

  Started on Feb. 5, 2015, 8:01 p.m. | Members: 279 | Chairs: Ann Musgrove

• Instructional Design

  Started on Oct. 10, 2019, 11:31 p.m. | Members: 83 | Chairs: Betul Czerkawski and Nari Kim

• International Perspectives

  The global perspective

  Started on March 21, 2012, 6:10 p.m. | Members: 374 | Chairs: Agnes Chigona
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  K-12

  Focused on research pertaining to K-12 online and blended education in all of its various formats.

  Started on March 30, 2013, 3:22 p.m. | Members: 535 | Chairs: Qijie Cai

• Maker

  Started on Feb. 5, 2015, 10 p.m. | Members: 235 | Chairs: Jason Harron

• Mathematics Education

  Are you a philomath?

  Started on Nov. 30, 2012, 1:58 a.m. | Members: 334 | Chairs: Angie Hodge

• Mobile Learning

  Started on Feb. 6, 2015, 1:01 a.m. | Members: 517 | Chairs: Kristine Kim

• New Possibilities with Information Technologies

  Started on Feb. 5, 2015, 10:01 p.m. | Members: 493 | Chairs: Jana Willis

• Research & Evaluation

  Started on Sept. 18, 2014, 5:48 p.m. | Members: 552 | Chairs: Anuradha Gungadeen and Rashmi Khazanchi

• Science Education

  Science Education SIG

  Started on April 18, 2014, 12:21 p.m. | Members: 342 | Chairs: Nathan Dolenc and Joshua Ellis

• SITE Information Technology Council

  The SITE Information Technology Council is made up of 15 different SIGs related to information technology in teacher education.

  Started on Nov. 13, 2014, 3:19 p.m. | Members: 13 | Chairs:

• SITE Teacher Education Council

  Started on Oct. 10, 2012, 7:27 p.m. | Members: 57 | Chairs: Lee Langub

• Social Media

  Started on April 25, 2017, 3:19 p.m. | Members: 172 | Chairs: Tonia A. Dousay and Catharyn Shelton

• Social Studies Education

  Taking the long view...

  Started on April 7, 2014, 4:37 p.m. | Members: 231 | Chairs: Prof Emmanuel Adu

• Special Education

  Started on Oct. 25, 2017, 4:55 p.m. | Members: 106 | Chairs: Andrea Parrish

• Special Education & Assistive Technologies

  Assistive Technology SIG is very motivated to increase the knowledge and use of assistive technology for special populations.

  Started on March 20, 2014, 9:02 a.m. | Members: 263 | Chairs: Katherine Cooper and Cory McKnight

• STEM Innovation

  Started on April 30, 2019, 5:32 p.m. | Members: 220 | Chairs: Heejung An and Amanda Thomas
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  Teaching & Learning with Emerging Technologies

  TLET is THE SIG for discussion and research on how people teach and learn using new and innovative technologies.

  Started on Feb. 5, 2015, 6:01 p.m. | Members: 1285 | Chairs: Amanda Hurlbut and Parviz Safadel
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  Technological, Pedagogical And Content Knowledge

  Discussions about the theory and promotion of TPACK (Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge)

  Started on March 8, 2014, 2:17 p.m. | Members: 989 | Chairs: Rebecca Blankenship , Yi Jin and Daniel Mourlam

• Technology Leadership

  Started on Feb. 5, 2015, 10:02 p.m. | Members: 619 | Chairs: Tammy Estes Fry

• Technology Policy and Practice

  Started on Oct. 10, 2019, 11:28 p.m. | Members: 33 | Chairs:

• Universal Design for Learning

  UDL helps educators design productive and accessible learning environments for ALL students. Come and share your ideas on UDL.

  Started on Aug. 13, 2014, 12:17 p.m. | Members: 358 | Chairs: Susie Gronseth and Aashna Khurana

• Workforce Education

  Started on Feb. 5, 2015, 10:02 p.m. | Members: 223 | Chairs: Paul-Arthur Pierre-Louis

• X Realities and Learning

  Started on Oct. 10, 2019, 11:32 p.m. | Members: 28 | Chairs: Todd Cherner and Michael Searson

Community SIGs

• Emerging Scholar Stream

  Emerging Scholar Stream at EDMEDIA

  Started on Feb. 15, 2012, 1:53 a.m. | Members: 19 | Chairs: Tel Amiel , Heather Hughes and Mai Neo

• Information Literacy Education

  We encourage librarians and other teachers in both K-12 and higher education to join our SIG and share ideas on how information literacy is being used in your institutions with your students.

  Started on Dec. 5, 2012, 2:49 p.m. | Members: 20 | Chairs: Marilyn Ochoa

• Literacy and Technology

  We are mostly literacy educators who use technology!

  Started on Jan. 22, 2015, 11:41 p.m. | Members: 13 | Chairs: Glenn DeVoogd

• Microformats

  Putting data right in the web

  Started on Dec. 1, 2011, 6:14 p.m. | Members: 5 | Chairs:

• MOOCs

  This is a SIG to discuss MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses). If you are interested in this new trend in education, feel free to join in.

  Started on June 21, 2013, 5:20 p.m. | Members: 14 | Chairs: Rebecca J. Hogue

• Simon M. Yalams

  DVD

  Started on June 22, 2013, 9:11 a.m. | Members: 1 | Chairs: Simon M. Yalams
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  The random high-five group

  Join today and start spreading high-fives!

  Started on June 25, 2013, 6:49 p.m. | Members: 7 | Chairs: David Krismer

SITE Interactive SIGs

• Decolonized, Inclusive, and Empowering: The role of Educational Technology:

  Started on Aug. 20, 2021, 2:17 p.m. | Members: 3 | Chairs: Garron Hillaire , Jeremy Price , Dr Jorge Reyna , Stephanie Smith Budhai and Junhe Yang

• Developing the Profession: Growing in Leadership, Academia, and Teaching Practice

  Started on Aug. 20, 2021, 2:32 p.m. | Members: 1 | Chairs: Nancy Chapko , Zachary Haney , Rashmi Khazanchi , jo latorre and John Lee

• Frontier Technologies: XR, AI, Makerspace, and More

  Started on Aug. 20, 2021, 2:35 p.m. | Members: 1 | Chairs: Laurie O. Campbell , Jon Clausen and Richard Lamb

• Social-emotional Impact of Technology

  Started on Aug. 20, 2021, 2:23 p.m. | Members: 2 | Chairs: Vivian Intatano , Lara Kassab , Rachel Terlop and My Tran

• The Future of Online Teaching in Teacher Education

  Started on Aug. 20, 2021, 2:20 p.m. | Members: 4 | Chairs: Gerald Ardito , Jiahang Li , Cecil R Short , Anne Tapp and Amy Vujaklija