Handheld Computing SIG
SIGHC is the interest group that is an advocate for handheld computing in education worldwide, and promotes meaningful integration of handheld computers in teaching and learning. Members of SIGHC include teachers, administrators, technology coordinators, university faculty and researchers, and representatives from profit and non-profit entities. We hope you will get involved and join us. Please direct any inquiries to SIGHC’s Chair, Mark van ‘t Hooft (mvanthoo@kent.edu).
The goal of the SIG is to foster a community of stakeholders (teacher practitioners, technology coordinators and other K–12 tech support staff, educational researchers, teacher educators, industry leaders, government representatives) in order to support the use of handheld computers in education and promote best practices in the area of mobile and wireless computing integration across subject areas and grade levels.
Learn more about your SIGHC officers.
Goals and Objectives
SIGHC’s activities are specifically aimed at:
Development of appropriate handheld tools (hardware and software and related curriculum for teaching and learning). Initially this will consist of providing hardware and software developers with recommendations, strategies, and ideas as created and refined by SIG members or subcommittees. In addition, the SIG will aid its members in curriculum development by providing access to expertise in the area of handheld integration in education, e.g. through synchronous and asynchronous communication channels, and workshops or presentations at conferences like NECC. Avenues for actual tool development by the SIG may be considered once the SIG is up and running and has a solid membership base with the necessary expertise to do so;
- Support for handheld integration in different types of learning environments. Support will include access to SIG members via synchronous and asynchronous communication channels, and access to expertise in the area of handheld integration in education;
- Dissemination of best practices and best practices research in the area of handheld computing. This includes providing awards for best practices in teaching and research;
Creation of effective research tools and methodologies;
Examination of issues related to technology integration including equity, the digital divide, Special Needs students, and English-as-a-Second-Language user issues.
NECC 2009, Washington, DC
Information about the 2009 conference is available here. SIGHC will host its annual business meeting, an exciting forum (more details forthcoming), and a sponsored session.
Upcoming Handheld/Mobile Computing Conferences
2009 International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing (CMC 2009), Kunming, Yunnan, China, January 6-9, 2009.
http://www.world-research-institutes.org/conferences/CMC/2009/
International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning (eL&mL 2009), Cancun, Mexico, February 1-6, 2009.
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/eL&mL09.html
Mobile Learning Conference 2009, Washington DC, February 16-17, 2009
http://www.mobilelearning09.org/
HotMobile 2009, Santa Cruz, CA, February 23-24, 2009
http://www.hotmobile.org/2009/
Paper submissions due by October 13, 2008.
IADIS International Conference Mobile Learning 2009, Barcelona, Spain, February 26-28, 2009
http://www.mlearning-conf.org/
Proposal submissions due by October 20, 2008.
4th International Conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning (IMCL2009), Amman, Jordan, April 22-24, 2009.
http://www.imcl-conference.org/
Paper submissions due by October 15, 2008.
Handheld Learning 2009, London, UK, October 5-7, 2009.
http://handheldlearning2009.com
mLearn 2009, Orlando, FL, October 26-28, 2009
http://www.mlearn2009.org
Proposals due by February 15, 2009.
If you would like to have a mobile computing conference listed here, please send your information to SIGHC’s Chair, Mark van ‘t Hooft (mvanthoo@kent.edu).
SIGHC Resources
Please contribute your knowledge and expertise about mobile devices to our SIGHC wiki.
Want to network with other SIGHC members? Then join our Ning group!
SIGHC members, tell us where you are and add yourself to the SIGHC frappr map!
SIGHC Newsletters:
*Vol. 3, No. 8, December 2008 (PDF, 210 KB)
*Vol. 3, No. 7, October 2008 (PDF, 166 KB)
*Vol. 3, No. 6, September 2008 (PDF, 648 KB)
*Vol. 3, No. 5, June 2008 (PDF, 211 KB)
*Vol. 3, No. 4, May 2008 (PDF, 359 KB)
*Vol. 3, No. 3, April 2008 (PDF, 315 KB)
*Vol. 3, No. 2, March 2008 (PDF, 146 KB)
*Vol. 3, No. 1, February 2008 (PDF, 1.1 MB)
*Vol. 2, No. 5, August 2007 (PDF, 154 KB)
*Vol. 2, No. 4, June 2007 (PDF, 87 KB)
*Vol. 2, No. 3, April 2007 (PDF, 802 KB)
*Vol. 2, No. 2, March 2007 (PDF, 256 KB)
*Vol. 2, No. 1, February 2007 (PDF, 605 KB)
*Vol. 1, No. 6, December 2006 (PDF, 103 KB)
*Vol. 1, No. 5, September 2006 (PDF, 306 KB)
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