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 2008, San Antonio
Information about the 2008 conference is now available. Information about submitting proposals can be found here. Proposal submissions will be accepted from September 5 through October 3, 2007. Info about submitting proposals to our SIG will follow soon.
Upcoming Handheld/Mobile Computing Conferences
Towards a Philosophy of Telecommunications Convergence (September 27-29, 2007), Budapest, Hungary.
http://www.socialscience.t-mobile.hu/call_en.htm
Handheld Learning 2007 (October 10–12, 2007), London, UK.
http://www.handheldlearning2007.com/
mLearn 2007 (October 16–19, 2007), Melbourne, Australia.
http://www.mlearn2007.org/
The First International M-Libraries Conference, (November 13, 2007), Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
for info see http://mlearning.noe-kaleidoscope.org/events/month-2007-11-01
If you would like 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.
SIGHC members, tell us where you are and add yourself to the SIGHC frappr map!
SIGHC Newsletters:
*Vol. 2, No. 5, August 2007 (PDF, 154 KB; members only)
*Vol. 2, No. 4, June 2007 (PDF, 87 KB; open access)
*Vol. 2, No. 3, April 2007 (PDF, 802 KB; open access)
*Vol. 2, No. 2, March 2007 (PDF, 256 KB; open access)
*Vol. 2, No. 1, February 2007 (PDF, 605 KB; open access)
*Vol. 1, No. 6, December 2006 (PDF, 103 KB; open access)
*Vol. 1, No. 5, September 2006 (PDF, 306 KB; open access)
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