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.
SIGHC Member Survey
The full results are now published on the SIGHC wiki and will also be discussed at the SIGHC business meeting at NECC. Winners of a SIGHC t-shirt are April Flood, Brenda McCombs, and Dave Ramage. Please get in touch with Mark van ' t Hooft (mvanthoo@kent.edu) to make arrangements to get your prize.
NECC 2008, San Antonio
Information about the 2008 conference is now available. Please consider attending the
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SIGHC forum, to be held on Monday, June 30, 2008 (10 am - noon), room HGCC 217D
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SIGHC business meeting, to be held on Monday, June 30, 2008 (4:45-6:15 pm), room HGCC 101B
This year, the NECC program search offers a section called "SIG Picks." When sorting on SIGHC picks, you will find 19 sessions, including concurrent sessions, workshops, and SIGHC-sponsored events. SIGHC picks can be found here.
Upcoming Handheld/Mobile Computing Conferences
Serious Games on the Move 2008, (June 23-24, 2008), Cambridge, UK.
http://www.inspire.anglia.ac.uk/serious/index.html
Mobile Learning: Education on Demand, (July 16, 2008), Frenchay Campus,UWE (University of the West of England), UK.
http://www.netskills.ac.uk/content/products/workshops/event/uwe-jul08-mlearn1-r1/index.html
Mid Atlantic Handheld and Emerging Technologies Conference (MAHETC 2008), (July 24-25, 2008), Salisbury, MD.
http://www.seaford.k12.de.us/mahc/
10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (Mobile HCI), (Sept. 2-5, 2008), Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
http://mobilehci2008.telin.nl/
UbiComp 2008: Tenth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, (September 21-24, 2008), COEX, Seoul, South Korea.
http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2008
Twelfth Annual IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC), (Sept. 28-Oct. 1 2008), Pittsburgh, PA,
http://iswc.net/
mLearn 2008, (October 7-10, 2008), University of Wolverhampton at Ironbridge, Shropshire, UK.
http://www.mlearn2008.org/
Handheld Learning 2008, (October 13-15, 2008), London, UK.
http://www.handheldlearning2008.com
ICCE Conference on CUMTEL and DIGITEL (as part of the 16th ICCE Conference), (October 27-31, 2008), Taipei, Taiwan.
http://www.apsce.net/icce2008/cfp_c4.html
6th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM2008) (November 24-26, 2008), Linz, Austria.
http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2008/index.html
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.
SIGHC members, tell us where you are and add yourself to the SIGHC frappr map!
SIGHC Newsletters:
*Vol. 3, No. 5, June 2008 (PDF, 211KB)
*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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