SIGCUE
A Plan Presented to SIG
Board
Carl Steidley and Jim Hightower
September 15, 2000
SIGCUE Mission
 Provide a forum for
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the discussion and refinement of concepts, methods, and
policies that relate to the central issues of instructional
computing.
emphasizing the development and evaluation of
hardware, software, and systems that facilitate the
educational process, including distance education.
bringing together the viewpoints of diverse practitioners
for their mutual benefit.
SIGCUE Opportunity
 Offers practitioners and researchers the opportunity
to share and integrate mutual interests in innovative
applications, technology transfer, experimental uses
of computing, & strategic research in the
applications of computing to the educational
process.
 Promotes widespread cooperation among the
spectrum of educational programs through
interdisciplinary discussions and applications.
Recent ACM SIGCUE History and Near Future
*-Current Officers
Chair - Jim Hightower
Vice Chair - Ruth Anne Ross
Secretary/Treasurer - John Lawson
Recent ACM SIGCUE History and Near Future
*- Candidates for Office (Next election)
Past Chair - Jim Hightower
Chair - Paula Stanziani
- C. Bruce Myers
Vice Chair - Mario Guimaraes
- Patrick Michaud
Secretary/Treasurer - William Denny
- Colin Higgins
Recent ACM SIGCUE History and Near Future
Proposed New Board Offices and Candidates
Information Officer - Paolo Pumilia
Mark Guzdial
Membership Chair - Jan Carroll
Recent ACM SIGCUE History and Near Future
*- New Editor of Outlook - Holly Patterson-McNeill
* - Membership
FY2000 (6/30/00) 445
We believe that we can increase the membership with a membership
drive headed up by a newly elected Membership Chair.
*- Publications (Ruth Anne and Paul Ross Co-Editors)
SIGCUE Outlook Vol. 27 #1 January 1999.
Recent ACM SIGCUE History and Near Future
*Budget
Fund balance: $ 164,000 est (6/30/00)
*Activities
- Co-Sponsor of ITiCSE 2000 (SIGCUE founded ITiCSE with
SIGCSE in Barcelona, Spain, June 1996)
- Co-Sponsor of SAC ‘00 (Co-Sponsor since 1995)
- Recent Co-Sponsor of NECC (1999 and before)
Those actively interested in seeing SIGCUE continue
cah@cs.nott.ac.uk
dannelly@falcon.tamucc.edu
denny@mail.mcneese.edu
eiwilusz@cyf-kr.edu.pl
erkki.sutinen@cs.joensuu.fi
guzdial@cc.gatech.edu
hollyp@falcon.tamucc.edu
JHCarroll@rsu.edu
jhightower@Exchange.FULLERTON.EDU
JohnnyCarroll@rsu.edu
lml@cc.oulu.fi
Those actively interested in seeing SIGCUE continue
mcam@acm.org
mguimara@kennesaw.edu
myersb@apsu.edu
ngautier@free.umobile.edu
pecori@gpxbof.df.unibo.it
pumilia@est.it
rjimenez@fi.upm.es
sloger-rb@actx.edu
veijo.meisalo@helsinki.fi
vkp@ccs.neu.edu
New Initiatives
• Develop subgroups within the SIG emphasizing recruitment of
practitioners of computing in :
• grades K-12
• a broad spectrum of disciplines in post-secondary education
• industrial education
• 4 issues of Outlook/year (currently sporadic)
• New Editor & Editorial Board
- Enlarge innovative/interdisciplinary computing
- Electronic Newsletter? ACM Advertising?
New Initiatives
•Membership Enhancement
-SIGCUE Memberships as part of a conference registration ?
-Encourage renewing memberships and new ones!!
- Recruiting new membership chair
- Membership directory
• Enlarging view of uses of computing application areas through
more SIG interaction
- reflected in new SAC tracks & Outlook articles
New Initiatives
•SIGCUE involvement in special projects:
Possibility:
As a service to public school teachers,
create and maintain a database of
experiences with computer uses, applications, and
software for use in K-12 education.
Database Administrator Antonio Cartelli
New Initiatives
Currently Exploring Collaboration and Partnering with:
International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS)
http://www.umich.edu/~icls/proceedings/index.html
Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL)
http://sll.stanford.edu/CSCL99/
International Events
•ITiCSE 2000 in Helsinki, Finland (June, 2000)
•ITiCSE 2001 in Great Britain (University of Kent at
Canterbury)
Educational, Conference and
Membership Activities
• Tracks at ACM Symposium on Applied Computing – SAC
(yearly)
•Tracks at ACM ITiCSE (yearly)
• SIGCUE Yearly membership meeting (at SAC or ITiCSE)
• Membership flyers
• Awards
• Web Site: www.acm.org/sigcue
Collaborative Efforts
•SAC Co-sponsors
•SIGCUE Sponsorship of other conferences desired and currently
being explored
•SIGCUE Tracks need to be supported by a larger number of
SIGs
Collaborative Efforts
•International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS)
•Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Conference (CSCL)
•Mark Guzdial - guzdial@cc.gatech.edu
•Janet Kolodner - jlk@cc.gatech.edu
•Barry Fishman - fishman@umich.edu
Volunteer Recruitment
•SIGCUE Officers (5 currently 3)
•current officers
•Chair Jim Hightower
•Vice Chair Ruth Anne Ross
•Secretary/Treasurer John Lawson
•New SIGCUE Offices
•Information Officer
•Membership Officer
Volunteer Recruitment
• Recruiting new Outlook authors (have new editor)
• Recruiting new SIGCUE officers
• Recruiting Outlook editorial board
• Exploring involvement with ICLS and CSCL
Self-Assessment
•Outlook, SIGUE sponsored SAC, and ITiCSE tracks continue to
provide opportunities to share & integrate mutual interests in
applications of computing in education across a wide spectrum.
•Outlook and SIGCUE sponsored SAC and ITiCSE tracks
continue to provide opportunity for information transfer among
professionals in new computing applications
• Need to emphasize SIGCUE membership development
“Note that lack of recent election returns possibly indicates
a problem with processing and /or a lack of
membership interest (researching)”
Concerns
• Recent SIGCUE Election returns very small due (we think) to
very limited mailing (?) “anomaly”
- at next SIGCUE meeting nominate new officer slate
- promoting more election participation
• Increasing and maintaining membership & leadership
• SIG Boards view of SIGCUE as a viable special interest group
Conclusions
• SIGCUE is a “strong” special interest group with
interdisciplinary appeal across a wide spectrum of ACM
• SIGCUE currently has an adequate financial foundation
• The Outlook and SIGCUE sponsored conference sessions
provide a desired interdisciplinary technology transfer between
ACM Professionals
• SIGCUE will continue to improve and develop as a contributing
and viable special interest group to ACM