Lynn Marentette's Blog (56)

Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Assistive Technology, and Universal Design for Learning: Technology for the 21st Century ----

No, I haven't come up with the "theory of everything". I wrote two posts related to this topic, which can be found on my TechPsych blog:

TPACK Framework: Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Assistive Technology, and Universal Design for Learning…

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Added by Lynn Marentette on April 5, 2010 at 11:59am — No Comments

Barriers to technology integration: Hello! It's NOT always the teacher!

I recently posted about a classroom teacher's story about barriers to technology integration in her history class, a "classroom for the future" http://bit.ly/9HMf9Y From my post, you can link directly to the teacher's M.Ed. thesis, which provides a good first-person insight about the barriers she faced in her attempts to effectively integrate a rich assortment of technology in her classroom.

Here is just one the examples from the…

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Added by Lynn Marentette on March 19, 2010 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Microsoft Courier "digital journal" and iPad pre-order links- will these tools be useful in education?

More multi-touch news: Microsoft's Courier "digital journal"; pre-order iPad & download SDK http://bit.ly/c0deKh

I'll be posting my thoughts on future posts on my Interactive Multimedia Technology blog.

Added by Lynn Marentette on March 13, 2010 at 7:43am — No Comments

A few quick links: Apple iPad ad, National Educational Technology Plan Draft, Social Thinking Blog (about students on the spectrum)

Here are a few links that might be of interest.

Apple iPad ad: http://bit.ly/9XgALK

US National Educational Tech. Plan http://bit.ly/9U1vhL

Social Thinking Blog: http://bit.ly/bx17X1

Added by Lynn Marentette on March 11, 2010 at 3:49pm — No Comments

Games and Learning: Lure of the Labyrinth (link to post, video, and links)

Games and Learning: Lure of the Labyrinth, an on-line pre-algebra game for middle-schoolers: http://bit.ly/bGvWFu (plus more resources)

Added by Lynn Marentette on February 23, 2010 at 5:39pm — No Comments

Open source, cross-platform PhoneGap uses HTML & Javascript to create iPhone apps.

Open source PhoneGap lets you create iPhone & cross platform applications using HTML & JavaScript http://bit.ly/cdiOIA

I'm not sure if PhoneGap plays well with iPad.

Added by Lynn Marentette on January 30, 2010 at 11:23am — No Comments

IEEE's One Voice Video- about the potential of STEM-related careers. Share it with a young person!

IEEE's One Voice video: Accomplishments and potential of people working in tech/engineering fields. Share it with a kid! http://bit.ly/5z9Oer

I've included some great links for career exploration activities. Some are geared towards encouraging more girls to consider pursing a future in an engineering or related field.

Added by Lynn Marentette on January 24, 2010 at 3:53pm — No Comments

Classroom of the Future: Orchestrating Collaborative Spaces (Interesting book!)

Interesting Book: Classroom of the Future - Orchestrating Collaborative Spaces

Added by Lynn Marentette on January 22, 2010 at 4:00pm — No Comments

SMART Technologies: Multitouch Application Contest Announced for the SMART Table

SMART Technologies' Multitouch Application Contest Announced: http://bit.ly/6wnjoO

SMART Multitouch Application Contest Website

The contest is divided into two categories, commercial and academic. I think this would be a great project for high school tech. students! I think that to program an application for… Continue

Added by Lynn Marentette on January 20, 2010 at 4:36pm — 3 Comments

Apple iSlate, iTablet, MacBook Touch Rumors

Apple iSlate, iTablet, MacBook Touch: Will it support gesture interaction & haptic feedback? http://bit.ly/705p73

How could it play out in education?

Added by Lynn Marentette on January 1, 2010 at 9:05am — 3 Comments

Opening doors for college for students with cognitive disabilities; Higher Ed. Opportunity Act of 2008

For special educators, psychologists, & parents, from my TechPsych blog:

Opening doors for college for students with cognitive disabilities

Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008

Added by Lynn Marentette on December 29, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Information Visualization Transformed to Cultural Analytics/Visualization on a high-resolution interactive HIPerSpace wall at UCSD

Posted a really cool video & info: Cultural Analytics of Mark Rothco Paintings on an interactive 287 mega-pixel HIPerSpace Wall at UCSD.

"The explosive growth of cultural content on the web including social media since 2004 and the digitization efforts by museums, libraries, and companies since the 1990s make possible fundamentally new paradigm for… Continue

Added by Lynn Marentette on November 26, 2009 at 8:48am — No Comments

Posts about interactive multimedia, the arts, emerging technologies & education

Human Computer Interaction & Education: CHI 2010 Workshop on UI Technologies and Pedagogy

The Vodafone Symphonia: A Symphony of Phones, Via Henry Jenkins, author of "The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of… Continue

Added by Lynn Marentette on November 7, 2009 at 6:43am — No Comments

The World Is My Interface

I changed the name of my Technology Supported Human-World Interaction blog to "The World is my Interface". It reflects the direction of my thoughts about interaction and pervasive computing. The first post includes links to related blog posts, as well as links to people who are doing research in this area.

Added by Lynn Marentette on September 19, 2009 at 11:26am — No Comments

Busy Year Ahead!

The high schools I serve welcomed the students last week, and right from the start, I've been in meetings. This will be a busy, busy year, as my district has fewer psychologists and more schools. So we will do "more with less".

I was so busy last week that I did not have time to interact with a single SmartBoard- several were installed in classrooms at one of my schools.

Maybe there will be a lull?

Added by Lynn Marentette on August 29, 2009 at 6:34am — No Comments

Flight Simulator on a Microsoft Surface Table, set to 80's music

The above is a link to a recent post on my Interactive Multimedia Technology blog. The application looks fun!

Added by Lynn Marentette on August 9, 2009 at 8:40am — No Comments

Urban Screens and Media Facades

The video related to the picture below, along with a few comments and links, can be found on my recent post:

Revisiting Urban Screens: 555 Kubik....

Wouldn't this be fun to do with a school building?!

Added by Lynn Marentette on August 4, 2009 at 6:40pm — No Comments

I'm back!

It has been a very busy summer. I'm back to work, but now I have another school added to my schedule as a school psychologist. Because of the economic problems in my region, school psychology positions were not created to keep up with the addition of new schools. The good thing is that my third school is CATA: Central Academy of Technology and the Performing Arts!

I am sure this will be a busy, busy year. Although I wish I was still working part-time and taking graduate classes, I… Continue

Added by Lynn Marentette on July 23, 2009 at 4:56am — No Comments