Featured Teacher: Karen McMillan/McTeach 10/09/2010
![]() Date: Saturday, October 9, 2010 Time: 9:00am Pacific/10:00am Mountain/ 11:00am Central/12:00pm Eastern Location: Elluminate Recording (full): https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2010-10-09.0741.M.ACE02B5F35AA7E7975F015AAC6F794.vcr&sid=2008350 Tiny URL for recording: http://tinyurl.com/FeaturedTeacher-McTeach Recording (chat): http://wiki.classroom20.com/CR20LIVE+OCT92010 Recording (audio): http://www.humyo.com/FQxmsff/CLASSROOM%202.0%20LIVE%20mcteach.32K.mp3?a=OkK3wJbWjCk Recording (video): http://blip.tv/file/4226132 Topic: Featured Teacher: Karen McMillan/McTeach Special Guest: Karen McMillan/McTeach Follow-up Reading/Viewing Suggestions: Gl.am Link for 10/09/2010: http://gl.am/KGXe9 http://www.notesfrommcteach.com/ (Blog for McTeach: Notes from McTeach) http://mcmillan.wordpress.com/ (Ms McMillan's Blog) http://www.plurk.com/McTeach (McTeach on Plurk) http://twitter.com/mcteach (McTeach on Twitter) http://mcteachdaybyday.blogspot.com/ (McTeach: Picturing my Year Day by Day) http://middlequotes.blogspot.com/ (McTeach: Quotes from Middle School) http://connectingteachers.wikispaces.com/ (McTeach: Connecting Teachers) http://thoughtsofmcteach.blogspot.com/ (Thoughts of McTeach: Just a Thought-Can one positive thought per day change a life?) http://ctkseventhgrade.blogspot.com/ (McTeach Classroom Blog: Seventh Grade Blog) http://www.notesfrommcteach.com/2010/09/flip-cameras-in-classroom.html (Notes from McTeach: Filp Cameras in the Classroom) http://sites.google.com/site/usingappsatschool/ (McTeach: Using Google Apps Wiki) http://www.notesfrommcteach.com/2010/09/learning-to-blog-using-paper.html (Notes from McTeach: Learning to Blog Using Paper) http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcteach/sets/72157625004568191/ (Photos of paper blogs created by students) http://mcmillan.wordpress.com/2010/09/11/the-homework-dropbox/ (McTeach: The Homework Dropbox) https://sites.google.com/site/gtigeoteachers/ (Geo Teachers Institute: Includes ideas for classroom and Starter Kits for Google Earth, Maps, and Sketchup)http://wiki.ctkschool.org/users/amassi/weblog/8386a/Google_Apps_For_Education.html (Last year’s 7th graders’ Google Apps Screencasts) http://www.only2clicks.com/pages/mcmillan/353283 (McTeach: class website portal example where you can access selected sites with only 2 clicks) http://guest.portaportal.com/ctkteachers (CTK Teachers Portaportal site with links to interactive websites for students gr. K-8 organized by grade, subject and teacher resources) http://guest.portaportal.com/pgeorge (Peggy George's Portaportal site with links to other teacher portaportals) http://quizlet.com (free flash cards & study games website covering every possible subject. Play educational games, memorize vocabulary & study online) http://moourl.com/ (URL shortening service) http://tiny.cc/ (Paste any long web address into the box and click tiny to get a shorter URL) http://www.fablevision.com/mappingtheworldbyheart/ (Mapping the World by Heart: Fablevision-An Innovative Approach to Learning Geography) http://bookwhisperer.com/ (Book Whisperer: Author Donalyn Miller)http://www.amazon.com/Book-Whisperer-Awakening-Inner-Reader/dp/0470372273/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1286642480&sr=8-1 (Book Whisperer on Amazon) http://community.discoveryeducation.com/ (Discovery Education Network) http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/kmcmillan01_cccoe/ (Den STAR Karen McMillan: Discovery Education Blog) http://thinkfinity.org/ (Thinkfinity-free teacher network and resources) http://community.thinkfinity.org/index.jspa (Thinkfinity Community) http://www.scribd.com/doc/36946185/The-Art-and-Aspirations-of-a-Commenter (Handout Karen uses with Paper Blogs activity) http://www.scribd.com/doc/36945822/2010-7th-Grade-Blogging-Rules (Seventh Grade Blogging Rules Handout) http://www.thedaringlibrarian.com/2010/05/parts-reposted-from-library-tech-geek.html (Geek Tribe information from Gwyneth Jones) http://whatelse.pbworks.com/Blog%C2%A0Comment%C2%A0Template (Sheri Edwards: Blog commenting tips for students) http://www.notesfrommcteach.com/2010/03/more-txt-ptry.html (Idea for teaching poetry using texting language) http://online.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Text_Message_Abbreviations (one site that explains some common text message abbreviations) http://www.netlingo.com/acronyms.php (another site with "netlingo" abbreviations) http://www.readinglogs.com/ (Reading Logs: free site that includes learning tools for electronic reading logs, vocabulary card creators and listen & spell practice system) http://www.webenglishteacher.com/text/r&jtext.txt (Romeo and Juliet in text messaging) http://theedublogger.com/tag/student-blogging-challenge/ (Edublogger Student Blogging Challenge) http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcteach/ (Karen McMillan's photos on Flickr) https://docs.google.com/previewtemplate?id=0ApNpelyXqldUdGpCWWh5RTRkM01zYTZSMHI5UHhtNVE&mode=public (Homework Dropbox Template created by McTeach to collect student blog assignments) https://docs.google.com/previewtemplate?id=0ApNpelyXqldUdE9nY2wyZElJTE94eXQ0OWdFZUtVY3c&mode=public (Reading Log Entry Form for students to enter completed reading) http://live.classroom20.com/archive-and-resources.html (Classroom 2.0 LIVE Archives and Resources for all recordings and links)http://groups.diigo.com/group/classroom-20-live (Classroom 2.0 LIVE Diigo Group-please join and share your links with everyone) Add Comment |


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