Featured Teacher: Karen McMillan/McTeach

Date:  Saturday, October 9, 2010
Time:9:00am Pacific/10:00am Mountain/
11:00am Central/12:00pm Eastern
Location: Elluminate



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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):  

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Recording (video):  https://youtu.be/K-LtQrFGWUQ

Topic: Featured Teacher: Karen McMillan/McTeach

Special Guest:  Karen McMillan/McTeach

Follow-up Reading/Viewing Suggestions:

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)