I really enjoyed the video "pay attention". I will definately use all of those things mentioned in order to reach my students. I honestly had never thought of allowing my students to use their personal technologies in order to teach them. The principal of Provo High School- AWESOME! I am so happy to hear that we have administrators willing to do anything to communicate with our students in any way possible- even through texting! Again, AWESOME! I will definately incorporate anything I can into my classroom in order to help my students have FUN learning!

During this semester, I hope to be able to use these different tools to help me communicate with my collegues and my students' caretakers. I also hope to be able to incorporate these tools into my lesson plans by either posting them on my webpage using Google Docs or using it in the classroom (if I teach older grades). If I post it on a webpage, I would make it available for my students' parents to be able to access if their student is absent. There are many ways that I can incorporate these different tools in my classroom, and I will.

My ideal classroom. In my ideal classroom, I am teaching first graders. In one corner, there is 'the reading corner' where my students can pick any book they want and read it by themselves, or we can read it as a class. In the next corner (clockwise), there is 'the math corner' where my students can use different objects to help them do math (ie. cubes, shapes, straws, beads, flash cards. etc.). In the third corner, there is 'the science corner' where we, as a class, can each participate in scientific projects (like growing plants or watching a class pet grow up), learn about different things in our world, and my students can 'check up on' our continuing projects. In the last corner, there is 'the world corner' where my students can learn about different parts of our world, their cultures, and different places that hold historical value. In the middle of the classroom, all of my students' desks are arranged in a circle, so that every student feels included in everything we do. My desk is just outside of the circle, facing my students. On the wall right next to the door, there are cubby holes for their assignments (turning in and going out). Right next to the cubby holes, there are hooks for their coats and backpacks. On the wall, just above the hooks and cubby holes, there are pictures of each and every child with their name card next to their picture. All along the top of the classroom walls, there is one shape for every day that we've been in school. On the wall above the reading corner, there is the 'class rules'. On the walls of 'the world corner' there are pictures of different monuments and countries around the world. At the top of the wall in this corner, our country's flag will be posted. In the same corner, on the walls and on the floor, there are maps that my students can touch and draw on (with something erasable, like wax pencils, or dry erase markers). On the walls of the science corner, there are pictures of different skeletons and the growing process of different species. On the floor of 'the science corner' there is a plastic replica of a human skeleton for my students to be able to touch and learn with. In the math corner, on the walls, there are times tables posted; and on the floor, there are cubby holes that are labeled for each math aid there is. And last, but definately not the least, there is 'our daily spot' (in the middle of the circle), where we will say the pledge of allegence, point out what day of the week it is, the current date, the season, and the weather outside. This is also where we will conduct our weekly show and tell and our birthday songs.