My second first day of First Grade!

     Today I began working in Mt. Hope Elementary School, in Mrs, Arocha's First grade classroom. Although this is an urban school, they had quite a bit of technology right there in their own classroom. They have three fairly new Mac computers, that the students are allowed to use (with the teacher's permission of course). The teacher has an older desktop computer for record keeping. Mrs. Arocha brings her laptop to and from class with her lesson plans on it, and also has her own printer. Her business card has not only her personal e-mail address on it, but also her school address, the school's website, and her link on the school's website as well. She also told me the parents of the students have her personal cell phone number and she frequently text messages with them, and they call her cell phone before trying her room phone or the office phone. All of this technology in the classroom is great! As the school year progresses, I hope I will see the students taking advantage of it more and more!