I have about 80 percent compliance. For students who don't have a digital picture, I bring a digital camera to class and take their picture.

With more space, students wouldn't have to crop or shrink photos.

[Matson also said the photos are helpful to the students when completing class projects.] The classes I teach are project-based, and I make students bond in the beginning of class and learn names, but they must sustain that, ... The pictures help students communicate with each other.

I print out the roster and use it when calling on students in class. Learning first names assists in the learning process. A relationship between the teacher and student develops from that.

Our first priority was to get all of the students' equipment out of there, as much as we could, for two reasons: to salvage it; we couldn't just rip it down, it was all their equipment, and to see if we could save the structure.

We couldn't be prouder of our students. They did this all on their own.