ACCESS (Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators, and Students Statewide) is an education initiative of the Alabama Department of Education. It provides opportunities and options for Alabama public high school students to engage in Advanced Placement (AP), elective, and other courses to which they may not otherwise have access.
The ACCESS plan provides access to high quality instruction and coursework by providing a technical infrastructure to deliver pedagogically sound courses via the Internet and a catalogue of approved Internet-based courses using the latest interactive instructional models, and blending online/Internet-based coursework with Alabama certified teachers as E-teachers from delivery school sites to receive school sites that otherwise would not have an Alabama certified teacher to instruct the course.
There are many resources available to teachers through ACCESS, including much funding for school needs. Computers, white boards, and cameras are just a few things that funding helps with.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Sunday, January 20, 2008
ALEX in your classroom
ALEX is a very useful resource to use in the classroom. First of all, it is a great aid to teachers in finding grade appropriate lessons for any subject matter from music and drama to math and science. It is packed full of new ideas for brand new teachers who may not have too many ideas on how to teach many subject matters.
ALEX is also very useful to kids, as it acts as a search engine to find information on classroom subjects. ALEX has a student web links so that the student may find out more information that way.
Overall, ALEX is a great resource for both teacher and student.
ALEX is also very useful to kids, as it acts as a search engine to find information on classroom subjects. ALEX has a student web links so that the student may find out more information that way.
Overall, ALEX is a great resource for both teacher and student.
Alabama Learning Exchange (ALEX)
ALEX is an exchange of a wide variety of lesson plans for teachers. The website http://alex.state.al.us was very helpful, as it guides you to different subject areas, grade levels, then finally the appropriate lesson plans. The cool thing is, it's not just a couple ideas for lessons, there are pages of ideas from teachers giving great detail of the lesson. The plans range from math to art, drama to science, and even music; all for different grade levels and experience level for music.
I was also amazed that part of ALEX is a distant learning program. ACCESS Distance Learning is the Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators, and Students Statewide. It provides education to schools with limited funding for books, materials, and other resources for learning, so that everyone has the opportunity for education.
I was also amazed that part of ALEX is a distant learning program. ACCESS Distance Learning is the Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators, and Students Statewide. It provides education to schools with limited funding for books, materials, and other resources for learning, so that everyone has the opportunity for education.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Movie Reflection
This video, though short, had a startling message about technology and the world that I was not aware of. Not only did the message about technology startle me, but also the messages about how much other countries are advancing such the high number of college graduates, especially the fact that every graduate in India speaks English. I was also shocked at the great number of different jobs people will have before they reach the age of 38.
It didn't occur to me that most of the jobs today didn't exist 10 years ago, and that the way we are technologically advancing, in another 10 years there will be even more jobs that we don't have even today. This shows that education today needs to prepare young people for the opportunity to be able to be educated to handle these such jobs in years to come.
It didn't occur to me that most of the jobs today didn't exist 10 years ago, and that the way we are technologically advancing, in another 10 years there will be even more jobs that we don't have even today. This shows that education today needs to prepare young people for the opportunity to be able to be educated to handle these such jobs in years to come.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
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