ACCESS

ACCESS is an educational program that stands for ALABAMA CONNECTING CLASSROOMS, EDUCATORS, AND STUDENTS STATEWIDE. The vision of this program is for Alabama to provide access to high quality instruction to improve student achievment through distance learning. The mission is to provide an infrastructure that delivers quality learning opportunities for all citizens, and the goal is to provide additional educational offerings for all Alabama public high school students.
Modern technology has evolved to the point that all students should have access to whatever educational needs and objectives they have or want, and the state of Alabama wants to be more competetive with other southern states that have more resources. Right now, Alabama ranks 14th out of the 16 southern states in offering A.P., and distance learning will provide top quality classroom courses and teachers via technology. Remedial resources will also be available to help enhance those students who need extra help. Outreach between other teachers and students through the internet and interactive video will provide boundless resources.
Students are not the only group of people who will benefit from ACCESS. Professionals, mentors, parents and, of course educators will all excel and grow as a community by being involved in the positive and empowering process of educational and intellectual growth.

How I Will Utilize ALEX

Due to the unlimited amount of information on the internet, It is a wonderful time in history to be an inquisitive individual. As a 3rd year college student studying elementary education, I have come to depend on webites for information just as much as my textbooks. This is probably true for most students as well as the majority of the population of the United States. If not now, later for sure. In the field of education, learning is an ongoing process and The Alabama Learning Exchange (ALEX), has made the process easily obtainable by being able to go to the website http://www.alex.state.al.us. and access areas of interest or concern. In researching this site, I felt immediate relief that their are such wonderful tools out there for new teachers. With another year of school and my student teaching still ahead of me, I have things yet to do and learn in order to run my own classroom, but even then I will need help and ALEX will definately be a source of support and knowledge for me. It is comforting knowing that lesson plans by successful and experienced teachers in whatever area needed are obtainable and when I have lesson plans that have been effective for me, I can upload them for others to try. If I don't find exactly what I am looking for, ALEX will provide other database searches and links to help me. As important as it is to stay abreast of current events, ALEX also keeps users informed of what is going on in the world, both in and outside of the classroom. I am quite certain I will be a frequent user of this informative website for Alabama educators.

ALEX OVERVIEW

Alabama provides its educators with a vast amount of important information on the web. One such site is
http://www.alex.state.al.us., belonging to Alabama Learning Exchange (ALEX). On researching this site I found out that it is indeed a very helpful tool in many ways for successfully keeping teachers on the cutting edge of learning, obtaining and sharing knowledge with other educators.
Part of establishing an account with ALEX is to agree upon terms of a contract which states that the user will abide by basic rules of moral and lawful conduct while using this service. The site offers courses of study by grade level or keywords which allows the user access to their specific area of interest or concern. Web links, lesson plans, database searches and distance learning are some of the many highlights ALEX has to offer. This site is easily obtainable which will allow for efficiency which is essential for becoming a master in teaching.

MLK Day

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Movie Response

The movie on u tube was an eyeopener about the ever-changing world of technology in which we live. By far, americans are the most privledged people in the world by having the means and the access to global information and technology at their fingertips. Coutries such as India and China are growing in population at a larger pace than we are and are making huge strides in competing with the USA in areas of education and marketing. An example of their awareness to be included in the top escalon of competetors is the fact that most of their citizens learn the english language. It is amazing to know that through the screen of a computer we can communicate with other people throughout the world. In reality, other than the major competetive countries, many people don't have the opportunity to be involved in this exciting time of massive and progressive inventions. We really are lucky to be Americans.

Thursday's blog

It took me a while, but I found out how to do this

My first day of class

I may actually be able to get this