Week 9

ALEX

From just looking at the web site it seems very easy and organized. The home page has 8 links that can guide teachers to the course of study, web links, lesson plans, search, personal workplace, professional learning, podcast treasury, and help. When you use the Courses of Study link it takes you to a list of courses that you can pick from. After you choose a course that you would like to look up then you pick the grade that you would like to view, it will then take you to a list of lesson plans for that subject and grade. Web links can be helpful for teachers; it gives many links for teacher, students, and administrators.
ALEX can be very helpful to any teacher. It can be a very useful tool. It provides a way for teachers in Alabama to share their lesson plans and many more things, which can really help you as a new teacher and give you ideas. When I become a teacher I will use this site to help me with my lesson plans. I would encourage all teachers to visit this website.


ACCESS

When I was looking throughout the ACCESS web site and many more websites about ACCESS I found many links to the main site . Many people were talking highly about the program and how it helped students. The Alabama ACCESS Distance Learning Initiative was launched on November 1, 2004, with funding of $10.3 million starting October 1, 2005. The distance education program was the result of research and planning by Governor Bob Riley’s Task Force on Distance Learning. It Provide access to advanced diploma courses targeting foreign languages, access to additional course offerings, access to Advanced Placement or dual credit courses, access to remediation and supplemental resources, Leverage existing resources and distance learning offerings, Provide teachers with additional multimedia and technology tools to enhance instruction, and it Utilize outside evaluation to periodically assess weaknesses and strengths of the program in order to make appropriate adjustments to the implementation of Year Two through Year Five objectives. ACCESS provides many more things to students.
This program can help many students! I hope in the future more teacher’s use this site to help their students who do not have the programs available at their school. But the problem that some schools are going to have is that they do not have enough computers for all of their students or computers that work so that could be a problem. But if I had the opportunity to use this program I would!