The Alabama Connecting Classroom, Educators and Students Statewide (ACCESS) program has and excellent acronym for its name. Basically what ACCESS does is provide access to students to take courses over the web. This website is important because there are many schools that do not have an advanced diploma program, according to the ACCESS power point. This program is required and some schools do not have the budget to cover these diplomas.

According to ACCESS’s website, ACCESS provides high quality classroom courses and teachers, through technology. They actually use two different methods of teaching courses; through synchronous and asynchronous. This means that they are able to teach students face-to-face via two way audio and two way video, and can give assignments and have online books that the student may use at any time. I think that website is invaluable to the students of not only today but tomorrow, and may also produce more computer literate individuals in the process.

Did You Know?

This presentation was very compelling to me. It had many facts that have started many conversations all over the world. The Did You Know video is interesting in that it sparks interest into anyone who watches it, and may even inspire change. I really had no idea that there are more text messages sent every day than there are people in the entire world.

It is also very new to me that if myspace was a country that it would be the eighth largest in the world. I knew that there were many people who have joined myspace, but never that many. If someone had told me most of the facts in this presentation a few years back, I probably would have called them a liar. I give this video two thumbs up for actually, making me think a little bit.

Alabama Learning Exchange

The Alabama Learning Exchange is a resource website for k-12 teachers. It has several very detailed sections that are extremely valuable to teachers today. By clicking on this link one can be taken to ALEX’s homepage, with a list of helpful items.

Some of the sections on the Alabama Learning Exchange’s include: course of study guidelines, lesson plan advice, important web links that a teacher may find helpful, and a personal workspace area where a teacher may create and save lesson plan data. Alex also has a powerful search engine to help teachers quickly find subject matter. I believe that this site can be very important to inexperienced as well as seasoned educators today.

This website will help me greatly in the classroom by giving me the resources I need to teach and learn new lesson plans. It will also keep me up to date with current curriculum changes in any grade k-12. Since I am planning to become a physical educator, it is imperative that I successfully teach the kids healthy exercise habits, and I believe that this website will keep me current on the latest methods of doing so.

The Alabama Learning Exchange website is also very user friendly, in that every thing is organized, and various colors are used to identify the different sections, I wanted to try out the course of study function and was surprised at how easy it was. I first selected physical education and selected the fifth grade as my grade level. That brought up a page that had sixteen objectives that may be used for lesson plans. Overall I would say that this website is very effective in helping out teachers.

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my name is Sean Ceballos and i am a sophmore at the university of south alabama. I am a physical education major because i believe that i can help todays youth be physically healtier. I also like to work with childeren and believe that i can make a difference in their lives. i am also in the United States Coast Guard Reserves, and i have recently passed my two year mark in that organization. i am a machinery technition third class and enjoy working for the coast guard. i also am on the university of south alabama's new ncaa football team and im currently looking forward to spring training.

i went to dodge elementary for grades k-5 and am not sure how old i was when i left there. in grades six through eight i attended cranford burns middle school and did not play any sports at all. grades nine through twelve i attended murphy high school and played football for three years.

i have always played sports and enjoyed being active for as long as i can remember. when i was five i played baseball and football until i was about ten. however baseball became boring to me, so i quit that and just stuck with football, which is the best sport anyways. when south opened up their new team i wasnt going to join but my familly pressured me into doing it so here i am. my favorite website is mbkfa.com here is a link front page