Saturday, August 23, 2008

ACCESS Program topic three

The Alabama Connecting Classroom, Education and Students Statewide(ACCESS) is a program designed to help students that need to take a course on-line that may not be offered at his or her school. The program is offered to students grades 9-12 across the state of Alabama.
This program will help students that live in rural areas who may not have many course offerings available to them.
It provides access to high quality instruction and course work by providing a technical infrastructure to deliver sound courses by the internet.
Whats neat about ACCESS is that teachers can bring up a screen that is visible to the class to demonstrate how to work a problem or question, as well. Multiple screens can be shown at the same time and instructors can teach two or three classes at once.

ACCESS Distance Education is a state funded project and is free to all public school students within Alabama. Learning strategies also include the creation of three additional support centers, increasing the number of quality distance learning available to students,developing a blended course model and providing additional computers for on-line course access.

I think this program is very resourceful and can help a lot of students further their education. It can be helpful for students that need to take AP courses to get an advanced diploma and don't have the courses they need available to them. It is a good opportunity for hands on relationships between students and teachers.
To form a good student-teacher relationship is very essential. I hope this program help as many students as possible.

topic 2: ALEX programs

The Alabama Learning Exchange is a communal database of lesson plans created and posted by other teachers. The database is searchable by subjects.
It has knowledge areas in: Core subjects, Themes, Arts, Economics, English, Reading or Language Arts just to name a few.(www.21stcenuryskills.com)

The ALEX program to me is very resourceful. As for a teacher who is just starting out in her career, the ALEX can be a very useful guide. It gives examples on how to do lesson plans. Not only that it breaks it down into subjects. Therefore, if a teacher was looking for a specific lesson plan you can find it here at ALEX. It has valuable information that can be very helpful to you in the classroom setting. ALEX can make your first classroom experience more relaxing and better to adjust.

It also has different links you can go to that can be very useful to you as a teacher.
When I become a teacher I will be using this program a lot. It has so much information from lessons plans to a variety of subjects. I recommend all teachers to use the ALEX program.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

About Me topic one

Hi everyone, my name is Nikita Reed and i am twenty-seven years old. I am a single mother with four children, I know your probably thinking Oh my God!! I get that all the time. It's not an easy job, but their mine and i love them with all my heart. Their names are Cameran, Christian, Kaiyah, and Keelan. They are the light of my life. I'm a very nice person, very quiet and love to be around my family and friends. The reason i wanted to go back to school is for three main reasons: stability,job security and my children. I want to be able to provide for my children and to be independent. I love to read and sometimes i write poems on my spare time, which is not that often. I love helping others, especially children in need. Children are so precious and deserve to be given the opportunity to learn and have things like other children that are more fortunate have. That's about all I can think of for now. Hope you enjoy reading my Blog.

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Hi, everyone i would like to take this time and invite you to my blog and feel free to check out my blog anytime. This is my first time blogging so if anyone has any advice about something or just want to share information let me know.