ACCESS, What is it?

Alright, well today I'm going to write about ACCESS. ACCESS stands for Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators, and Students Statewide. It is another program, created by the Alabama Department of Education, which is a tool designed to make great advances in education.

ACCESS is designed to provide Alabama high school students with courses that may not be offered at their school, or just extra classes they would like to participate in. The program offers courses related to the Advanced Placement (AP) classes, electives, and various other courses. It is also supposed to offer access to the Advanced Diploma courses. ACCESS is completely web-based, so there is a large amount of technology that comes along with it. Many different advantages come with offering courses via ACCESS. Each course has its own teacher, most of which record their lessons and post them online for the students to have easy access. Also, taking courses on ACCESS allows students at one school to interact with students at another, which is just an early form of networking for these students.

I personally think ACCESS is a great idea. I have worked with a teacher who actually taught a few classes on ACCESS and I thought the technology involved was great. There are so many possibilities with the courses offered. Online courses are definitely not for everyone, but I personally enjoy them. An internet course will definitely teach you self-discipline because with these courses everything is your responsibility! I think schools offering ACCESS courses is great though. Some schools just can't offer every course, but with ACCESS its possible to offer a much larger variation of classes. If I was ever offered the oppotunity to teach on ACCESS I would definitely take the chance.

Well, that's is the main idea behind ACCESS. Hope you enjoyed reading! That's all for now. =]

Kimmie