ACCESS

ACCESS distant learning is joining high school students and educators together to help the learning process in education. It has a tool that lists how to help review for the 10 AP exam that students take and even how to look up your textbooks in advance. There is advance placement tests that are college approved that will challenge the student for exellence. There is links to ALEX, ChemLab, and even AVL which are excellent resources for information and knowledge. The Testimonials is very cool because you can read how the students and teachers feel about the ACCESS program and hopefully connect with them for future references.

"ALEX"

The ALEX website is full of useful tips and resources for every teacher. Each category offers a different tool on this website that will help any educator find lesson plans or web links they need. There is lesson plans that will help you find what you need in the exact subject, grade, and areas of resources. The courses of study helps you find the teaching objectives in the area needed and gives a brief example of what should the requirement should meet. I really like the web links sections because it offers a student web link search that gives a good variety of choices for all subjects in every grade K-12. The podcasts treasury is a gallery of selected podcasts by students and by some teachers that contains videos on technology, science, and even art. One of the sponsors is the Gulf Coast Explorium, which is pretty cool because its close to home. This website is a very useful tool in teaching and i know that we will see more of this website when we go through student teaching.

How we dream

This video discusses all the ways that researching and writing have evolved with time and technology. Hours spent in the libraries searching for books, taking down notes, and making copies of information found is something that rarely happens anymore. Now you see students on the web looking up videos and blogs for information and not just have their heads buried in books. Webpages now have videos and sound on them which makes it more of a learning experience than just to research. I think that all the classrooms should keep sending their children to the library because books are full of knowledge but they should encourage their children to research on the web too and combine both experiences to create the best learning atmosphere possible.