Alabama Connecting Classroom, Educators and Students Statewide (ACCESS)

Alabama Connecting Classroom, Educators and Students Statewide or ACCESS, provides classroom courses for teachers certified in Alabama through technology. Administrators and teachers all over Alabama are excited about ACCESS. According to the news release by the Press Register on July 10, 2008 all Mobile County high schools will have ACCESS. ACCESS basically offers students to take courses at another school that are not offered at theirs via internet. Among the opportunities ACCESS offers includes: additional course offering through multimedia, advanced placement courses, remediation and supplemental courses, multimedia and technology tools to promote instruction. ACCESS also provides teachers with videoconferencing tools.

Teachers go through a training process to learn how to use the material. ACCESS is also free for all students in the state of Alabama. Courses are taught during the regular school day and as soon as all high schools in Alabama have ACCESS in 2011, every school will have the same bell schedule to correspond with one another. I am not sure how useful it will be with physical education (my major) but it will definitely be valuable for all core subjects. I am excited to learn more about ACCESS and actually see it in person.