Blog # 13

I'm glad I got a chance to Explore a site I have herd so much about ALEX. I was told by a fellow student in one of my other education classes that it was a good website and had some wonderful tools. the one she used was the lesson plans get get ideas for our TAP project in EPY 355. One thing I have found interesting was the fact you could look at other podcast that other teachers have done. I went to the Podcast area of ALEX and look at Podcast that teachers have done for different subjects. I picked history. Then you hit enter and it takes you to a long list of Podcast. The one that caught my eye was the one on Christmas around the world since we are getting ready for the season. It was done by a second grade class in Vestavia. This was a very neat idea I will look into incorporating into my classroom. There was also a virtual tour of the battle ship. Just really neat ideas

One other neat feature this site has to offer is the Course of study spot. It comes up with all subjects and you pick the main title like Arts education. Then a list of topics came up and I picked the one for dance an the grade was K and it poped right up with Lesson plans and what they should learn. They also give you the choice of picking a level which I went back and did because I did not do it before which made the lesson plans a lot more specific and a lot better. So that is something you must not forget to do. This site makes teaching a lot easier and is well worth the visit. It is a great way for teachers in Alabama to share their work and be able to be connected to on another.

The ACCESS is a program I have dealt with personally. The high school I graduated from has an ACCESS lab and classes. My Bother was one of the first students to get to do this new program at my old high school. He would go to the lab and the teacher would be broadcast on a screen in the lab for the class. If not on the screen then he cloud pull up lectures online and all of his assignments were web based much like this class. He really enjoyed this class because it gave him the chance to learn from a different teacher in the state and not be forced to stay within the confines of our staff at Citronelle. He learned the hard way you could not get behind because if you did it was hard to catch up. This is a wonderful program and the website was very nice to and talked a lot about the new way teaching is going on.