ACCESS

ACCESS is the acronym for Alabama Connecting Classroom, Educators and Students Statewide program. The intent of this program is to provide all students with the advanced courses that are required for diplomas. Some students in rural areas does not have access to courses such as physics and trigonometry. The access program has a mission to interconnect schools throughout the state of Alabama with an effort to communicate with the distance learning courses.

ACCESS works with the ALEX program through communication on and off line. ACCESS provides access to the best courses and teachers through technology; the courses are internet and interactive based. The ACCESS program requires extensive amounts of funds. Videoconferencing is how the teachers communicates with the students.

When I was in high school at Moss Point High School in Moss Point, Mississippi, I had the benefit of using a program similar to ACCESS. We did not call ours ACCESS as far as I knew, we only used the name distance learning. The instructor for my genetics class was the teacher for students at Bay High. It was a fun experience for me because it was new, and I had the chance to meet other enthused students in a different city. The equipment was high tech and there were many rules we had to follow to protect ourselves and the equipment. When I become a teacher, I would like to conduct an ACCESS class.