3/14/10 HW Week 9

ALEX
This is a pretty cool website that is made just for teachers so that they can go look at it and see what kind of lesson plans are out there. They have some things where you can see lesson plans that teachers before them have done. The teachers can also look and listen to old podcast other teachers have done. You can also look in databases and find stuff that had been made a long time ago.
I think that this is a cool thing for teachers now. It is pretty interesting just looking around and seeing all the things that they have in there that is open to anybody who wants to use them. I will most certainly use this tool, because it might give me a different outlook on how I want to teach a lesson and how it will come across to the students. I could also use this website to make little puzzles and games to get the students involved.
ACCESS
This is a program that is designed for students that are in the upper part of their class. What it is, is that they can go to this class that is taught online and the students can use this to help them achieve college credits. The students can start the classes their freshman year and continue classes through out there high school career. The students can take a multitude of classes like exotic languages such as Spanish and french. They also take classes like math and English. The teachers do all their teaching online and some in the classroom.
I think that this a great program as of now, but I think that they should extend this program to the lower level students to help them get admission into colleges. The bad thing about this program is that the parents do have to pay for these courses. But, as of right now the program is doing good and will one day maybe reach the lower level students.
Comments 4 Kids
This week I went to Mrs. Yollis' class blog and looked around watched her video on how to comment and also looked at one of their topics from February on Chris Van Allsburg's books. Which are very interesting books which all of you should check out!