ACCESS

Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators & Students Statewide or ACCESS is a great new addition to High School Curriculums statewide. Through it, students will have access to classes their individual schools cannot afford to offer. Through the use of Teleconferencing, students and teachers will be able to communicate directly just as if they were in the same classroom. The changes to our education system that this can help bring about will be a step in the right direction to merge traditional teaching with today’s rapidly developing technology.

When I was stationed in Maryland, I attended a Spanish refresher course on the NSA campus that was taught by one of my former teachers from the Joint Language Institute in Monterey, California using similar technology, and it was amazing to me then as this is now, that he Could be thousands of miles away teaching a class of 8 students as if he were in the room with us. I’m excited to see that the Public School system in this state is taking such a bold step forward.