Angela Heyer and myself visited the Access program in Daphne, AL. ACCESS stands for Alabama Connecting Student's Statewide. Daphne is the only one up and running in Baldwin County at this time. Mr. Roh is the coordinator of this program, at Daphne High School. He was very nice and took us through everything. There are two ways to the Access program, web based and video conferencing,or IVC. At this time the school is using web based. Web based is like courses taken online. This system was fully functional in January 2007. The IVC allows a teacher to broadcast live video and sound to any other similarly equipped school in Alabama. Using two remote controlled camera's at either end of the classroom. Mr. Roh teaches online chemistry to student's at a high school in Uriah,AL. The teacher decided to retire all of a sudden in the middle of the school year. He decided to offer this to that school. There are 50 ACCESS teachers in Baldwin County. Forty two students are now enrolled in this program. I think this is great! Students can take classes they are not offered at there school. Especially in lower income schools where not much is offered.
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