Sunday, January 18, 2009

Alabama Learning Exchange

ALEX stands for Alabama Learning Exchange, the site is broken down into eight parts that you can click on and lead to other parts of the site. These eight parts consist of the course of study, web links, lesson plans, search, personal workspace, professional learning, distance learning, and help. Alex is for educators and administrators, it has resources that would be useful for someone just graduating to the most seasoned instructor looking for new ideas to spice up their classroom. It can also be helpful to students who are looking for something to add to their learning experience.

Through the course of study you can choose from different subjects, and grades allowing you to view what students should know upon entering the different grades with in the school system. The web link button has Educational sites for teachers, administrators, and students which they can view for help with homework or ideas for projects.

Another resource that is very useful to a teacher are lesson plans, when you enter the lesson plan room you can create your own personal account and then make your own plans and save them to the site for future use. Other options include finding lesson plans by Author, Title, or School. If you are not sure what you want to look for you can search under the subject and grade level to find some ideas that way.

Educators also have an opportunity to log in to their own workspace, and upload or create their own personal lesson plans and submit them. Along with this there is a button to professional learning that links teachers to websites that will help them to maintain and build upon their own learning process, making them a better educator.

Other links include ACCESS distance learning and help. ACCESS stands for Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators, Students, Statewide; giving students an opportunity to take part in courses not offered at there school. For those who are somewhat technologically challenged the help button answers a few questions on how to help with documents, lesson plans, trouble shooting, and a few other issues that one might have.

Alex is an amazing web site that I have found very useful and can see myself useing it in the near future. Not just when I become a teacher but even while taking classes here at South to give me some ideas to better my own work in the field of education.

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