ALEX

Alabama Learning Exchange

The Alabama Learning Exchange is a website where teachers and administrators can find the Alabama course of study, web resources, and lesson plans that are aligned with the Alabama course of study content standards. The Alabama Learning Exchange is referred to as ALEX. The ALEX website is made up of 8 different sections to assist you in your teaching of Alabama students.

The first section of ALEX is the course of study. You can search by grade level or keyword for all subjects to locate the course of study requirements. The second section is a Web Links section. Located in this section you have teacher web links, administrators web links, and student web links. You may even search for a web link as it correlates to the content standards. If you would like to submit recommendations for web links, you must become a registered member of ALEX. The third section of ALEX is a lesson plan section. You can have access to many lesson plans by searching for your grade level or subject. For those that want to share lesson plans with others, these can also be submitted to ALEX for approval and inclusion on the website. If you know of someone, or a particular school that submitted a lesson, you can also search using that person's name or school name. For it's fourth section, ALEX also features a search datebase for the website.

The fifth section of ALEX is a personal workspace section. This section is for those that would like to contribute to ALEX. You can register your information here, and then be permitted to make website recommendations and submit lesson plans. The sixth section is the professional learning section. This section keeps you up to date with professional development opportunities, teaching and learning tools, and the latest news in education. There is also some information for writing grants for your classroom projects available in this section. They include lists of available grants in Alabama and the U.S. This section also includes information on the Alabama virtual library. The seventh section is a podcast treasury section. Many of the podcasts featured here are specific to Alabama school children and Alabama history information. It also contains links to special places in Alabama like the Space and Rocket center. This information could be used as prepatory information for an upcoming field trip, or as a virtual field trip by itself. The final section of ALEX is a help section for troubleshooting on the website. If you have trouble registering or submitting information this section will assist you.

I found this website to be a great resource as a Alabama educator. I was not aware of this site previously. I also found a facebook page for ALEX while doing my search on Google. I became a fan as part of my PLN.