ALEX

ALEX



All of the information I received about ALEX or Alabama's Learning Exchange I went to the following website: ALEX . Alex is a project of Alabama's Department of Education that is designed to index and share many types of educational materials and information through a time-saving, one-step resource for educators , parent, and students. A majority of the resources, such as lesson plans, web links, and interactive activities, are all located and connected to the Alabama Courses of Study by National board certified teachers.

While on the web site, you are able to download, print, adapt, and use lesson plans from the websites database and use them in your own personal classroom or even share them with other educators. Also on the website, it is easy to connect to the Alabama Department of Education, Alabama's Virtual Library, and Alabama's Public Television. When entering the website, there are may different categories you can choose from to fins information or lessons plans in education. The categories you are able to choose from on the website are Courses of Study, Lesson Plans, Search, and Web Links.

If you click on the topic Courses of Study, you are then given many other different options. You are then able to click on the subject area in which you are trying to find information or lesson plans for and you can also choose the grade level in which you are searching for. If you click on the lesson plans topic you can search by grade level and by subject. In the search topic you can also have your lesson plans categorized by grade level or keywords. The topic I found most useful was the web links topic. This topic allows you to find web link that are educational for the subject you are searching for. It has links for teachers, administrators, and students. You are also able to recommend websites to add to the list.

This website is very useful for teachers, parents, and students. As an upcoming teacher it will help by making it easy for me to find lesson plans for my students that are interesting and fun for each subject area. As a parent it will help me when I am trying to help my child with his homework because I can find information on projects or even research papers. This is also helpful as a student to help me with homework, projects, research papers, etc.