The Alabama Learning Exchange

The Alabama Learning Exchange is a useful online resource for teachers and students designed by the Alabama Department of Education that provides many tools and materials on the web, some introduced by certified teachers themselves, that one can use as a fast reference for learning. There is alot this site offers to better organize the information you find useful to you. Its appeal and focus is that it finds easy and fast ways for you to improve the way you learn or teach by sharing methods and new information or knowledge.
ALEX has many options to make your experience organized and convenient. The Course of Study option allows to you zero in and choose a particular suject or grade level to focus on. The WebLink option divides the suject matter into separate links that are grouped together by teacher, student, and administrator's sections whatever your status may be.The Lesson Plan option has the choice of searcing lesson plans used by different teachers and schools on every grade level and subject you need. It also allows you to write and save your own lesson plans to add to and use in the future. The Personal Workspace option lets you store your finds from the searches you used and the work you responded with such as your lesson plans. This feature lets you keep your work and share it with others for as long as you need it. The Professional Learning tool allows you to read news, and check out groups that promote development of learning for certain types of study. It shows ways to allow access for better growth and communication in your particular profession. The Access Learning feature which is really A-labama C-onnecting C-lassrooms E-ducators and S-tudents S-tatewide is a helpful way to provide speacial programs such as advanced courses for students through audio and video teaching to challenge them. These are opportunities that their school may not necessarily provide or require for them. They are all in the content of the Distance Learning tool.