Once again, I am almost embarrassed to say that I've never heard of ALEX before until now! I keep telling myself that this is what education is about and why I pay the big bucks to go to school!
ALEX stands for "Alabama Learning Exchange". It is a site made for teachers, parents, and students listing state testing requirements, lesson plans, resources, etc. Not only does it list all of these helpful items, but it lists them in such a way that it's easy to find. ALEX is a one-stop resource site. It doesn't give one a thousand different links to click on; one gets all the information on one page.
ALEX is a product of the Alabama Department of Education in hopes to make it easier for students, parents, and teachers to view material and to help them along in their everyday endeavors. Lesson plans made my other teachers are available so that one can see what materials any given teacher is using in his or her classroom. There are also interactive activities that students and/or parents can do to help them better their knowledge of a given topic.
The Alabama Learning Exchange website is wonderfully informative. I definitely can see myself using this as a teacher, and hopefully someday as a parent. As the writer of the homepage said him or herself, ALEX is a work in progress, and I can't wait to see how far it comes in the future!
http://alex.state.al.us/showpage.php?lnk=welcome
I hadn't had much experience with ALEX either until I did this blog post. I found that some of the course of study standards are a few years out of date; so if you use ALEX in the future, make sure to double-check those. I thought the podcast gallery was particularly great. Your blog looks awesome!
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