Alabama Learning Exchange (ALEX)

The State of Alabama has a wonderful new information library on the internet available for teachers named the Alabama Learning Exchange. This website has various links to help teachers in any subject or grade. As a teacher accesses these links, he/she will have the opportunity to view lesson plans, ideas from other teachers, as well as additional links to help support their teaching methods. This site allows a teacher the ability to communicate with other teachers through a support roundtable. Additionally there are links with grant opportunities and a link specifically for tips and tricks of the trade.

Another fascinating tool on the ALEX website is a link for teachers and students to participate in distance learning with the new ACCESS program. The ACCESS program is new and will soon be available in all of the Mobile County High Schools. ACCESS enables high school students to take classes online or through other interactive avenues that might not be available through their school. This ACCESS lab will give teachers the opportunity to become an interactive educator by participating in the ACCESS program.

Alabama is striving to be on the cutting edge of technology with both the ALEX and ACCESS programs. Both of these websites give Alabama educators as well as Alabama students access to things that would normally not be available by the touch of a keyboard. Take a moment to view the website for yourself, http://alex.state.al.us/, you may be pleasantly suprised.