The ALEX web site is a resource site designed as a very useful resource for teachers, administrators, and students. Essentially, this site is a gateway of consolidated information that is easily accessed by users from a single web portal. A great benefit for all users of this site is the ability to gain access to a broad source of information from a single web portal saving hours of research time using many individual sources of information. I find this site incredibly useful for having such a vast amount of resources accessible from a single gateway. To gather all of this information on your own would take a vast amount of time to consolidate into a list of good sites such as in your Internet Explorer Favorites or Firefox Bookmarks. Even if you were to build a large list of favorites/bookmarks for yourself, there is no real way of knowing how legit some of your sites will be. The ALEX development team went through great lengths to build this site with the endorsement of the Alabama Department of Education.
The ALEX main page is a gateway to eight separate pathways to information specific to what you are searching for such as: Courses of Study – Portal to all of the major subjects of education; Personal Workspace – Is a personalized workspace to allow you to upload lesson plans and anything relevant to building your lesson. You will need to create your own user login account with a secure password to access this information. Registration is FREE; Professional Learning – Stay on top of your own training as a teaching professional with valuable resources to furthering your own education; Web Links – Essential web links divided up into Teacher, Student, and Administrator relevant website links; Lesson Plans – A portal tool to allow you to search a lesson plan via Author, Title, School, Subject, and Grade Level; Distance Learning – Web based learning that allows access to education over the internet utilizing multimedia video tools; Search – A built in search engine that allows you to enter a term(s) to be searched through out the ALEX database; Help – A Frequently Asked Questions page to answer to most common issues on the ALEX site.
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