ALEX

No, ALEX is not my boyfriend of 2 years or my best friend. In fact, ALEX is not even a person. Come on now. No one is so important that their name should be written in all caps. What I am talking about is the Alabama Learning Exchange. As easy as I can put it, and seemingly very self-explanatory, ALEX is a resource for information dealing with education. It is a useful website that people from all over the world can access and learn about common ideas underlying education.

ALEX's home page has a series of buttons that you can choose from that include: courses of study, web links, lesson plans, personal workspace, professional learning, and distance learning. Courses of study allows access to different subtitles of education, like math, science,etc. You can then look at specific areas in those subtitles. Web links gives websites for teachers, students, and administrators dealing with the same subtitles that were mentioned earlier, etc. Lesson plans deals with sample lesson plans for certain subjects. The personal workspace button allows a personal account with all the information and resources that pertain to a certain person and their particular field. The professional learning button has more resources to better a person in their field and their life, in general. The distance learning button explains about ACCESS (Alabama Connecting Classroom, Educators and Students Statewide). ACCESS deals with giving students opportunities they may not get from their schools. Two examples would be electives or Advanced Placement.

While this website has awesome resources already, it allows for people to add things if they feel like it is important enough. This hints to the "exchange" part of it. Since i am a physical education major, i definitely think I can use this as a resource for information that pertains to my job in physical education. I also can get ideas from others who share their ideas on the website. I still think that experience is the best way to really learn things, but it couldn't hurt.