ALEX

Darlene Lewis
EDM310-501
Spring 2008


ALEX is a recently planned state educational Web entry for Alabama teachers. ALEX, which stands for Alabama Learning Exchange, has over 1 million educators, school leaders, students, and parents as of January 2007. With the ALEX program, educators will hopefully be able to create their own web page(s) to better communicate with students and parents. This program also has sources available for use for library media specialist. The ALEX program is well known for its fun, interactive, and educational activities.

Teachers who may be looking for support in making available educational services to special needs students may find this program to be rather helpful. ALEX provides educators with simple web page use by way of the Alabama Supercomputer Authority. Continuous studies are conducted throughout the ALEX program to keep up with its progress. One study shows that the ALEX program increases student incentive. This program also bestows online professional development resources to teachers.


When I began to teach, the ALEX program will be useful to me in my classroom in so many ways. I will utilize this program to my advantage by making use of a free web page. I will use my web page to communicate better with my student(s) parents. My web page would not only be beneficial to my parents, but also to my students. I could possibly upload educational programs or educational hyperlinks for my students to use while at home or in the classroom.

Another way that I will use the ALEX program to my advantage is to utilize the programs professional development resources. This will be very valuable to me being that the course of teaching changes on a regular basis. All teachers need to expend and be aware of extra professional development resources. I would also use this program when it comes to help with lesson plans. Lesson plans are not one of a teacher’s easiest tasks; help with lesson plans would be of great assistance to any educator.