ALEX:

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• ALEX
• Expanding the Concept of Literacy for the
• 21st Century Student

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Outcomes
You will be able to

• Use ALEX resources to engage the 21st Century
  Learner.
• Use ALEX to develop lessons to integrate with
  your curriculum.
• Use your ALEX Personal Workspace to save,
  organize resources.

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Personal Workspace
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Create an ALEX Account
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Engaging the Learner
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Engaging the Learner
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Engaging the 21st Century Learner
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Thinkfinity/ALEX Partners
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ALEX Free Features

• Winner of 2007 Best of the Web
• Personal Workspace
• Webpage for Every Teacher
• New Search Features
• Over 38,000 Lesson Plans, Activities Aligned to
  Digitized, Searchable Courses of Study
• New Listservs, Web Links, more
• New, Free ALEX and Thinkfinity Training
  Program for Each District

• Lesson Plan/Activity Sources
• Thinkfinity
• Alabama Teachers

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ALEX- coming

• Social Networking..Blogs, Wikis
• Levels of Mastery --notes--Flagged Courses of
  Study indicating when standards are introduced,
  reinforced, and mastered, etc.
• More Interactives all aligned to Alabama Courses
  of Study for Hard to Teach/Learn Standards,
  Typical Achievement Gap Areas
• Specially Designed Website for ELL, Special
  Education, Leadership Development,
  Schools/Districts in School Improvement, Career
  Technical, Alabama Reading Initiative, Library
  Media

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ALEX/ThinkfinityInstructional Plan

• activate prior knowledge
• build background knowledge
• generate questions
• make predictions
• discuss vocabulary
• establish a purpose for reading

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Courses of Study
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Lesson Plans
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Search
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Personal Workspace
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Go Fish!
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Share Your Catch!
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What you will need!

• Plug-Ins
• Acrobat Reader - PDF document viewing program
• Flash - Browser plug-in for animation,
  interactivity, and sound
• Shockwave - Multimedia game, learning application
  and product demonstration player
• RealOne Player - Audio/visual program allows
  users to play audio clips and movie clips
• QuickTime - Audio/visual program allows users to
  play full-motion video and digitized sound
• Java Java technology allows you to work with
  online interactives (applets)

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Outcomes

• Use ALEX resources to engage the 21st Century
  Learner.
• Use ALEX to develop lessons to integrate with
  your curriculum.
• Lesson Plans
• Courses of Study
• Interactives
• Use your ALEX Personal Workspace to save,
  organize resources.

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• ALEX
• Expanding the Concept of Literacy for the
• 21st Century Student