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Alabama Learning Exchange (ALEX)
ALEX is the free, state educational Web portal designed to provide the best, high-quality resources and one-stop shopping for Alabama’s teachers, principals, parents, and students. Over 38,000 Web-based interactives, podcasts, and panel-reviewed Alabama Teacher lesson plans linked to Alabama’s official Courses of Study are available for all teachers to use in their classrooms immediately. This award-winning Web portal (2007 and 2008 “Best of the Web”) contains a wealth of additional resources to enhance learning in every content area—all digital, all online, all completely Alabama’s. ALEX website: http://alex.state.al.us

Alabama Virtual Library
The Alabama Virtual Library provides all students, teachers, and citizens of the State of Alabama with online access to essential library and information resources. It is primarily a group of online databases that have magazine, journal, and newspaper articles for research. Through the AVL, an equitable core of information sources are available to every student and citizen in Alabama, raising the level of excellence in schools and communities across the state.

If you enjoy the benefits that AVL brings to your school, college, library or home, please take a few minutes to thank your local legislators for providing this resource for the State of Alabama.

APTPLUS
APTPLUS™ is Alabama Public Television’s 21st Century destination for online learning.  State-of-the-art technology combined with a wealth of content-rich resources makes learning a dynamic, interactive experience for all ages.  Free for educators, adult learners, childcare professionals, parents and youth, APTPLUS™ provides exciting multimedia educational materials to serve the people of Alabama.

Need Help? Please visit our Online Video Tutorials

Distance Learning Week

Click here to access or download the following recorded events - Little River Canyon, German Consulate Conferences I & II, McWane Center - Shark Dissection, Dauphin Island Sea Lab, McWane Center - Concepts of Chemistry, Civil War Medicine, and the interview with Alabama artist Charlie Lucas. Thanks to the Alabama Supercomputer for recording these events for ACCESS.


Graphmatica

Graphmatica is a course-specific download. Contact your regional support center if you need more help. In order to download, contact your ACCESS teacher for the password.

Graphmatica Help

Graphmatica Information

Graphmatica is a powerful, easy-to-use, equation plotter with numerical and calculus features:

  • Graph Cartesian functions, relations, and inequalities, plus polar, parametric, and ordinary differential equations
  • Up to 999 graphs on screen at once
  • New data plotting and curve-fitting features
  • Numerically solve and graphically display tangent lines and integrals
  • Find critical points, solutions to equations, and intersections between Cartesian functions
  • Print your graphs or copy to clipboard as bitmap or enhanced metafile in black-and-white or color
  • Online help and demo files make getting up to speed a snap

HippoCampus
HippoCampus is a FREE project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge. No log-in needed for teachers or students.

Allows teachers to:

  • Browse available courses (Readings, Assignments, and Assessments)
  • Search for multimedia content
  • Create custom HippoCampus site by selected topics, textbook lists, bookmarks, and announcements
  • Customize Version for Students


MathType

MathType is a course-specific download. Contact your ACCESS teacher or regional support center if you need more help. In order to download, contact your ACCESS teacher for the password.

Download Software - MathType **Please follow the directions on the next page carefully!

MathType is a powerful interactive equation editor for Windows and Macintosh that lets you create mathematical notation for word processing, Web pages, desktop publishing, presentations, and for TeX, LaTeX, and MathML documents. MathType works with 100s of applications and Websites, allowing you to put Equations Everywhere and Anywhere™.

SAS® Curriculum Pathways® Free Resource
Although free, SAS® Curriculum Pathways® requires an intial login.  Please contact your Regional Support Center or the Alabama State Department of Education contact for login information or click here to register for a new account or retrieve credentials for an existing account.

As you plan for the 2012-2013 school year, please note new requirements are in effect. After logging in, click System Check to prepare your computer.

This resource is your online partner for teaching the core curriculum:
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