Access and ALEX are alike in many ways. I gives the teacher a wider scope of options to incorporate the web and standard learning in the classroom. People want to learn the key is to keep them interested. I would say spice and creativity is what these sites bring to the classroom. No one wants to see a person standing in front a dry erase board for 7.5 hours day ...... after so many days the teacher would began to sound like the one on Charlie Brown, I know you remember that Dr. Strange LOL