Websites

=Websites=

This page has been created to provide you with useful websites. If you have a good one that you think would be great to share with others, please let us know.

Go into the login section of the Chinook's Edge website to find the **username and password**. || login section to find CESD department information and resources || - released items - guides for parents ||
 * =Name of Website= || =URL= || =How is this website useful?= ||
 * **Alberta Assessment Consortium** || [] || As a district member, you have access to a wide variety of assessment resources.
 * **Alberta Education Programs of Study** || [] || This is your access point to all programs of study for Alberta. ||
 * **Blackgold School Division** || [] || A great resource for assessment and student friendly outcomes. ||
 * **Central Alberta Regional Consortium** || [] || CARC offers professional development for the Central Alberta educational community. Also check out this site for great **Social Studies** resources. ||
 * **CESD Home Page** || [|**www.chinooksedge.ab.ca**] || Use the
 * **PLC Cohort Contacts and Dates** || Professional Learning Community Hub || Hub contains links to contacts and resources for all K-8 (and several other) PLC groups, including wikis created by individual PLC groups ||
 * **Curriculum Express (for parents who are English Language Learners):** || [|**http://www.education.alberta.ca/parents/resources/express.aspx**] || This website provides an overview of curricular expectations for parents of children who are English Language learners. ||
 * **Instructional Media Center** || [] || This link is found on the VERY bottom of the CESD home page. IMC is located in Bowden and is your one stop source for resources for your classroom (novels, kits, etc. for all subject areas) ||
 * **Destiny** || [] || Destiny is your library program for CESD. Search any school's database to see the resources available to you. ||
 * **First Nations, Metis, and Inuit wiki** || http://fnmi-kits.wikispaces.com/ || This site provides support for a kit that has been developed for teacher use for the infusion of FNMI into your teaching. The kit can be booked throu the Instructional Media Center. ||
 * **Learn Alberta** || [] || Your one stop shop for curriculum support. You will need to create a personal account when you access this site. To do this, you will need your Alberta Teaching Certificate number. ||
 * **Parent-Teacher-Student Interviews** || [] || A variety of resources to support your work with parents. ||
 * **Podcast, Vodcast, Screencast** || http://weblogged.wikispaces.com/Podcast%2C+Vodcast%2C+Screencast+Nation || Will Richardson's wiki which provides resources for teachers with examples of how to podcast, vodcast and screencast ||
 * **Provincial Testing** || http:education.alberta.ca/admin/testing.aspx || - subject bulletins
 * **Podcast, Vodcast, Screencast** || http://weblogged.wikispaces.com/Podcast%2C+Vodcast%2C+Screencast+Nation || Will Richardson's wiki which provides resources for teachers with examples of how to podcast, vodcast and screencast ||
 * **Provincial Testing** || http:education.alberta.ca/admin/testing.aspx || - subject bulletins
 * **Quest A +** || [|http://questaplus.alberta.ca] || practice tests for diploma and achievement tests ||
 * **Teach Anyware** || [] || This site provides resources for online/distributed learning teaching. Use this site to access courses at a variety of grade levels and adapt them to your own context. ||
 * **Educational Technology Samples** || Technology Infused Classroom Resources and Exemplars || Developed by the Ed. Tech department, this wiki is your access point for resources related to Digital Citizenship and other resources. ||
 * **CESD Math** || http://cesdmath.wikispaces.com/ || Developed by teachers in a cohort model. This is a living wiki, developed by teachers for teachers and is focused on embedding digital technologies into the math classroom for purpses of instruction, assessment, and engagement. This wiki will grow and evolve and will not be a static repository. ||
 * **CESD HS Math** || http://cesdhsmath.wikispaces.com/ || This wiki is focused on providing current and updated information to help in the successful implementation of the high school math curriculum. ||
 * **CESD Assessment Wiki - Math & Science** || http://cesdassessment.wikispaces.com/ || This wiki was created by teachers for teachers to include performance assessment options to help gauge student understanding. This project focused on 5 and 8. ||
 * **Way Back Machine** || [] || Do you have a old URL link that is broken, put it in here to find that link again. ||
 * **Your Child's Education** || [] ||  ||
 * **Things to Consider Before School Starts** || [] || This Wiki discusses Classroom supply organization strategies, maxmizing learning environment, creating a classroom community, planning for student's needs... ||