Your Charles Best Digital Portfolio

Welcome to your Digital Portfolio at Dr. Charles Best. We provide a unique and innovative digital culture for all students to learn in. We are a 1:1 school which means each and every student and staff member uses a device to enhance teaching and learning, and most importantly, help prepare our students with tools and skills to be successful in the future. In order to ensure the success of the 1:1 program we have put in place a variety of support systems.

If you ever need assistance with technology please visit the Digital Literacy Room beside room 202.

Edublogs

Our school uses Edublogs to document and showcase your learning and experiences at Dr. Charles Best. You will use your blog to post work and assignments for classes, to post about your learning and experiences in your portfolio, and write reflections based on the Core Competencies.

Get Edublog support here: Edublogs User Guides

Office 365

All of our staff and students have FREE access to O365 tools. Our school uses these tools as one of our foundational platforms.

Coquitlam Open Learning – Applications of Digital Literacy 10

At Dr. Charles Best, Grade 9 students will earn four credits for their work in developing digital literacy skills in the course, Applications of Digital Literacy 10. In their classes, students will be required to demonstrate the ability to efficiently and effectively navigate digital technologies while behaving ethically, responsibly and protecting personal security and privacy.

Digital Footprint

A digital footprint is the collection of all the traces you leave in electronic environments as you use or move through them. Some is content you actively volunteer—like your Facebook profile. Other material is passive—the cookies a site stores in your browser, the content your district collects about your use of their equipment, etc. All this data can be aggregated to build a profile of you and your behavior.

(Courtesy of http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/04/a-great-guide-on-teaching-students.html)

Tips for Creating a Positive Digital Footprint

Always THINK
Never post anything that you might find embarrassing later.
Be careful with the pictures you post on your public profiles. Remember others will see them and judge you based on their content.
Change the privacy settings on your social networking sites so that only your Friends can see your information
Do not disclose your personal address, phone number, passwords. Bank card numbers…etc even in private messages. There is always the possibility of somebody hacking into your account and finding them.
Do not post things to bully, hurt, blackmail, insult, or afflict any kind of harm on others
Always keep in mind that once information has been posted online, it can be almost impossible to remove because of archiving and file sharing. Even though you deactivate your accounts, the information may still be retrieved by others.

(Courtesy of http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/04/a-great-guide-on-teaching-students.html)

For my dish, I decided to make banana bread. Like many others, I’ve made banana bread a few times during my extra time at home. My family was asking for me to make another loaf, but I only had one banana to use. I decided to find a new recipe that only required one banana but still had enough flavour to make up for it. It was also good that I made this recipe because the banana I had was very brown, and it probably would’ve been thrown out soon anyways. I had most of the ingredients required for the recipe, but I did make some changes. For example, it required granulated sugar and brown sugar, but I only had brown sugar, so I just added brown sugar. I didn’t want my banana bread not to be sweet enough, so instead of adding walnuts, I tossed in some chocolate chips. I did learn later that I may have made it too sweet when the bread came out because I added too many chocolate chips. I didn’t measure them out and thought I could eyeball how much was enough. My family did still enjoy the banana bread, though. Because this was a smaller loaf, we split it evenly and ate it together in one sitting, which was nice. I was expecting not to taste as much banana, but to my surprise, it tasted almost as flavorful as my other banana bread recipe. If I ever made this banana bread again, I think I would try it with walnuts for more of a healthier option.

Serving: 6

Ingredients

1 ripe banana
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 cup + 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup chopped walnuts(or chocolate chips)

Instructions

In a medium size mixing bowl, mash the banana. Then stir in the egg, vanilla extract, and oil until combined. Then add all at once the flour, sugars, baking soda, and salt. Fold until combined. Then stir in the chopped walnuts/chocolate chips.

Spoon into your prepared (oiled or lined with parchment) baking vessels and bake at 325°F.

Regular size muffins or a baked donut pan will yield six and should be baked for 14-15 minutes.If you use mini loaf pans, this will yield three and should be baked for 18-20 minutes.

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