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)

I chose to prepare a coffee cake because I know that my mom really likes coffee cakes and was already asking me to make her one so she could try it. I did not need to overuse or underuse and the amount of any ingredient because I had all the ingredients that you needed to make the coffee cake. It was quite easy for me. I simply made the coffee cake that we made in cooking class and I think it is a good thing that I chose to do the coffee cake because when we were making it in class, my partner and I had kind of messed up the recipe, so it was good for me to make the recipe properly. I also did make a couple changes to the recipe, one of the main ones being that I simply had added more brown sugar to the toppings than you were supposed to add because my mom likes sweet things so I thought that it would be good to make the cake a bit sweeter and to test out if it would taste good. It turned out amazing because the cake itself wasn’t too sweet but the toppings were a good amount of sweet, so they both went well with each other. When I finished the cake, I gave it to my family members which consisted of my dad, mom, sister, grandmother, and me. My mom and dad really liked it, so did my grandma. My sister adored it. She had multiple slices, almost finishing the entire thing! I really liked how well the cake turned out, it tasted very good in my opinion too. While cooking this time, I learned that it’s always good to try a recipe again that didn’t go quite exactly like how you wanted the first time you tried it. I fixed the mistakes I made the first time baking the cake and paid close attention to what I was doing. I also do not have any photos of me baking the cake because this was something I already baked a while ago.

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