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)

Today in Chemistry 11 we ran a total of 4 experiment exploring water polarity.

Paper Chromatography

In this experiment we had a piece of paper with food coluring on it dipped into water. We watched the water go up the piece of paper and take the colouring with it. I used green food colouring so I also got to see it split into yellow and blue.

The food colouring didnt go up all the way with the water. This is because the paper and the water were fighting over bonding with the food colouring. In the end the paper won as the water kept goin leaving the food colouring behind.

Oil, water and soap mix

In this experiment we put some water into a test tube to which we added oil. The oil and water stayed seperated even after tyring to mix them together.

After I added soap to the tube before mixing the soap stayed inbetween the oil and water. After mixing the consistency of the soap and oil was snotty.

Lycopodium Powder

I covered the surface of a dish with water which I then sprinkled a layer of lycopodium powder over. The powder stayed on top of the powder. I then took a q-tip dipped in soap and put it in the cencter of the dish. The powder repelled rapadly away from the soap to the edges of the dish.

Water Tension

Not much to say about this one. The water was able to keep its bond between eachother even when there wasn’t anything supporting it from the sides.

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