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 this assignment, i decided to make something that i really liked whenever one of my friends made for me or my family; Banana bread. Its probably one of my favorite foods, probably because to me it tastes really good with Chocolate chips and i have a big sweet tooth. I chose to prepare this dish because i really like banana bread and it would be fun to make something with my mom, who helped me during it. Some of the ingredients i had to get from my grandmother since we didn’t have them where i was, like the Bananas and the chocolate chips i wanted to add. We also didn’t have enough sugar for one of the batches, so we had to use less for the one in the more solid tin.

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As you can see, I took this picture as i was mixing all the ingredients together. This recipe was given to my family by my Grandma on my moms side who bakes, and there are a bunch of different recipes inside of the recipe book. I never made this banana bread before with this recipe before, so i had my mom to help me make it. We each made our separate batches, and i watched my mom do the step first before i did it so i knew what to do based off of what she was doing.

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Me and my mom both made separate batches, like i had said before. I added more chocolate chips to mine, And both of the eggs we put in ours were different colors. My batch that i made is in the clear container and the one my mom made was in the solid container

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The banana bread turned out really well, and the batch that i had made was basically gone by the time i went to get my other piece. I also had given a piece of the banana bread to my Grandma, and she said it tasted really good. Since the banana bread in the solid tin had less sugar in it, we added less chocolate chips into that one so if anyone wanted anything less sweet they could eat that one.

The recipe for the banana bread called for:

1/2 cup of Butter or margarine

1 cup of Sugar

2 Eggs

1 cup of mashed very ripe bananas (3 medium)

1 3/4 cups of all purpose flour

1 tsp of Baking Soda

1/2 tsp of baking power

1/2 tsp of salt

And 1 cup of chopped walnuts, but instead of this i decided to put 3/4 cups of chocolate chips. you can make the batch with or without them.

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