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)

Note: this is a dish I would like to cook.

The dish that I chose is poutine. The reason I chose this dish is that I simply really like it, I want to try making it someday so I figured that this would be a good chance to research it. Poutine is also a fairly simple dish so I can make it with no real problems as well.

I grew up with poutine, we used to have it all the time at a place named Belgium Fries. With this recipe I want to try and recreate the experience of eating their at home. And considering what’s happening right now, it’s a good time to try things at home. I’ve also learned a few things abot making poutine, and just poutine in general. Some examples are that the best cheese for poutine is mozzarella, and that the name poutine comes from the French slang for “mess”.

Actually making Poutine is simple as you only need three ingredients, fries, cheese curls, and gravy. You simply fry the fries, then put the cold cheese curls on it, then finally heat up the gravy and drizzle it over the fries and curls. Then you can put any toppings you may want and let it cool off if need be. That’s about all to it, very simple recipe.

But what’s interesting about poutine is that while it’s a simple dish, there are infinite ways to make it thanks to the amount of toppings that work well on it. You can put nearly anything on poutine and it will taste great on it. So I suggest that if anyone wants to make poutine, they should experiment as almost anything works with poutine.

Ingredients:

vegetable oil for frying

0.25 ounce of gravy

5 medium potatoes, cut into fries

2 cups of cheese curds

Recipe:

Heat oil in a deep fryer or skillet to 365 degrees F (185 degrees C). While the oil is heating warm your gravy.

Place the fries into the hot oil, and cook until light brown, about 5 minutes. You can cook them in batches If you need or want to.

Place the fries on a plate and sprinkle the cheese over them. Pour gravy over the fries and cheese, once it is sufficiently hot. Then serve.

I got help with the ingredients and recipe from https://www.allrecipes.com

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