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: CampusPress 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)

Communications

In English 10, we did literacy circles where we would discuss things that happened in the book Indian horse, which was an excellent example of communication because I demonstrated that I could explain my thoughts about the book and my perspective with others. When the others present what they think I engage and try to connect the book, to me, and the world. I’ve grown the most in my communications since we would do this every week, and this helped me figure out what I needed to improve for the nest discussion and eventually by the last literacy circles it was the smoothest discussion we had and most engaging.

Creative Thinking

Next, I will focus on developing my communication competency especially while presenting because I feel like I need to present in a more organized way rather than jumbling everything up. I also must work on my volume when presenting because sometimes I am to quite without realizing. Lastly, I need to work on my fluidity because I say umm and stutter a lot.

In Socials 10, I did this captivity where we had to make a journal as if we were a soldier in the war which was a great example of creative thing because I demonstrated that I could develop. The ideas of another people by trying to think out of the box and in the perspective of the soldier. I knew the circumstances but the emotion I had to analyze and create on my own based on the circumstances. I also did an activity where we had to demonstrate what happened in the Holocaust by making a poster and representing it by drawing which I believe is an are I need to improve my critical thinking because I find it difficult to visualize who to layout all my thoughts with out writing it out. I also had to figure out how to use all the space which often conflicted with the symbols I wanted to add.

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