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)

Personal Awareness and Responsibility
-Well-Being

-Self-Determination

-Self-Regulation

This year, I really attempted to work on my sense of self-determination and self-regulation, as I’ve never been a very independent or proud person. To accomplish this, I made sure I took an important role in a club I’ve participated in all year—DnD Club. I became a co-leader of sorts of the club and host the meetings on Thursdays the majority of the time. The main experience I want to highlight, however, would be the stall our club ran for the Miracle Movement Club. I ended up doing the majority of the planning for the stall alongside another member and ran it during my off-block, block 2. I took the time to plan out a game for people who arrived at the stall to play, even if the game didn’t get any players. I think this experience of planning and temporarily manning the stall helped me become more confident in my own abilities and aided my sense of responsibility and self-regulation in addition to the entire year’s experience. My goal is to continue building that sense of self-determination.

Alongside this experience, I attempted to be more helpful towards others and heading many group projects to further bolster that sense of self-determination. I spearheaded a large project in my CLE10 class, which is another great example of self-determination even if that project hasn’t been graded yet. Woodwork 11 is another good example due to the independent nature of the elective. Taking Woodwork 9 last year was a far more dependent experience with set projects that you could do. Woodwork 11 is a completely different course in comparison which lets you pick which projects you want to make and take initiative in planning and creating them.

All in all, I hope to continue pursuing this core competency and strengthen my knowledge of it even more heading into grade 11.

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