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)

The Core Competencies that best represent me as person is Personal Awareness & Responsibility. The reason for this is that I take accountability for my actions and don’t place blame upon my classmates for group activities. Back in February I had a group presentation for EFP Literary Studies and Writing 11. My group completed the presentation and one of the group members wanted to go back through it and add information to the presentation we didn’t already to get a better mark. The next day me and the group member got into a small argument, since they thought I said to not go back and add the information. At this point I was sure I did tell them to go back and add the information if they wanted. However, instead of putting the blame on them for not listening properly. I choose to take responsibility and get mad at them for not doing what I thought they were going to do. Along with this I also have strategies to help me deal with stress and staying on task for work. For dealing with stress, I either fidget my hands or excuse myself to go for a walk to calm myself down. While staying on task, I play music to help me stay focused and if working on my computer. I hide the bottom tab for shortcuts to not look at the time to stay focused. Finally, I set goals for myself and concentrate on trying to achieve my goals. A goal that I have in my life is to eradicate the spanking law in Canada. The law grants parents/caregivers the right to use reasonable physical punishment as a form of discipline for a child. Ever since I learned about this law, it has made me frustrated on how this not only legal, but how people view this as okay. Achieving this goal will be very hard to achieve and won’t happen any time soon from being fulfilled. I most likely won’t be able to achieve this goal before someone else does. However, I am okay with this because the point of this goal is to remove this unjust law from the legal system and not be the sole person to do this. I hope this demonstrates how this core competency best reflects me as a person.

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