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)

Communication:

In my career and life connections twelve class we had an assignment where communication was important for not only completion but a clean and clear assignment to submit at the end. Therefor the assignment was a perfect choice for the communication competency reflection. During my last core competencies reflection last year, I wrote about how I wanted to improve my communication skills, so this year I have been doing exactly that. The assignment in CLC12 had multiple steps that required communication, but the step I feel required the most communication and helped me improve that competencies myself was the interview step. In the interview step we had to provide evidence, a plan, any changes to the original proposal and communicate to further those ideas during the interview. I got a good mark on the interview, and it reflects my growth in the communication core competency. I was able to expand and respond to my ideas and teacher’s questions allowing me to end up with a clear and next step ready assignment clearly and fluently. After seeing results in my improvement of communication in only a year, the next core competency I want to improve on is personal and social skills.

This is a screenshot of my plan going into the interview with the additions and slight changes I made during the interview by communicating to improve plan even more. The changes I made during and after the interview are highlighted in yellow. This screenshot clearly demonstrates how much communication can change and better an assignment.

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