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)

Collaborating

My academic behavior used to be best described as profile 3 from the collaborating competency. This is because in the first semester, the few projects that I had, both mainly in social studies, and biology, mainly entailed me following the layout/plan that my other group members had created to complete the project. However, I’ve found that this semester, I’ve shown a lot more autonomy and responsibility in formulating how to collaborate with my peers in class effectively. An example of this is the 4-month-long inquiry project, where we were tasked with conducting research, experimenting, interpreting results, and more. Throughout this process, another group member and I had been putting more effort into keeping our project on track. Which ultimately ended with the project being completed well and on time.

Critical Thinking and Reflective Thinking

This second semester, I have been taking both Physics and Pre-calculus 12. Throughout the semester, I would say that I have seen significant growth in my abilities to critically think and reflect on how math is used in real life. Whether this had been the Doppler effect, and how when I hear an ambulance coming towards me, the sounds seem different, or how logs are used to determine pH levels, how old materials, etc. Because of all these concepts and ideas, I’ve learned over the semester, I’d argue I’ve gone from profile 3 to profile 4 or even 5.

Alberto Baseghi, Grade 11

June 8th, 2024

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