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)

In P.E., we had a project where we were asked to teach another class using our oral French skills. My partner and I chose to lead a “Fitness Friday” activity. It was a challenge to communicate clearly and confidently in French so that everyone could understand. I also found it difficult to motivate the students and to get their attention when starting the activity. Most students, not wanting to have a fitness day, were talking or not doing the exercise properly. I found it helpful to go over to the stations and remind them to be on task as well as to talk to their teachers to find out what they do to get the students’ attention and motivation.

Our plan was also to use the inside of the gym, though we ended up doing our warm-up outside and then transition into the gym. This took much more time than originally given and we had to adapt our exercise time.

Despite these challenges, I believe my partner and I were well prepared. We created a clear lesson plan, communicated with the teachers in advance, and practiced our instructions before the day of the activity. On the day of the lesson, I felt that both the student teachers evaluating us could have provided clearer expectations for the class, and it would have helped if we had reviewed those expectations together beforehand.

Overall, I learned a lot about communicating in another language and leading a group. This experience helped me improve my confidence and ability to adjust when things don’t go as planned.

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