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: Edublogs 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)

This year the core competencies I’ve worked the most have been communication and critical thinking. I worked on my critical thinking this year by playing chess in chess class and playing in our class tournaments. Chess requires me to always be critical thinking because you need to be able to make a good smart move in a quick amount of time. The tournaments we play really helped me get better at thinking quick because we play with timers so you only have a specific amount of time to make your moves so you don’t want to waste it. I’ve learned to plan ahead better through playing chess because it forces you to think ahead about your moves and plan them in advance so you have a good attack. One project i did that helped me critically think was in chess class when we needed to break down a famous game and explain it to the class in a presentation. I had to break down the openings, early, mid, and end game so i needed to critically think in order to break the game down and explain it well. This is the presentation chess presentation

The thing that helped me with my commination skills this year was working a cyclone Taylor sports. While i worked there i was helping customers try on equipment, helping them choose the right gear, sharpen their skates, and helped check them out. While doing this you are constantly communicating with the customer to make sure you know what they want and what will be right for them. I was constantly having to help customers and co workers so having good communication skills really helped with that. I would also constantly be communicating with my co workers because we were short staffed and would often be busy so we would all be running around the store to make sure we had people where they needed to be and all the stores needs were met.

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