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 the many years of my high school education I have experienced a confident amount of challenges that have shaped me into who I am today. One of the core competencies I display in a classroom environment is communication. When participating in group projects I offer ideas, assistance, and an open mind to construct proper discussion amongst my group members. An example of ideal communication would be in my Social Justice 12 class where many controversial and unnormalized topics are discussed. Recently my group partner and I had been assigned a group project on Incel Culture which we had the majority to do in class but partly at home. We had to review the notes, the powerpoint slides, and the script in a matter of a week. These steps were thankfully done miraculously because of our ability to open mindedly communicate our differences and strengths. This enabled us to engage the audience not only because of the information we had but because of how my partner and I communicated in a professional manner during the presentation. Through this example was I able to correctly represent my capability to communicate with my peers.

A second core competency I have delivered is personal and social responsibility. My guitar 12 class has a mixture of beginners and intermediates, and as a comfortable guitarist. I believe it is a given opportunity to offer assistance for my peers who are struggling to adapt and set their foundations to succeed in Guitar 11/12. Since there is only one teacher guiding this course and it becomes apparent that students are struggling to show progress; it is necessary to offer assistance because a student teacher is sometimes preferred. Overall, personal and social responsibility has been reflected in my ability to empathize in any circumstance and use my role as a student to treat others with respect and sensitivity.

Chloe’s Blog

My Charles Best Digital Portfolio

Your Charles Best Digital Portfolio

Recent Posts

Core Competencies