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)

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Connecting Core Competencies

In this assignment, I used my creative thinking skills by drawing a portrait of myself, carving it onto a piece of plastic, and then printing it successfully. I needed to think about how I wanted my print to turn out in the end, and I was able to achieve successful results. What I wanted was a clear appearance in the final product, and it turned out great.

Learning from Digital Tools

I learned how to use a platform called Canva to create a presentation that delivered my ideas for the assignment very well. Some of the benefits I found while using Canva were that it offers many different types of transitions depending on your preferences, as well as a variety of template options to choose from. When selecting a template, I liked how I could search for a theme I wanted, and Canva would provide me with many templates matching that theme. With a friend’s help, I learned how to get the embed code to paste my presentation into this post. There were not many challenges for me since Canva had clearly organized tools, and I did not need to use any complex editing features.

Application in Other Courses

I can use Canva in other courses when I need to create presentations. For example, in middle school, I had to make a PowerPoint presentation for social studies, where Canva could have been used. While PowerPoint did not include as many options as Canva, Canva provided a wide variety of designs and templates, making it hard to choose just one. Canva would be especially helpful if presentations require different types of designs, making them visually more appealing. Lastly, learning how to get an embed code was a very helpful skill for me, as it allowed me to display the presentation without requiring others to click on any links, making it more convenient.

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