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)

1. Communication

In food studies 12, communication is one of the most important parts of competencies that you need. Working in a group can be difficult, sometimes the group won’t always agree on certain things. Communication used to be a big problem for me, I rarely used to be able to communicate with my peers. I fixed this problem by asking questions and hearing out my group members to see what they had to say instead of cutting people off and causing arguments. The outcome of me doing this, was very helpful and helped my group and I get a lot more work done sufficiently. For example, when our class was making lasagna, two of my group members started arguing because we did not communicate and did some of the steps in the wrong order. This caused a problem in our project, however we all remained calm and talked about how we could fix this problem.

2. Creative thinking

I use creative thinking for multiple things in life, like hockey, working in a team environment, and school. Creative thinking is very important because in order to do new things, you have to think differently. Creative thinking is one of the most key aspects that you need in life. Growing up, my parents always told me that I was very creative. For example, every Christmas I would ask for legos, and I would build these legos a different way than the instructions told me to and would build a lot of cool things. I feel that creative thinking is one of the most powerful competencies to help me reach my goals, inside and outside of school.

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