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)

Obtain, interpret and present information.

I show this Core competency in my classes when I am doing projects. Earlier this year, I had a very big Science project where I had to do an inquiry on space. When I did this project I was challenged in many aspects. I had to find reliable sources to research my information and learn from these sources. I had to interpret this information so I could properly understand the concepts fully. To present I needed to fully understand what I was learning. When I presented I was comfortable and confident because I knew the subject well.

This core competency is very important because I need to be able to do this throughout my schooling, but also possibly in the future when I have a full time job. I can make sure I put in a lot of effort and try my best so I can fully accomplish everything I am trying to do.

2. Self-Determination

I show this core competency in many aspects. For school I make sure I do all my homework and work of projects myself. I do not need other people to get me to do my work. The same applies for sports. When I am determined and driven to do something I will do it.

I think this core competency is important because you need to be able to work on your own without other people making you work. Now we live with our parents and such and have them, teachers and coaches making sure we are doing our work, but in a lot of cases in the future we won’t have this. Our parents will have less of an impact on our lives when we are older and same with teachers. Also coaches and such may not even be in our lives depending on the path we choose. it is very important that we are self-determined and self-driven.

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