mybvc.ca Showcase

Showcase
Next Wednesday (November 28th) you will have the opportunity to learn all about the mybvc.ca portal and the Google Apps that work along with it. The showcase has been established to create awareness of the availability of the portal and the Google Apps for use by teachers and students to improve learning. The showcase will substantiate a dialogue of best practices and encourage further use and support of these applications.

Faculty and staff are invited for the morning session and are asked to register (lunch included); feel free to join us at any time - you don't need to stay for the entire morning. Students can drop by anytime in the afternoon without registering. Please let your students know about this free event!

Where to start
Interested in collaborative writing? Check out the exhibit on Google Drive. Want to know more about finding educational videos? Drop by the exhibit on YouTube. Curious about how to connect with learners outside the classroom? Chat with the experts at the Blogger and Groups exhibit. Click here to see information about all the booths and the day's schedule.

What is the mybvc.ca portal?
The portal provides information, announcements and resources to students 24 hours a day and is accessible with their official mybvc.ca email address. Google Apps, such as Gmail, Drive and Calendar, are available for free for students, with abundant file storage and easy sharing. Students can use the portal as their single sign-on to start using the apps right away, in an environment with which many are already familiar. In short, students can take full advantage of an online and mobile learning environment.

Faculty and staff can take advantage of students' connections to these tools. They can correspond with students, with Gmail and chat. They can send assignments, receive submissions, and reply with feedback, keeping track of these emails for future use as threaded conversations. Faculty can use Drive as a collaborative content management tool for course documents, such as Word, Excel and PDF files, with sharing and real-time mulit-user editing enabled. Faculty and staff can create calendars, for exams and events, to be shared with colleagues and students, made available on the web or Outlook. YouTube videos can be hosted and easily shared.  All of these tools are available free of charge as part of Google Apps for Education edition and can be managed by the college using a full suite of administration tools. Teachers can continue to work the way they currently do and do so more effectively

For more information on this event, please see the Foundational Curriculum website.