Just yesterday, October 9, 2010, 60 students with IT related courses from BIT-IC
participated in the Auza.net-sponsored Google Applications training. The BIT-IC students were
the first batch to be trained, and given their own Google Apps email.
The training started at around 9 o’clock in the morning at the BIT-IC Computer
Laboratory. Their speaker was Auza.net Technology Consultant Mr. Jerome Auza, assisted
by Rey Doblas and Jeffrey Jabines. The training included creating individual personnal email
accounts for the participants and the step-by-step instructions on how to efficiently use the
applications. The energy and excitement of the students were noticeable upon learning of the
many features of their email and upon the discovery of how group collaboration can be so easy.
Armed with what they have learned from the short yet very helpful training, the BIT-IC
students are now more keen on working with their teachers, classmates or project groupmates.
This goes to show that Google Applications do not prove itself useful in office settings, but
even more so in academic atmospheres. Auza.net will hopefully be conducting more trainings
regarding google applications in the future, so that more and more students can make use of
this technology.
The training was organized with the help of BIT-IC instructor Mr. Hercules Avenido, and
with special thanks to Mr. Neil Balite.