New Users
What can I do at the BPC Portal?
Visitors are able to...
- Engage with the BPC Community
Learn about the latest research in computing education and computing diversity;
promising practices, K-12 standards, professional opportunities; and innovative
resources to revitalize or broaden participation in your course or even your curriculum.
- Search the BPC Digital Library
Search resources via the "Advanced Search"
located on the left navigation menu, or
through the "Quick Search" located at the top of each page.
- Submit new resources to the BPC Digital Library Database
Registered users can submit resources to the database for others' to discover and
use. New entries will be reviewed by the BPC Associate Editors.
- "Bookmark" favorite BPC Digital Library Resources in "My Workspace"
Registered users also have the ability to "Bookmark" favorite resources from the BPC Digital Library, allowing
them to be easily recovered later on. Build your own collection of BPC resources today!
- Write Comments and Review on others' BPC Digital Library Resources
Review teaching resources that have been submitted by computing educators and
program stakeholders, and provide your own comment on the BPC resources to a wider
community.
How do I use the BPC Digital Library?
The BPC Digital Library provides outreach, teaching and other educational resources to
the K-12 Education and Higher Education communities whose goal is to increase
participation in computing.
- Search for Learning Resources.
You can search for learning resources by using
either a "Quick Search" or an "Advanced Search". The "Quick Search" bar (found in the
header bar of the BPC DL) allows you to immediately search the entire collection of
resources associated with Broadening Participation in Computing. For a more tailored
search, use the "Advanced Search" to specify the results of your search with greater
detail: search for resources within specific disciplines, tailored to ranges of grade
levels, and more. Here you will have the choice of expanding your search beyond BPC
topics and collections to include all collections in our hosting digital library, the
Engineering Pathway.
- Select relevant resources from Search Results.
The Search Results provide
information about each resource, including their respective discipline, resource type,
catalog source, and an excerpt from the resource's description.
- View Resource Details and Access Resource direction from provider.
The resource
catalog entry linked from the search results provides specific details about the
learning resource, as well as a direct link to access it. The BPC DL often does not host
the learning resource, so this link may lead away from the BPC Portal page.
- Check for Permissions, Copyrights, and Fees.
The majority of the resources in the
BPC DLs databases are not owned by the BPC DL. Therefore, all copyrights and permissions
are held by the content's original creators. Sometimes copyright and permission
information has been provided and is listed in the resource catalog entry.
- Use, Link to, or Download Resources.
You can use the BPC DL resources by sharing
the URL with students or colleagues, or saving it for personal reference. Animations,
videos, and other multimedia items can often be downloaded for use on individual
computers or for inclusion into presentation software such as PowerPoint.
