Advice to Baruch College

Advice to Baruch College

You are hired by Baruch College to use new media to improve the College. What are some suggestions you would make using new media?

            There are almost an infinite number of possibilities that I could suggest to Baruch College when it comes to using new media to improve the college. I would like to start out by talking about what Baruch College would be able to do using social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Making pages on these sites for classes or departments may be a good way for Baruch College to link it’s faculty with it’s students. For instance, the Psychology department can make a Facebook page for all things psychology related. Professors can run the site and students can use the site to ask questions about the class structure or about psychology. Course links, sites, or other course related media can be uploaded to these sites and instead of downloading or searching for them, students can go right to the social media page and view the course-related material without worrying about downloading or scouring the web for information. Professors can even give important updates via social media sites along with whatever media or medium they choose to give updates with. They may find that many students check their Facebook before they check their email. Because new media is so prevalent, Baruch could even use blogs or wikis to be the medium by which course material or homework is organized and presented. Just like this class, assignments can be put into a blog and at the end of the semester, the student will have an organized site where all of their course material is listed perhaps making it easier to refer to notes or study.