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?

I think Baruch is pretty much well connected through faculty, students and resources that it has to offer. But of course there is always more to be done.

First, I would make like an obligation "advancement courses" that every professor, that is to be hired or is already a part of faculty at Baruch, would have to take additionally to advance their subjects with communications through new media and technology. This will introduce new and advancing technology communication, and allow every professor to continuously be informed and given training with new media. This is very important, because if the student are expected to know, learn and advance from their professors in today's technological society than every professor should be up to date with technology and know how to use and teach their classes using these new media.

I would advice them to set up every class room with all advanced technology and make professors use visual data, internet etc. Visual perceiving advances students memory and keeps us engaged in the classroom and many professors, believe it or not, still just have plain lecturing classes!

Second, I have to mention that my PSY 1001 class this semester has been introduced to a new book that has been custom made for Baruch faculty and student and allows amassing learning techniques that of course involve internet. Our professor can now record his lectures and post them on line through a specially design program that allows students, that have purchased the book to stay connected on very level. Also this program offers online interactions with lectures, it has an uploaded eBook, and it has various quizzes and practice modes that allow student to interact and advance their study performance and most of all make them interesting. I would defiantly advice Baruch to take this aspect of learning and new technology into the consideration, because this not only that it competes with new media aspects but advances student's learning and makes it more interesting.

Third, one of the things that I feel is lacking is communication between students, so I would try to create different social networks to advance the communication among students that have similar interests.

My New Media Class - So Far

What kinds of technologies are part of the new media? How important is the Internet to the new media? Why and how are the new media replacing and / or enhancing the old media?

In my New Media class at Baruch College, I have been introduced to various aspects of communication, social networking, evolution of technology, etc. It has been an mind opening experience in every aspect of this subject. Even though I was and still am very actively involved into the technology usage of today's world, through this class I realized how much more can be done in a sense developing easier communication and enhancing our performance in every day life, and in the business aspect of our careers.

We gained knowledge by talking and examining the historical aspects of media and technology such as broadcast communication through television and radios that is still part of new media, but is in general rapidly being replaced by new visions of technology.

Internet plays a major role of new media, in such way that makes this world much smaller, and easily connected throughout the planet. For many, if not for all, aspects of new media including social networking sites, gaming, virtual world, UGC all these systems are considered new media and are drastically dependable on internet connection.

These technologies are developing so fast, that sometimes I have a feeling that as soon as i learn to use one application, a compliantly new and advance one comes around. This is a never ending cycle in which our participation is necessary to benefit, both, us and technology.