Advice to Baruch College

There is a lot of things people can do on these new media sites. They can even benefit a school. If I was hired by Baruch College to use new media to improve the college, I would have many ideas. The article "Open Source Textbook Program Expanding in Coming Months" by Andrea Agardy talks about a textbook that is free and can be updated whenever it needs to. As of right now, students can pay hundreds of dollars for textbooks that are outdated. In order to fix this, there needs to be a whole new book published with updated information, with the open source textbooks, the edits can be done right away. This is happening yet, but it is in the process and hopefully will happen soon. This is taking place because of the new media and the things that we can now do. Another way to use new media is the way I use it in my class. We use a blog to do work and a wiki to do a group project. We can connect to each other through these websites. Teachers can use new media to post homework and school notes. More students will probably enjoy the class more if it's on a new media website. If the teacher is using the "it" thing, students could be more attracted to doing the work. For end of the year projects, the professors can use these new media sites. For example making a page that would attract people to the school or maybe coming up with an idea for a new app for phones. There are so many ways college classrooms can use new media to make it more interesting and up to date with the time.