Blog: Advice

There are many ways new media can be used to improve college experience for professor's and students. One way would be professors making a YouTube video of their lecture slides and voice recording as materials for online/hybrid courses. This can really help because just reading lecture slides might be confusing, so adding a voice recording of explanation would definitely help and people generally learn better with both visual and listening.

Another way is for every student and professor to have a Facebook account for college use only. Every student will then be invited to a group by each of their professors so that the group is organized into every class/section. All materials, announcements, and grades would be posted to the group and things not related to the class won't be there. People can also share information in case anyone missed anything during class. This is definitely better than Blackboard because people tend to check social media more than Blackboard. Social media also have notification while blackboard won't unless you are logged in.

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