Advice

Before we get into how we could use new media to improve the school we should look at a brief definition on what is new media. New media is constantly changing from the increase in technology so it's hard to define. But if I was to sum it up it would be a type of technology that allows people to come together, share information and work together.

Following the corporate idea of using Twitter to update their stakeholders, the school can create a Twitter account to update the students on closing, holidays and other emergencies.  This will create a conversation between the initial school and the questioner, but then others can help and reply to others as well, lessening the burden on the faculty replying to the students.  The next thing the school can implement is some type of internal peer-to-peer system where students can get access to applications, class notes, lectures etc. Having all the information on some server reduces the paper usage from printing all things that would eventually be outdated and reprinted.  This follows the idea of just-in-time production.  Another thing the school can do is create some type of customizable forum.  The forum itself will contain subsections that will contain everything from classes, to student organizations, to departments etc.  In order to post within each subsection the moderator will have to set the settings on who's able to post what within each section.  For example the "Careers Center" might let all students post withing their subsection.  Then the professors might only allow his/her students post within that section.  Now end users can customize how they want to see the information on the forum.  For example a person might put all the "discussion board" threads form all their classes on the homepage because there are frequent updates. Then the user might put new assignments on the top corner so they can see all the new work without missing the deadlines.  I feel this is a good thing because this allows students to get all their information in one place.  An added benefit would be to make this viewable through various devices this way people can have access to the information whenever/wherever.