The Next New Thing

There are so many new media become so popular nowadays, and use by large amount of people, such as Social Networking sites, YouTube, Blogs, and Second Life. If we combine all four different new media together into one site, I believe it could be a very useful tool for education, especially for online courses, because we don’t see each other in class or face to face. Social networking sites can be use for professors post their announcement or assignment. They also can use for improve communication between classmates and professors, in which everyone in the class can find base information about each other. YouTube can be use for professors to upload their demonstration or video if necessary to help students more clear about their lecture. Blogs could be a place where student submit their assignment. And Second Life could be a tool for professor to train their student in virtual world about the things that happen in real world. Therefore, they just need to access one site and can do all they thing they want to do instead of go to few different sites.

In addition, if in that site, also merge with news service will be much better. So we can up to dates news about our environment. Also in that news service, it has different sections, such as news about business, political, science and others can separate from each other. It is easy for people to choose what kind of news they want to read about. For example, we are in business college, so people might pay more attention on the business news, so they can just click on the title of business news, they all the news about stocks, wall street will come out.

In this way, we can do maximum things together just in one sites. And in that sites not just for communication, we also can read different information around our society and experience them.