Our Class Wiki

I have yet to actually put my information that I have been researching on Wiki.  However, my term paper I wrote helped me gain a lot of the information that I am going to use towards it.  I am going to contain many website address' so I could prove correct facts, I am also going to put several examples of the how certain people (scholarly) feel about the information that I am going to insert. 

P2P File Sharing

File sharing involves distributing or providing access to digitally stored information, an example would involve computer programs.

P2P File sharing is the same thing as file sharing, however, the difference is it is strictly peer to peer.

Some examples of P2P file sharing would involve bulletin board systems, which is used in many universities.  (BlackBoard).  Another would be Hotline and chat rooms, developed for peers to communicate with other peers.

An article that contains information like the above can be found at this link:
Take Advantage of P2P - not fear it by Jamie King, New Media Age. London: Nov 22, 2007. pg. 19. http://www.nma.co.uk/Articles/35925/Content+producers+should+take+advantage+of+P2P%2c+not+fear.html

Privacy

The issues of privacy and confidentiality when talking about new media is a very popular topic.  Privacy has become less of a problem because of all the settings that are available.  However, subjecting yourself to social media in some ways means the topic that the person is speaking about, they don't want private.  Although photos, posts, and messages can be private to the public, they are not private to everyone within the web.  People that use social media understand that making sure that the things they don't want the world to know are nowhere near the web and the social media sites.  Although there are privacy settings there are ways behind and around everything. 

Advice

If I was hired by Baruch College to use new media to improve the college I would use it to benefit the students.  I would bring Youtube into the classroom more.  I think Youtube is a place where people of all ages are getting their point across in their own way.  I think teaching students different topics by the words of other students are a very successful way of teaching.  Sometimes a textbook is not always a good way to get a point across to the students within a classroom.  Video's on Youtube will allow students to get excited about learning, cause them to pay attention more, and make the classroom a more entertaining place.