TCS 701: ICT in Organizations
Research Paper:
For this research paper, I took a look at a social networking site that I use on a daily basis. Facebook is a social networking site that I use to connect with my friends and family. Recently, I have had more professors and teachers talk about using it so I thought it would be an interesting topic for research. I learned a lot about Facebook while doing this project. Many Universities and professors are already using Facebook to stay connected with students. It is a logical fit because you can incorporate videos, links and general course content into a Facebook page. And why not use a site that students are already using on a daily basis? There were many negative viewpoints to this approach as well and I came to understand more about the downfalls to Facebook. There are certain aspects that need to be watched out for. All in all, this paper gave me insight into how Facebook can and should be used in Education. Additionally, it got me thinking about how it could be used in business and the company that I work for has now been using Facebook to connect to our audience. The business use of Facebook would be something I would like to study further in the future.
Presentation:
The presentation I did for this course was based off of my research paper. I had to present the information in 5 minutes and record the presentation. The layout and content of the presentation had to be very succinct and to the point. I learned how to narrow down a very long research paper into a short presentation. That helped me learn to focus on the very important parts and still present it in an informative way. I know I will be doing many more presentations though out my college and work career and this was good practice for that.
For this research paper, I took a look at a social networking site that I use on a daily basis. Facebook is a social networking site that I use to connect with my friends and family. Recently, I have had more professors and teachers talk about using it so I thought it would be an interesting topic for research. I learned a lot about Facebook while doing this project. Many Universities and professors are already using Facebook to stay connected with students. It is a logical fit because you can incorporate videos, links and general course content into a Facebook page. And why not use a site that students are already using on a daily basis? There were many negative viewpoints to this approach as well and I came to understand more about the downfalls to Facebook. There are certain aspects that need to be watched out for. All in all, this paper gave me insight into how Facebook can and should be used in Education. Additionally, it got me thinking about how it could be used in business and the company that I work for has now been using Facebook to connect to our audience. The business use of Facebook would be something I would like to study further in the future.
Presentation:
The presentation I did for this course was based off of my research paper. I had to present the information in 5 minutes and record the presentation. The layout and content of the presentation had to be very succinct and to the point. I learned how to narrow down a very long research paper into a short presentation. That helped me learn to focus on the very important parts and still present it in an informative way. I know I will be doing many more presentations though out my college and work career and this was good practice for that.