Lancer Answers - How pcc students communicate

[male voice] Can you hear me now? [male sitting] Yup. [male standing] Good. [female student] We use social networking a lot. We use like Twitter, Facebook...not MySpace so much but... I believe Wallace also uses Four Square... [male student] Yeah. [female student] And we're on Tumblr as well. [female student] ...Facebook. [male student] Text messaging. [female student] Texting. Phone. [female student] If not texting, then on Facebook. [male student] Yeah, it have to be Facebook. [female student 2] Talk on the phone. [female student 1] Google as well. [Mr. Mackey] Good. [Kyle Broflovski] Mmmkay. [Mr. Mackey] Mmmkay. [Eric Cartman] Okay. [Mr. Mackey] Mmmkay. [female student] If not in class, through email. [female student] Email. [female student] Some professors even have their email setup to like their Blackberrys or their phone, so even if they're not at a computer, they'll get back to you pretty soon, but yeah, email is pretty big...or office hours. [female student] I do email my instructors that's my number one way of getting a hold of them. Most teachers don't...aren't good about answering their phones or replying to messages that you leave on their phones. [female student] My math professor, he has a Facebook account. Well, he made like a group account, so we get all our...all our homework on Facebook. [male student] Via email. [female announcer] Via email? And how does that work out for you? [male student] Sometimes it works out well, sometimes it doesn't. I think there's still sort of a...a...a rift in...a lot of the older generation moving into, utilizing more of the digital age and stuff. [male announcer] Do you find that a majority of your instructors do use email or don't? [female student 2] They do, or a majority of mine do at least. They're...they're really good at responding to my emails promptly and everything. [female student 1] Oh yeah. I like email better than office hours. [female student 2] Yeah. I...I like it too. It's...it's kind of intimidating sometimes to go into their office hours because I don't know. For me, it's intimidating, so email is just easier. [male instructor] On a simple voltaic cell, the positive electrode is made of copper. The negative, of zinc. [male student] My classmates, they have a tendency to utilize technologies better, so you can get a quick response from somebody if you, you know, text them, call them, send them an email. [male student] Pretty much through texting. [male announcer] Okay. [male student] I always text them. [female student] I'll ask them for an email, and then I'll ask them,"Oh, do you have a Facebook?" And then, we'll communicate on that. [male student] I would do the same thing 'cause sometimes you have classmates who you don't really hang out at school, but you really wanna some how contact them. It's either, you know, you text them or you ask for email, but the majority of the time its Facebook just because sometimes people don't want to give out their number, so you just hit me up on Facebook. [male student] Maybe it's something in the class that'll be interesting, and I'll look, you know, and give a smile, or... [male announcer] Do you... [male student] ...see if anything is weird, I'll widen my eyes. [town crier] Notice. Notice. Notice. Joyful spring news for the town. [female student 2] I'm really obsessed with looking at the bulletin board. Whenever I pass it, I always look. [female student] I'm a billboard/bulletin board reader. [female student] Oh well actually, my mom helps me a lot. She's coming here with me. [female announcer] Okay. [female student] So I...I...I really find out my stuff from her. [female announcer] So you get your stuff from her? [female student] She's like I'm still her little baby. [female announcer] Okay. [male student] Most of the communication that I get is from clubs and organizations. They're...they're probably the most reliable. [male student] A friend of ours would, you know, say something, "Oh did you hear about this?" You know, or something like that. [female student] Sometimes my professor would tell me, "Oh, you know..." about a specific event, and if not my professor then some...some of my friends would know about some of the events here. [male student] We would get like an event invite, and we'd always know what's going on via the event invites we get, so the Facebook is great. [female student] The Associated Students have a Facebook and things like that, and I add them because it's really easy to get information that way. [female announcer] That way. [female student] And it's...like they can invite you to events, and you can just see like the entire thing, and it's really eco-friendly versus all the posters and flyers on campus, and...the PCC website is like really handy because you can search your professors and look up their syllabus, and they can post up...like assignments, so if you miss class or something like that, and...or you don't necessarily need to print out like a 10-page syllabus. [female student] The only thing that I ever really look at is I'll go on the campus website and then just look up my registration date for classes. [female student 1] Oh. The website, where they have updates about the latest things, whether sports or, you know, anything that's going on with the school. They usually have it online. [male student] Like, go to the homepage or something like that, you know, or...or just ask a friend. [female student] Well, before a semester starts, I always go like to the counselor, and I always get this little thing, and it has like all the like important dates about everything. This is what I do just because I know that sometimes if you ask someone, they may not know the exact day, and this definitely has the exact dates, so I always use this. [male student] It's important to check PCC's website quite often. I follow PCC on Twitter for example, the library, the AS. PC President has a Twitter account. Mostly via Internet, I look at signs all around me. They tell me what's going on. It just takes mindfulness and awareness, and school's pretty good to tell you what's going on, and I...it just takes a little bit of effort going to website if you need to apply for financial aid or see what scholarships are coming up. It just doesn't come into your head. You have to go seek that information. It's all available to you. [male announcer] They are winning the battle of production...with ingenuity, initiative, with suggestions for a faster better way of getting the job done. [male student] I like to see them during the registration process actually have students enter in their own personal email addresses, not set up an email for them that they may not use, and also to give students the option to use text messages. If we had somebody on campus for like a Frequently Asked Questions type of database where... one of the things we're exploring with AS is to have like a... sort of like a bulletin board online where students could go post questions, and faculty and staff can all have access to that to try an answer people's questions. [female student 2] Weekly blast email, maybe. Just...just email all the students who signed up on like if they just submit their email to just say thing that maybe's happening this week and just special things, or else a lot of students won't know about it. I think that could really help. [female student] Maybe what they could do is if they have something online, but then that's up to people really to check the website, you know, where they can probably take like a "Things That I'm Interested In" survey or something, and then...I mean whether they want an email or a text or something about it. Then they can...they can get the information that way, kind of like customize for yourself. [female student] It would be cool if they had an email list. [female announcer] Email list. What would you like to get in that email? [female student] Just reminders, or "Hey! This is going on campus. You should check it out." You know, whatever. [female student] I guess emails. [female announcer] Okay, so what about emails? [male student] Yeah. [female student] Like sending emails, you know, telling people like what's going on. [female announcer] Reminders? [female student] Yeah reminders and things like that. I think that's really helpful too. [male student] Especially about the online classes. [female student] Yeah. [male student] Like if you forget a day and your a day off your ruined. [female student] Yeah. [female announcer] Yeah. [male student] You can't really anything about it because its your responsibility. [female announcer] Okay. [female student] Since a lot of people do check their emails and stuff, I think that's helpful. [female student 2] Just knowing about things, events, I think it would really help me and help other students participate more. [male student] There's a lot of opportunities available for communication on this campus, and it has sort of a dual purpose, in my eyes, that not only can we utilize it to disseminate more information from students, but it's also more sustainable to move away from paper and do things digitally.