Discussion Post One

Today in class we looked at communities of practice. It was not until after class I started to think about the communities of practice that I was involved in. I went to my next class and thought of an example that I had recently become apart of. I decided to join Greek Life here at the University of Arizona. I decided to join the sorority of Kappa Alpha Theta. To check out the Facebook page, click  here . I think that this is a great example of a community of practice because it is something that all members decided to be apart of. Earlier in class, we talked about how some sports teams are not communities of practice because they are rather selected by someone else to be put on a team instead of everyone choosing to be on it together. I think that a sorority or a fraternity is a good example of a community of practice because every single individual that joined is choosing to be there.                                                       Photo courtesy of Wikipedia Commons

Even during my first class in E-society 211, I feel like I learned a lot of new things about my major (e-society) and about social media that I didn't know before. I am super excited for this class and to start learning more about online communications and collaborations. The first article that we were assigned for reading was all about online collaboration. The article focused on trying to come up with a more accurate definition for what online collaboration is, and isn't. There are certain words that explain it better than others. An important piece of understanding online collaboration is that social media (Facebook, Instagram) and so on... are not online collaborations. There are too many people that joined for too many different reasons. The definition of an online collaboration is the purpose of people coming together for one certain reason, or for a certain topic. One factor that the article pointed out is that just because you are sharing content online, it does not mea