What is a Community?

A community as a whole is a a diverse body of people, either large or small who come together for a common goal/activity. They can be brought together by a common source of discussion or likeness, culture or even where you live. Communities can be diverse but most have a targeted group, sometimes even exclusive to a group. The communities can be a silent group who stick together for a common goal/activity but aren't vocal, or ones that vocally discuss their goal/activity. Communities can be exclusive and/or you can be booted for an activity counterproductive of the community.

Communities such as a Sports forum come together to talk sports, some may live in the same area as it may be a team related forum but it also may be a national forum where alot of people discuss. A University community may be a little different because not everyone is vocal in the community, you all have solidarity towards a common goal of getting ready for the work world but not everyone is showing it. Flunking or doing something illegal can get you kicked out of a university, so communities have the right to do that.

Defining Culture

What is Cutlure?: Michigan State University
http://studyabroad.isp.msu.edu/studenthandbk/crossing_cultures/culture.html
A thorough definition of Culture from the Study Abroad department of Michigan State University. Also introduces the Iceberg concept of Culture and Culture Shock.

What Do We Mean By Culture?: Mesa Community College
http://www.mesacc.edu/dept/d10/asb/what_culture.html
An anthropologists look at culture and how they define it. Basically they portray it as what groups of people do.

Culture Definition: Texas A&M
http://www.tamu.edu/faculty/choudhury/culture.html
The faculty of Texas A&M came up with a bunch of definitions of Culture, as well introduce a bunch of theories related to culture.

What Culture is: IUPUI
http://www.iupui.edu/~mstd/a103/culture%20and%20anthro.html
Another look at culture through an anthropologists eyes, but this time takes it straight from an Anthropology book.

The culture of CULTURE: Columbia
http://varenne.tc.columbia.edu/hv/clt/and/culture_def.html
A bunch of different definitions compiled by a Columbia student from famous people over the years since the 1800's. Also shows what these definitions lead to in the future for culture research.

Analyzing the 4 tools

The C4LPT blog was one way and didn't include much interaction. It was just a person feeding information about tools on the internet.

The level of interactivity on Prezi was two way but I don't think many people were using it that way, the interaction between people was mostly people messing with things on the presentation. Other than that it was just people trying to learn how to type and put their tools on there.

Twitter had a lot of interactivity, it was a little simpler than Prezi so people were more apt to look at others posts and their own. Twitter also included other people following each other, so more interactivity.

Blogger is two way communication, you can comment on people's post as well as people feed you information. It's not as interactive as Twitter though.