Standards for Internet Safety

1) When making a social network profile, make it private so only the people in your network can see your profile. If it is a public profile, then anyone on the internet can see your pictures, read your interests, and find out most things about you.
2) Do not put up pictures that you do not want anyone to see. Be careful what pictures you connect to your account because you can be identified in them in case there is something wrong.
3)Keep your address and phone number off your profile. Your friends should know where you live and your phone number so there is no need to have it online open to the public. If they are truly your friend, they can contact you.
4) In terms of your image management, be careful with what you post because you do not want people to get the wrong idea from your picture.

Community

According to Wikipedia, community is a group of interacting people, possibly living in close proximity, and often refers to a group that shares some common values, and is attributed with social cohesion within a shared geographical location, generally in social units larger than a household. This pretty much means that a community is a group of people who gather together and feel the same way about certain things. A community can be the people living in the area of a local high school, or huge fans of a certain sports team, or people coming together for a peaceful protest. Going to a community event is a great way to meet new people who have the same interests as you.


http://cec.vcn.bc.ca/cmp/whatcom.htm
This is a link that describes community in much more detailed levels.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2T3evdj8xA&feature=relmfu
This is a youtube video which explains what community building is and how to accomplish it.

Resources for Defining Culture

1. http://www.culturalsavvy.com/culture.htm
This channel gives an in depth analysis of culture, what it means, cultural differences, how to identify them, how to manage them, how to solve them.

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai9pRv_t3y8
This is a video that does a good job at explaining what culture is and includes bits of many different types of cultures.

3. http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/socst/grade3/whatisa.html
This site explains the debate of nature vs. nurture, what causes cultural change, cultural formation, culture vs. civilization and race and culture.

4. http://anthro.palomar.edu/culture/culture_1.htm
This explains what culture is, the layers of culture, the comparison between culture and society, and if culture is only limited to humans.

5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture
This is the Wikipedia page explaining what culture is. It describes early modern discourses, 20th century discourses and also cultural change.

4 Tools for CMC

C4LPT Blog-This is an online blog so there is no face to face communication only communication through technical devices.

Prezi-Collaboration is the collective development of information and this was used when all the students personally edited the prezi page. People can actively participate by editing the blog.

Twitter-Social interaction was used on Twitter. Twitter allows people to form networks and people can expand on ideas that are posted. Active participation is also used because people can share their own ideas. Twitter is also a great news source so collaboration is a type of interaction because people can gain a lot of knowledge.

Blogger-Active participation is used since people can create their own blogs and write about their own ideas. On blogger people can personalize everything, from what is written on the blog to what the background is to what pictures are on it.