CLASS NOTES

Community checklist

Does it satisfy a real need? Do its members learn more, have more fun, get more done or get support?

Does is have a clearly articulated purpose?

Is it clear about who belongs and who doesn’t?

Is there interaction between members?

Are there enduring relationships formed between members that go beyond the original reason for connecting?

Do they contribute, do they participate, do they work together to achieve the common purpose? Being an audience is not a community.

Do they feel responsibility for each other and the community at large?

Are there roles, responsibilities and jobs performed by the membership?

Is it self-policing? Do people censure or eject unruly or unreasonable members?

Are there guidelines, rules, or norms of behavior?

To be really sure that you’ve enabled a real community ask the following questions of your members.

Do they identify with the community? Does it reflect, in part ,who they are as an individual?

Do they have a sense of belonging?

Can they be who they really are without fearing rejection?

Do they have a sense of confidence, safety, even protection?

Do they feel part of something bigger than themselves?

Do they have a sense of purpose and meaning?

What is Community?
A community has historically been defined as a group of people organized around common values and social cohesion within a shared geographical location.

With the Internet, you don’t need the geographical location, so the opportunity for community has increased exponentially with the types of communities expanding in ways that have no analog in the real world. From offbeat brides to steampunk aficionados, entirely new communities can emerge in minutes around interests that may only exist or be possible in an online world.

Sociological:

Not only is the concept of a community a "construct" (model), it is a "sociological construct.". It is a set of interactions, human behaviors that have meaning, and expectations between its members. Not just action, but actions based on shared expectations, values and beliefs, and meanings between individuals.

SLIDE 1 (Overview of living on the Moon)
-Big Moon on slide and text in the middle

SLIDE 2 (Profile of the Moon)
-Descriptive images and captions

SLIDE 3
-Recent developments (embed video)

*Quotes about the moon at the bottom of each slide

-"I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum" George Bernard Shaw

-"War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull." Mark Twain

-"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return." Unknown

-“Man is now able to soar into outer space and reach up to the moon; but he is not moral enough to live at peace with his neighbor!” Sri Sathya Sai Baba