Assessment 7

“Our communities today are formed around issues of identity and shared values; they are not necessarily place-based” (Pallof, 1996).  The opening statement defines the most benefit of online communities.  Though some face-to-face communities are not necessarily place-based, they are formed and members join consequently to location.  Many face-to-face communities have incorporated an online component to their association.  Groups who have not established any online presence are stagnant growth and late adopters of communication. 

The online community in which I belong is Facebook.  Facebook has the elements of people, process and purpose.  For the component of people, social presence is prevalent.  I have family, friends and professional contacts interacting in my community.  The information shared are personal, spiritual, political, financial and academically.  The information is also in the format of text, photo and video.  In the online community I have multiple relationships existing within the one community. 

A face-to-face community represents one-to-one relationship to one community opposed to one to many in an online community.  The information share within a face-to-face community receives delayed information and updates whereas an online community shares information immediately.  Professionally, the process element also exists.  Online community allows my group to collaborate more efficiently.  Using online collaboration applications allows members to modify a document at the same time.  Technology proliferates the community goals of members with a common purpose.

	Beginning 1	Developing 2	Accomplished 3	Score
Discussion Topics	Student did not post answer to discussion question	Student posted the answers to the questions but left out required elements	Student answered each question and included required elements	3
Discussion participation	Student responded to none of the discussion questions	Student responded to some discussion questions	Student responded to all discussion questions	3
Assessment Criteria	Student did not compare and contrast communities	Student compared or contrasted communities but not both.	Student compared and contrasted communities	3
Assessment Grammar	Assessment was not on topic, unclear and contained many errors	Assessment was on topic but contained some errors	Assessment was clear and on topic.	3
Assessment Question 1	Student did not answer question 1	Student answered question 1 but did not incorporate it into the compare and contrast	Student answered question 1 and incorporated the answer into the essay	3
Assessment Question 2	Student did not answer question 2	Student answered question 2 but did not incorporate it into the compare and contrast	Student answered question 2 and incorporated the answer into the essay	3
Final Score				18/18= 100%
Comments: This essay had good examples of personal experience. I though this student did a good job of pointing out the differences and similarities. I also liked how the student used the quote from the lesson in his or her essay.