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Different types of groups

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Photo by pixabay During class on Tuesday the term "group" was brought up in our class discussion. A group is usually defined as 3 or more people and they are generally grouped together by a commonality or social relations. There are many different types of groups. One in particular that I am a part of is a group of people I work and collaborate with a few times a month. I am a part of a youth group at my church and we meet a few times a month to discuss our growing fellowship and we plan activities to make the youth at our church be more comfortable and be more active at church and church related activities. We also work together to fundraise to help all the refugees that attended our fellowship. We all gather donations to help families in need all the time. Our church consists of Iraqi's, Jordanian's, Syrian's, and Lebanese. This is our church  website . You should check it out! We all generally share the same interests and we enjoy spending the few times ...

Collaboration, what is it?

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Photo by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0  Collaboration, what is it?  Collaboration can be defined in various ways. Collaboration all begins with a common interest. It can be vastly spread through various social media platforms, classrooms, workplace and it's used on a day to day basis. Let's use social media as an example. Social media has revolutionized the way we communicate and collaborate with others. Social media is a great tool for collaboration that's why so many of us use it. Various platforms like Reddit, Twitter, youtube, Instagram, etc. are used by many people to collaborate. Personally, I like reddit, youtube, and twitter. Those are the three platforms I gravitate towards to collaborate with others who share the same interests as me. Reddit is probably one of the easiest platforms used to collaborate. It's so simple to use that a toddler could probably figure it out. There is a search bar type in any word and you will be directed to different p...