Communities of Practice

This week we spent class time talking about Communities of Practice. A community of practice is groups of people who share a concern, set of problems, or passion about a topic. These groups of people work together to gain more knowledge and make the group better by sharing information and getting everyone to contribute. I found this week's topic to be very interesting because it correlates very closely to a lot of what I do and what everyone does whether they think about it or not. Everyone looks for other people and groups for support and to better themselves. For example I consider the fraternity that I am a part of to be a community of practice because we all share the goal of improving the fraternity and helping the community around us. One of the activities that we are most proud of is helping contribute and offer help in any ways that we can to the kinder garden the is right next door to us. We help by picking up trash near and around their building and on the holidays we like to make crafts for the kids. This last Thanksgiving we made little pipe cleaner turkeys for all the kids at the school and they were all very excited which made our fraternity, or community of practice, feel very good.