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Hello all !! My name is Amanda Delgado. I am a freshmen here at University of Arizona studying Communications and most likely Esociety! In the beginning of our course, we spoke about "What is Collaboration Anyways." The pdf I read for class mostly spoke about how collaboration is shown through "sharing, openness, and/or participation." I believe those terms are explained perfectly. We dissected three different ways of collaboration through ideas of a social network, online communities, and a political social talk about Ferguson. In Levy's article, it was a little harder to grasp the concept well, but I think overall understandable. His idea on collective intelligence is that no one knows everything, but everyone knows something. Meaning if people all work together, their knowledge will be far more useful than only one person thinking of ideas. In Tina Fey's Bossypants, she explained that improvisation is the best way to explain collective intelligence. People rely on others if you keep going with improvisation, there is never a mistake. Aggregation, technical coordination mechanics, and social coordination mechanics all require intentional shared goals. The Continum explains the three major points of collaboration. The weaker, stronger, and intense. This was the hardest concept to understand this week, but after learning more information about each, I think it will make more sense. Some examples we learned about each point are captchas, music sharing, and Wikipedia. When we had to explain our own type of weak, strong, or intense collaboration, that is when I found it hard to understand the concept. I'm very excited to learn more on how people collaborate through social networks and online communities impacting how we interact with each other on a daily basis.