Interactivity

1.Interactivity is a form of communication between people. It is the communication process from one message of another person to the next and the response and its relitivity to what was said in the message preceeding it and if any other message preceeded that and if any before that and so on. Interactivity can be between anyone from teacher to student and vice versa to peer to peer communication, all having to be in a collaborative learning environment. It is the engagement of someone tryign to interact with any different content or information. For example the internet is an interactive community becuase it requires a user to go through some sort of hypertext to obtain additional information and so on from there.

2. Essential componets that interactivity requires can be very basic things. For interactivity to exist there must be two persons or things trying to interact or communicate with eachother in a continuel basis. From there, there must be some sort of information or message that can be past for person to person,also on a continuel basis, staying on the same plane of thought from the last content in the previous message. In a basic definition of interactivity this is all that would be required for interactivity to be taking place.