Eight ways to increase social presence in your online classes

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Have a look to this article. It gives us some ideas to increase social presence in an online course.

http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/eight-ways-to-increase-social-presence-in-your-online-classes/

This article explores and explains mediation strategies applied to social networking tools. Focus is placed on how utilizing social networking tools (e.g., MySpace or Facebook) may enhance social presence for students participating in an online course.

Short, Williams, and Christie (1976) defined social presence as the belief the group members are communicating with people instead of objects. When communication channels are reduced, social presence decreases in a group. As a result of this reduction, group members feel disconnected with one another. Conversely, an increased sense of presence leads to..... to continue reading this article click here:

http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/winter124/joyce124.html

Social Presence

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This is our first posting, here we are giving you a link which contains a reading that we find to be very useful as well as interesting.

It focuses on our topic from page one until page four (where it says "Establishing and Maintaining Social Presence" starts checking teaching presence)

We would like you to read it and upload your comments to see if our reading complemented or clarified what the copies said.

http://www.patricklowenthal.com/publications/socialpresenceEDOLpre-print.pdf