Social Presence in Online Classrooms

I think this is a very good side for students to collaborate and engage in a Social Online Presence. Students are given the opportunity to understand each others'sdiferences and work as a group, and each and every student sharing the same responsibility. Studenst are encouraged to reveal their areas of personal interests to bond with others in the class with the same interest.Online Social Presence is a very good platform for learning if it is well designed to accommodate everybody. Students can learn and interact at the same time,they are comfortable to share what ever they can think of sharing even if is not from the same group. The teacher can give learners a project,whereby they can set time to be on chatroom and discuss the project. I realy enjoy this session as you can be anywhere aslong as you have neccesary  resourses for social presence.Students feel very comfortable with Social Presence in Online Classroom as sometimes they become so bored to listern to the teacher in class.Looking at the three student that started their conversation about food before getting into the real task,which shows that they did share the same interets of cornbread.(David Lester,East Bay,2005)