• Describe the ways in which your introductory post should have enhanced social presence in a course that you teach:

My introductory post should have helped to create an environment of trusting be exposing myself as a “real” person with hobbies and interests. This would help to establish a community within the course that would encourage group cohesion

• Identify at least one improvement that you might make in light of what you know about social presence since completing your first post:

I think that I could have used humor in my first post and gone into more depth about my hobbies and interests. When I posted, I thought my interests weren’t relevant but they definitely are a huge part of who I am and therefore help make me real to my students.

• Describe how your thinking about social presence has changed since your first post..

When I created my first post I didn’t understand the importance of having a social presence. After reading the course material I now see that it is exceptionally important in an online environment to seem like a real person. It seems like even more care must be taken to