Survey for building social presence-Take It!

Social presence allows others to share socially and emotionally in an online environment.  Online tools like facebook, twitter, and blogging offer a means to maintain that social presence.  People need to update their status update in order to feel they are special.  Using online resources, one can share their successes or moodiness by a quick tweet or new profile picture.   Overall, the common thread to having a successful social presence is to communicate.  Online technology presents a different mode to get the same information across in a faster and equally effective rate.

In order for social presence to work for an online classroom,  the teacher needs to create that human interaction through technology.  One way to create social presence is by an “introduction/ getting to know you” activity.    Each teacher could take the online favorites survey.  Each has to copy or link their favorite and comment on similarities to each other.

Here’s a SAMPLE:

Answer this survey using pictures or links to pictures. Copy and paste this in your reply, then add the answers.
1. Favorite science course (life, physics, earth, chemistry, space, etc.)

2. What’s your favorite scent?

3. Describe a delicious meal?

4. Where is your dream vacation?

5. Put something random- anything else we should know about you?

You learn a lot about each other, maybe more than you would have learned in the teacher’s lounge.  You can use that to build future colleague relationships, learn each other’s strengths, and divvy up responsibility using your choice online tool (email, skype, blackboard, google docs, etc.), for collaboration.

Here's my answers to the survey:

1. Favorite science area (life, physics, earth, chemistry, space, etc.)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmHxYE_vDBs2. What’s your favorite scent?
http://www.ilovegain.com/home.do

3. Describe a delicious meal?
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/robin-miller/turkey-shepherds-pie-with-leftover-mashed-potatoes-recipe/index.html

4. Where is your dream vacation?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIgjnmDmTBA&feature=related

5. Put something random- anything else we should know about you?
http://weddings.theknot.com/pwp/pwp2/view/MemberPage.aspx?coupleid=7828109532620132&pid=10183670