Students engaged primarily in face-to-face discourse use coping strategies in order to make the classroom their own.sIt seems a necessary part of creating classroom structures.sThis presentation seeks to answer questions rising out of these student changes to the virtual classroom.sStudents change the classroom by their very presence -- but how do students make their "presence" known in the virtual?sImperative to the construction of a viable digital pedagogical community is the abilty of students to impress upon this virtual space a sense of ownership.sThis translates into a need for programming capabilities in MOO space and input into the design and use of web spaces and discussion spaces.sStudents must program, build spaces on-line, and engage in the creation of the virtual classroom, and yet we must then rearticulate the goals of the classroom to accommodate student constructions.
Presenter: Michael J. Salvo
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Target Audience: Advanced