Hi Kayleigh! I read your first blog post for EDCI 339 and I really like the points and connections you made. As someone who is often shy to speak in class in front of my peers I can relate to feeling like “just another face on the screen” as if I am part of a big lecture online I will often never say anything and just be listening. I liked your point about making sure that students have both teacher-student and student-student interactions when using online learning spaces to help students not feel as though they are just a face on the screen and actively part of the conversation. I really liked your connection between the five aspects of the social presence model and the circle of courage. I did not even think of this connection and I am glad you pointed it out, as it is definitely relevant to the course material. In terms of your “scattered nature” of the blog post, I like how you have worded everything as it shows your thought process as you wrote out the post, but if you perhaps feel as though it is too scattered you could always add headings to clean it up.