Community of Inquiry

I re-read the Garrison stuff about cognitive, social and teacher presence. They all made sense, but I'm still trying to figure out how to incorporate them in our JACH model.

Cognitive presence is the degree to which knowledge is built through sustained communication (I believe that is correct, I don't have it in front of me)

Social presence - is a learner's ability to make himself "real" to the other learners

Teaching presence - the presence of a facilitator who encourages communication, provides structure, etc.

Again those are my interpretations of the dimensions.

Cognitive presence makes sense to our model. However, the 6 elements involved (can't remember them off the top of my head) didn't totally align with our thoughts.
Social presence interests me because of my thesis as well as the lit review for this class, yet I'm unsure how to incorporate it in our model. Same goes for teaching presence.

Must think on it and write again.