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December, 2006

Protecting the Online Classroom Community
By Patrick Durow, PhD

“Dr. Durow, the grad students think they’re smarter than we (the undergrads) are and are always putting us down.” Thus read the private message from an undergraduate education student during a recent synchronous chat session in my 500-level course, Secondary Teaching Methods in the Humanities. The message came during the sixth week of the course. I was shocked and surprised. During none of our asynchronous or synchronous discussions had I perceived any offending messages. While I knew how I would respond in the traditional classroom setting, I was given pause by the student’s plea. What to do?

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