Just read Pamela Felcher's "It's culture, not just class size" in the LA Times opinion blog.
This reminds me of something professor Mary Flynn (she doesn't have a blog) told her future teachers the first night of class: "You will have very few problems with behavior management if you take the time to build your classroom culture."
How do you do that?
By taking the time to get to know each student as an individual, by letting each student get to know you, and by letting them get to know each other.
There are many web tools available that have the potential to make students feel part of the classroom community as well as the global community of learner. But these are only tools. It's all in how we present them, teach them and use them.
The human touch is the real link.
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