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Read Distance Education: Guidelines for good practice article and post to the discussion forum 3 tips you could use as a facilitator of a distance education course. Make sure to read through the survey questions and answers at the end also.

Describe how the strategies you use within the course supports your objectives and why you're using those specific strategies. Answer the questions of why you're using a particular method of instruction and how that relates to your goals and objectives.

• What type of questioning methods are you using and why are those appropriate for this content and audience?
• Why did you organize the content this way?
• What is the purpose of the collaborative aspects of your lesson?
• Did you use any role-play or break-out groups and why did you use those for that particular topic?
• What type of assessment strategies did you implement and why?
• Did you use any real-world scenarios or problem-based learning and what was the purpose of those strategies relative to the content and audience?

There are other questions you might want to answer, but these are a few to get you started.

Create a storyboard of your Adobe Connect room. How do you want to arrange your pods and what is the purpose for putting them in those particular places? You can also rename your pods, so you might want to consider renaming the pods to indicate a more specific purpose. In addition, you can create your own layouts and create new layouts for different segments of your lesson. You can see tutorials on how to change the pods and layouts in the Adobe Connect Resource Center under Tutorials & Articles > Meeting > Meeting Management. Your storyboard needs to be uploaded to this forum. Just click on Post a New Forum Topic and upload the file. Include a brief description of your design decisions.