The Communication section is designed to facilitate communication among students and instructors. A variety of communication means such as asynchronous and synchronous can be used to achieve this purpose. Synchronous communication occurs in real time. Synchronous communication allows for the spontaneous give and take of normal conversation - as long as you're a fast typist. Chat is an example of synchronous communication. You can actually chat online with one or a group of people. Some chat programs offer the function of saving chat sessions. If you are not online during a chat session, you can't retrieve the session and read postings in the session. Some programs, however, do not offer that option. If you are not online during a chat session, you can't chat and you miss the whole session. Asynchronous communication is more flexible because it allows you to decide when and where to communicate. E-mail, mailing lists/listservs, WebBoards/message boards all belong to asynchronous communication tools. If you're not online when someone sends you e-mail or post a message on the WebBoard, you can still retrieve and read the message at a later time. For this class, both asychronous and synchronous tools are used to facilitate communication between students and the instructor and among students. The asychronous tools this class uses are email, WebBoard, class distribution list (or listserv). The address for the class distribution list is crn10369@eagle.fgcu.edu.