In order to have a collaborative environment and close the transactional distance of the educator and students, we will be using the forums for students to post materials and respond to each others ideas and findings. We will also require students to use Skype to communicate with their partners during the virtual lab and the write up of the analogies. These collaborative interactions will take place in Class #2 (mandatory) and Class #1 and #3(Skype portion is optional for these classes).