
1. What are you trying to achieve? Synchronous or Asynchronous tools will provide different results. The first question to ask is what goals/outcomes are you trying to meet with the tool.
2. Evaluate the tool after a short time for effectiveness. Did the tool meet the goal? If not, why?
3.Ask your audience. Survey students and discuss what they liked, disliked, and any limitations of the tool
Joel,
Definitely a combination of different tools will work for me. I am flexible and many times I have to change the tool that I have chosen and apply a different one with rewarding results.
Joel,
Good questions and glad you actually provided them in question format so we can all begin to think about the questions we need to ask. Nice job.