focusing on the subject specialism is the best way to engage teaching, support staff and students in conversations about what it means to be digitally literate in a particular discipline.
Aligned with that is the curriculum design process.
Online discussion prompts often do little prompting; they fail to engage the student in meaningful dialogue. Rather, the conversation that often surfaces is one centered around tasks, deadlines, or assignment instructions, rather than a dialogue about motivation, procrastination, or the complexities of technology.
Perry Samson is presenting at ALT-C 2013. He is aiming to move classroom teaching on beyond use of clickers to more sophisticated (and also remote) forms of interaction