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I love edutopia! Check out facilitation with discussion boards.

This is from Edutopia and offers some very well thought out/organised ways of managing or facilitating different types of online discussions. It provides strategies for certain types of objectives, as well as examples for different content areas.

This is a resource guide by Edutopia about discussion boards.

I found this gem when searching for resources to use in a lesson about facilitating online discussion forums. It is a great resource for developing open ended discussion questions.

Great minds think alike :) I enjoyed this as well.

"CELT/ TeachingFacilitating/ Learning with Technology"

This article discusses the benefits of online discussions and tips for both planning and facilitating such discussions.

In a face-to-face class, students have numerous opportunities to interact with their instructor and fellow students. Creating similar opportunities for collaboration in a web-based course is one of the biggest challenges of teaching online. Yet, opportunities for meaningful synchronous and asynchronous interaction are plentiful, provided you design and facilitate your online course in the correct manner and with the proper tools.

This article examines the potential of synchronous communication in online education by analyzing the newest tools and platforms that facilitate real-time group communication, and the pedagogy associated with implementing synchronous communication tools into asynchronous learning environments.

The Padagogy Wheel - It's Not About The Apps, It's About The Pedagogy by Allan Carrington, TeachThought PD Workshop Facilitator

Nearpod is an amazing tool for teachers that helps you create engaging, interactive lessons for your classroom. As an elementary school teacher in a one-to-one iPad classroom I used Nearpod all the time with my students. Now that I'm out of the classroom, I use Nearpod to facilitate professional development and model best practices for lesson design for teachers.