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Rubric author Catlin Tucker is a Google Certified Teacher teaching English at Sonoma County’s Windsor High School. She is a curriculum designer, speaker, and author of Blended Learning in Grades 4-12: Leveraging the Power of Technology to Create Student-Centered Classrooms.

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This article is about discussion and questioning skills. Although it is written with the traditional classroom in mind, the ideas apply to our work as online facilitators.  Links to the source article are included. ~ Dennis

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"The first article by Peter J. Frederick I read has a great title, “The Dreaded Discussion: Ten Ways to Start.” I recently looked at the article again and most of his suggestions are just as good now as they were 30 years ago when the article was published. When you are as old as I am, you come to accept that there are few new things under the pedagogical sun and there is a certain agelessness about many good teaching ideas.

Peter uses four question sets to keep his instructional decision-making on track. Here is a sample question (or group of them) from each of those sets."

Whether you are in a traditional classroom setting, or an online learning community, ice-breakers play a vital role in developing a sense of community in a learning environment.

Here's a wiki with many resources on ice-breaking and online community development.