University at Albany offers their entire master's program for the School of Education, Curriculum and Development in Instructional Technology online through the SUNY Learning Network (SLN). Two courses, Computers in Education and Media in Education in particular, structure their activities in each of four modules as discussions, readings with critiques, lesson planning, and reflective learning journals. An attentive focus by the instructor to the management of the discussions has proven very effective to the integration of course skills to classroom practices. We structure a question or incident each week for students to react to, based on their experience and their readings. They are required to post their response to the incident and to also respond to two of their classmates' ideas each week. The professor privately responds to EACH posting with supportive comments and/or extending ideas. The practice has led to many students feeling comfortable in discussing issues of computers in education to the point that many students join committees relating to technology implementation in their respective school districts. The privacy of the professor's comments to students' conversations supports each person stating ideas with equal status - not just a 'carbon' of the professor's ideas. It facilitates the perspective of professor-to-students intereaction as well as student-to-student interaction in a neutral setting - much more neutral perhaps than in traditional college classroom settings.