#PLENK2010 Research, technology and networks

The guest speaker for the second week of the PLENK course has been Martin Weller – what a treat!  The link to the recording of his Elluminate presentation is here Basically – his talk was about how depressed he is that research is not ‘keeping up with the times’ in terms of advances in technology [...]

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#PLENK2010 Curation and Balance

End of Week 1 Notes (based on listening to the recordings of the two live sessions, having read a couple of references from the list and commented here – having kept an eye on the Daily and Twitter stream – and popped in on the Moodle forums – but not read much) There has been [...]

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The Riddle of Online Resonance (third instalment)

Here is the third and final instalment of our paper on e-resonance. You can find the PDF of the full article here – The Riddle of Online Resonance. Two prior instalments have been posted here and here. We decided to post in three instalments to make reading of the paper online easier and to allow time [...]

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# PLENK2010 – Breadth versus depth – an illusion?

This is a response to Dave Ferguson’s and Stephen Downes’ comment’ on my blog post . Well actually more of a reflection than a response. I understand Dave’s response. I can see that he is coming from the same place as I am in concerns about balancing depth and breadth in online courses, i.e. the [...]

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The Riddle of Online Resonance (second instalment)

Here is the second instalment of our paper on e-resonance. You can find the first instalment here – first instalment – and the PDF of the full article here – The Riddle of Online Resonance. There will be one further instalment after this one. We decided to post in three instalments to make reading of [...]

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#PLENK2010 Immediate thoughts

It is interesting that this course has attracted so many people (over 1000?), but the Critical Literacies course attracted far fewer – and I’m wondering why, since a critical literacy must surely be to be able to manage a personal learning environment/network. Is it because the management of a personal learning environment/network is more practically [...]

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The Riddle of Online Resonance (first instalment)

Here is the first instalment of our paper on e-resonance. We will post two further instalments, which will cover sections 4&5 and 6&7 – some of which are referred to in this instalment (so they are coming soon!).  We hope to post the next instalments over the next few days and the entire paper as [...]

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The Riddle of Online Resonance

First instalment (Introduction, e-resonance and F2F communication, Characteristics of e-resonance)  - posted 12-09-2010 Second instalment (Indicators of e-resonance, Affordances of e-resonance) - posted 14-09-2010 Third instalment (Factors that affect e-resonance, Conclusions) – posted on 16-09-2010 PDF of full article – The Riddle of Online Resonance – http://jennymackness.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/the-riddle-of-online-resonance.pdf _______________________________________________________________________________________________ The subject of this blog post is the [...]

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