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
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The subject of this blog post is the result of a discussion that I have been having with Matthias Melcher – and he with me 
– since the beginning of the year. Matthias and I ‘met’ on the Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Course (CCK08) - and through this discovered that we are both interested in how online connections are made and we have been discussing this off and on ever since.
As a result of these discussions we have now written a discussion paper that we would like to share in the spirit of openness that we learned about on the CCK08 course.
This discussion paper explores the nature of online connectivity and, in particular, seeks to better understand how online connections are made in the very first instance of contact. There has been plenty of research on how to develop online connections once they have been made, but the question of how the initial contact is made has not received much attention. What is it that enables a potentially beneficial connection to be made with a previously unknown online communicator? We propose that the answer lies in online resonance, which we have called ‘e-resonance’. In this paper we consider what the characteristics, affordances and affecting factors of e-resonance might be. What sparks it off? What are the key indicators of e-resonance? In response to these questions we discuss the possibility of ‘beyond verbal’ communication and what this might mean for the author and reader of online messages and whether particular skills are needed to be able to benefit from e-resonance. There is no doubt that e-resonance is a riddle, which remains, as yet, unsolved.
Our intention is to post our paper in three instalments and we would very much welcome comment, positive or negative, and discussion about the ideas that we have incorporated in the paper.
We will also be posting a full PDF of the paper at some stage.
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The Riddle of Online Resonance by Matthias Melcher and Jenny Mackness is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
[...] Jenny Mackness and I were working on a paper that is now approaching its final stage. “In this paper we consider what the characteristics, affordances and affecting factors of e-resonance might be. What sparks it off? What are the key indicators of e-resonance? In response to these questions we discuss the possibility of ‘beyond verbal’ communication and what this might mean for the author and reader of online messages.” [...]
Hi Jenny,
Wonderful to learn the e-resonance that you and Matthew have been working on. That would be of great interests to us. Looking forward to your paper – cracking the unresolved riddle.
See you
John
eResonance interests me greatly, I am following you ..
Hi Heli and John – many thanks for your interest. We will welcome any comments/thoughts you might have.
Jenny
[...] Finally we finished the full paper http://jennymackness.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/the-riddle-of-online-resonance.pdf . For the discussion, see the 3 instalments. [...]
[...] My experience with thinking about depth versus breadth has always been in terms of the ‘overload’ problem discussed above and ‘recognised’ by Dave. This is a real problem so in that sense is not an illusion – it is something experienced by many learners and something that many teachers think about in trying to select a curriculum for their learners – and it has become more of a problem now that we have so much ready information and networks at our finger tips. How do we know where to focus? This ability to filter, select and focus is a critical literacy skill that will be important to develop. This was discussed in the Critical Literacies course and Matthias and I have also discussed it in relation to e-resonance. [...]
[...] Recently, I have gone one step further with Matthias Melcher, in working for many weeks/months on a paper on e-resonance and simply publishing it here on this blog – but the process we worked through was not open to all. See - The Riddle of Online Resonance [...]
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[...] will use the above to explain the development of online resonance, Instructional Design, PLENK, Community of Practice, and Social Capital in coming [...]
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