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After week three, we still felt confused about what trackback was
and how it was to be used.  Therefore, we spent a significant
portion of class talking about this.  Our discussion focused
on the consequential and qualtitative differences between
commenting, blogging, and posting a story.  Henshall’s November post
was helpful in providing a starting point for this
discussion.  We all agreed to make another attempt at practicing
commenting [...]

As we move into Week 4, we will continue examining quality in
interactive webpublishing by focusing on the ethics of online
publishing.  We are continuing to build the foundation of good
publishing practices before inititating our attempt at building our own
personal learning communities.
Our goals for week 4:

Discuss pertinent issues from the Week 3 readings.  Reflect
upon our current writing [...]

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Gavin, who will be joining us shortly with an excellent introduction post on his new website (hint, hint), asked me how to set up his page so that when a user follows a link on his site to another page, the screen fades into the new one.  We grabbed a meta tag from the velvetbelly [...]

Like the week before, we spent the entire class time dealing with
Manila challenges, mostly template problems.   For some
reason, two of our students had problems with their text overflowing
off the page to the right.  To fix it, we had to change a table width
percentage on the newsitem template.  Another problem was missing
macros on many of [...]

We briefly examined Siemens article, The Art of Blogging, touching upon his list of guidelines for beginners and the disruptive, potentially subversive nature of weblog technology.  We then discussed the midterm self and peer evaluation criteria, emphasizing that the purpose was not to evaluate the person, but rather the work of the person.  In this way, evaluations can [...]

In his attempt to increase the activity in his personal learning network, John expresses difficulty interacting with ‘other weblogs’:
One of the most difficult aspects of interacting on other weblogs is that I have to remember to revisit sites to see if there has been any further discussion of the topic I originally responded to.  Read [...]

Last year, EAC students in the Networked Cooperative Learning class stated how much they benefitted from doing peer and self evaluations.  Based on that experience, I’m coming up with some possible criteria for midterm self and peer reviews for Spring 2004.  Since the main focus of first half of the semester is spent building a learning community with one another, [...]

Our goals for week 3:

Discuss the reading from week 2 and begin to explore ideas of quality in webpublishing

Visit each students’ websites and examine their approaches in light of the previous readings

Introduce trackback, discuss it’s purpose, and show how to enable it

Introduce our new wiki and think about how it might be used

Distribute and discuss midterm peer review criteria

Troubleshoot HTML and CSS [...]

When possible, we practice course linking at the East Asia Center (EAC) in order to encourage a more holistic understanding of our studies, or as Austin has put it, to help ‘cultivate interdisciplinary synthesis’.  With our interactive webpublishing course (IWP), this becomes a no-brainer.
One of the feature courses being offered at the EAC this semester is called Japan: Behind the Mask, [...]

We spent the entire class on Friday examining Manila related issues, which include:

The importance of making a habit of writing a title *before* composing a news item or story.  Submitting a post without a title will result in an error and possible loss of the message.

How to enable the radio comments feature.  Doing so allows visitors [...]

We began the class discussing the Week 1 readings.  Emphasized was the importance of having a ‘voice’ present on the weblog.  Visiting a weblog without a voice is like visiting someone’s house when he or she isn’t home.  You can look at photos on the wall and magazines on the coffee table, but how much longer will you keep coming back to [...]