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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 template and other Manila issues

Our readings for week 3:

• Winer D (2003) How to Add a Comment Window
• Winer D (2003) How to Enable Trackback on your Weblog
• Henshall S (2003) To Comment or To Blog 
• Bell B (2003) Fixing Bad Word Output
• Bernstein M (2002) ‘10 Tips on Writing the Living Web‘ A List Apart, 149
• Mahoney DA (2002) ‘How to write a better weblog’ A List Apart, 138

Our tasks for week 3:

• Add a comment window and enable trackback on our websites
• Practice the use of trackback by commenting on other learners’ postings on our own site
• Continue posting entries to our sites (minimum of 3 to 4 per week) and constructing relevant story pages if necessary
• Practice editing on our new wiki by adding at least one vocabulary term relevant to Behind the Mask
• Complete the reading assignments and prepare questions for discussion

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