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Web 2-0 Glossary
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Web 2.0 Glossary
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Blog
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The term 'blog' is a contraction of 'web log', and is a journalling website in which the user's entries are displayed in reverse chronological order. Blogs may be contributed to by one or several authors, and control is given over whether members of the public are allowed to comment upon posts. Blogs, and the culture of online self-publication, are collectively referred to as The Blogosphere.
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Cloud
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'Cloud' computing refers to off-site storage and processing facilities, whereby a user, system, or company's data is held within remote servers and databases and accessed through the internet. The benefits of such a setup include the ability to out-source maintenance and management rather than utilise an on-site IT department; however the data is at the mercy of the relationship with the other party, and any interruption to internet service delivery leaves the data owner without their material.
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e-Learning
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e-Learning is education delivered in full or in part by technological means. Near universally implicit in all distance education, and widely used in all levels of education and training to augment on-campus classes, e-learning may comprise use of application software, internet delivery, and online collaboration in concert to create educational content.
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Flaming
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A colloquial term for a derogatory, rude, overtly harsh, or unprovoked response by a member to another's post.
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Forum
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Online discussion boards, also known as message boards or bulletin boards. Messages are posted within 'threads', and responses to the original message are listed beneath it in chronological order. Fora are generally created around a cogent point of focus, and may be organised to contain sub-forums for specific discussions. Users must join a forum before they can post upon it, and varying levels of privacy exist which determine visibility of threads and messages to non-members. Fora are managed by moderators, who are usually volunteers.
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Glog
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A contraction of 'graphical blog', which is essentially an interactive poster upon which the owner may post images, multimedia, text, and other content. Unlike blogs there is usually no pagination, nor temporal organisation or record of information.
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iTunesU
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iTunesU is Apple's initiative, providing a podcasting delivery and sharing service for colleges and universities worldwide. iTunes users may subscribe to and download lectures whether or not they are students or faculty of the authoring institution, and also available are class notes, study guides, and a messaging service with push notifications. iTunesU is available for teachers of all levels of education.
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Learning Environment
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Also termed 'online learning environment', these are the virtual classrooms within which the course is facilitated online, and/or in which lessons, lectures, and tutorials are conducted. These environs may be open source systems such as Moodle, proprietary systems like Blackboard, or web 2.0 platforms like wikis. Accessed through the internet from virtually any operating system, they provide essential services for students and lecturers for all aspects of learning, administration, and course delivery.
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Moderator
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The 'police' of online forums and other collaborative venues. Moderators may be attributed varying levels of authority, ranging from the ability to edit others' posts for profanity and flaming, to management of all aspects of one sub-forum, up to global moderator status, able to ban members, move threads, create and delete sub-forums, and more. Moderators are often long-time users who volunteer their services to the community.
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Netiquette
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A contraction of 'internet etiquette', these are the [largely] unspoken guidelines for interacting online. Created mostly through chat room and forum use, netiquette includes such rules as not engaging the 'caps lock' key when typing, as messages posted entirely in upper-case characters appear strongly put across, as though the author is shouting. Most netiquette rules are those which take account of the loss of context and tone when communicating with near anonymity and without visual contact with others, and are enforced by other members of the community in which one is posting.
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Podcasts
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The term 'podcasts' is derived from Apple's iPod mp3 player, and the word 'broadcast'. Podcasts are audio recordings which may be syndicated and to which other users may subscribe. Recording lectures for student use as podcasts is an easy way in which to provide greater convenience for students, and also to raise the profile of your institution and faculty if shared upon iTunesU.
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RSS
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RSS is an acronym of disputed meaning, but commonly taken to represent 'Really Simple Syndication'. In essence RSS can update users of changes or new content on various web-based material. This may be anything from new results for saved searches, news reports from a news service provider, updates upon favourite blogs, and syndication of podcasts and radio broadcasts. Users can use an RSS reader to combine favourite RSS feeds, and to create a single place within which to view updates from several various sources.
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Skype
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Skype is a computer program that can be used to make free voice calls over the Internet to anyone else who is also using Skype. It's free and considered easy to download and use, and works with most computers. Once you download, register and install the software, you'll need to plug in a headset, speakers or USB phone to start using Skype. On September 12, 2005 Skype was acquired by eBay.
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Social Networks
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A social structure made of nodes that are generally individuals or organizations. A social network represents relationships and flows between people, groups, organizations, animals, computers or other information/knowledge processing entities. The term itself was coined in 1954 by J. A. Barnes.
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Tags
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Tags are a means of taxonomy of online content. Users of blogs or wikis for example may 'tag' certain posts with keywords which make it easier for users to find content relevant to their interests. Tags are often displayed for ease of use upon the sidebar of a website, either in a list or arranged in a 'tag cloud'; the latter is a visual representation of the amount of use each tag has, with larger tag words being more prevalent. For example, within this wiki the material on Twitter use in education is tagged with 'Twitter', and users seeking every piece of information on Twitter available on this site may click upon the tag cloud to retrieve instant results for that tag.
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Twitter
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A free social messaging and micro-blogging service. Users may post 'tweets', or status updates, of anything they choose; common subject matter includes current activities, observations, news reports and link sharing, and commentary upon current events such as sports, politics, and television shows. Tweets must be 140 characters or less long, and users may subscribe to other users. Subscribed posts are viewed in a form of RSS feed known as a timeline, and users may also chose to have tweets from certain other members delivered automatically to their mobile device by SMS. Users are able to 'mention' each other with an '@' tag to hold public conversations, and private messaging is also available. 'Hashtags' are a means of using searchable tags within the Twitter platform, and permit categorisation of the topic of each tweet.
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Vlog
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A contraction of 'video logs', vlogs are the multimedia version of blogs.
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Web 2.0
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Web 2.0 is the second generation of web-based services. Whereas the early internet was static, web 2.0 websites are dynamic and interactive, often collaborative, and characterised by the integration of social networking. Web 2.0 tools are online applications which permit social networking, collaboration, and
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Wiki
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Named after the Hawaiian word for 'quick', wikis are a website which is the creative collaboration of several authors. Wikis are versatile and may be expanded to accept large amounts of information, and being html based it is possible to integrate 'widgets' - small applications - of other web 2.0 tools for greater versatility of use and for social networking. Wiki sites are often free, but paid services enable extra features, such as a large amount of members, or many dozens of pages and folders.
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QuinStreet Inc. (2012). Webopedia. Accessed 15 April, 2012 at http://webopedia.com.
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