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Activity 13 common online terminologies
1. Want to know more stuff
about different online
terms?
Jenina P. Especi
Bachelor of Secondary Education
University of Santo Tomas
2.
3. What is an Email?
o Commonly used to send and receive messages
from one user to another.
o It also allows you to send graphics and sounds. You can also
view, sort and even download files sent to you.
o messages that are sent electronically from one computer to another.
(http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/e-mail)
4. Wiki is a kind of web site that allows other
people to access the site and add, replace or
modify its content.
This kind of site is created mainly by different
kinds of authors.
“wiki” comes from the Hawaiian phrase “wiki
wiki” which means “super fast”.
(http://www.techterms.com/definition/wiki)
Wikipedia is the largest, and the most used wiki site which
is a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
5. Social bookmarking is a userdefined taxonomy system
for bookmarks.
Bookmarks are referred to as tags.
Unlike storing bookmarks in a
folder on your computer, tagged
pages are stored on the Web and
can be accessed from any
computer.
(http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/social-bookmarking)
6. This is the kind of language that web
pages uses in order to create it.
This is where you type what design you would like to
put in your page, or what kind of effect you would
like to use.
The HTML syntax is based on a list of tags that describe the
page's format and what is displayed on the Web page.
(http://www.techterms.com/definition/html)
7. a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that c
an be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer.
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/podcast)
You can download this and/or subscribe daily.
8. VoIP
- Voice over Internet Protocol
a technology that allows telephone calls to be made over computer networks
like the Internet.
(http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/voicefaxoverip/g/bldef_voip.htm)
9. Online Chat
Talking to different people using the internet.
There can be a group of users talking to each other.
It can be on going or scheduled.
10. WWW
(World Wide Web)
consists of all the public Web sites connected to the Internet
worldwide, including the client devices (such as computers and cell phones)
that access Web content.
(http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/worldwideweb/g/bldef_www.htm)
11. Streaming
To view, listen, or watch a file online instead of downloading it.
You listen or watch stuffs on your computer or gadget, live.
It is not saved in your computer but you can still access it again if you’ll
go back to the site where you got it.
12. What is a blog?
A site that can be your personal journal where in you
could put comments, opinions and reflections
You can also put pictures, videos
and other multimedia stuffs.
Can be updated anytime and anywhere.
13. Social Networking is…
Social networking is the grouping of individuals into specific groups, like
small rural communities or a neighborhood subdivision, if you will. Although
social networking is possible in person, especially in the
workplace, universities, and high schools, it is most popular online.
(http://www.whatissocialnetworking.com/)
Social networking sites are slightly like blog sites where in people posts
what they want and other people communicates with them.
14. What is
URL
Uniform Resource Locator
a specific character string that constitutes a reference to a
resource. In most web browsers, the URL of a web page is
displayed on top inside an address bar.
refer to a file on some machine on the
network.
