Glossary

= Our glossary as we find it.... =

This list of terms has been compiled as we trawled through the literature, digital media sites, e-Learning platforms and course material in an attempt to understand the Web 2.0 environment in enough detail to produce this quality Wiki for your amusement (I mean use!). The enormity of information has been overwhelming, but in the same instance the level of application we can see in applying these mediums in our current academic roles is exponential. We have learnt so much about the application of the **Web 2.0** environment in academia we cannot see any way but forward. **Engagement** of our students by utilising these platforms is about to be transformed; but more importantly, we both want to to see peers colleagues and academics within the tertiary sector breakdown the walls of the office and classroom, and learn to build creative **e-learning** networks, which unerpins the concept of **lifelong learning.**

As such our glossary is both informative and interactive, but basic in layout with both visual and auditory components. Recognise the icons? Some you will, others may be new, even to the Millennial 'tech savvy' audience. Regardless, this list of 20 descriptors comes directly from our readings, and we have been nothing less than fascinated by everything we have come across. As such we have outlined the term, it's associated icon if it has one; a basic definition and a web link, as well as a **You Tube** Tutorial / video providing examples of its application to **e-learning**. To demonstrate contemporary use we have also identified a **Google** insight which outlines the increasing use of the term over the last 5 years.

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 * = **Term** ||= Icon ||= **Definition** ||= **Weblink** ||= **You Tube Tutorial** ||
 * = **Ajax** ||= [[image:debandsue/ajax.jpg width="190" height="94"]] ||= JavaScript is described as //the// scripting language of the Web.
 * = **Ajax** ||= [[image:debandsue/ajax.jpg width="190" height="94"]] ||= JavaScript is described as //the// scripting language of the Web.

JavaScript is used in billions of Web pages to add functionality, run applications, validate forms, communicate with the server, and much more. ||= [] ||= [|http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=0-5&q=ajax,&cmpt=q] media type="youtube" key="tJXLRLDWjn4" height="155" width="139" || media type="youtube" key="v2g800r1NBI" height="140" width="205" align="center"
 * = Applet ||= [[image:javacup.jpg width="308" height="166"]] ||= A small program or application usually written in  [|Java]  , that  runs on a Web browser and powers many of features (such as animation or computation). It downloads quickly and can be used by any computer equipped with a [|Java] or [|ActiveX] enabled browser.  <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> A pplets are found both online and  <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">offline (for example, the calculator on Windows 95 is an applet).  ||= [] ||= media type="youtube" key="44QcWqc0zEg" height="215" width="289" ||
 * = **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 26px; text-align: center;">Avatar ** ||= [[image:avatar.jpg width="293" height="164"]] ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The visual (often cartoonish) representation of a person in a virtual world or virtual chat room. ||= <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;">[] ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=avatar&cmpt=q]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">A <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"> nice look at how to turn Angelina Jolie into a Navi....but it can be any cartoonish creature. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: -webkit-left;">Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart ||= [] ||= media type="youtube" key="y_od5hlRZ68" height="140" width="205" ||
 * = <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 26px; text-align: center;">CAPTCHA ||= [[image:recaptcha-example.gif width="218" height="77"]] ||= This refers to those crazy letters and numbers you have to decipher and type in when filling out a form on the web. It is a mechanism used to check whether or not you are human and is used to prevent spam. Stands for
 * = <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 26px; text-align: center;">Cloud / cloud computing ||= [[image:cloud.jpg width="204" height="199"]] ||= Cloud computing is a model for enabling <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">universal network access on-demand, to a group of computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that is fast and requires minimal management effort or service provider interaction. ||= [] ||= media type="youtube" key="ae_DKNwK_ms" height="123" width="224" ||
 * = <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 27px; text-align: center;">Courseware ||= [[image:courseware2.jpg width="185" height="167"]] ||= The term combines the words 'course' with 'software'. It can refer to an entire course and any additional material when used in reference an online or 'computer formatted' classroom.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: arial,verdana,'trebuchet MS',helvetica;">Courseware can include:

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">You can see a Web page's HTML [|code] if you select "view source" from the View menu in your Web browser. ||= [] ||= media type="youtube" key="h9RuQVfCxFQ" height="182" width="331" || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">"A metadata record consists of a number of pre-defined elements representing specific attributes of a resource, and each element can have one or more values." ||= [] ||= media type="youtube" key="96ncNPpohjo" height="179" width="328" || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Online newsreaders (likeBloglines, Pluck, or Newsgator) are web sites that letyou read RSS feeds from within your web browser.Desktop newsreaders download the news to your computer, and let you read your news inside adedicated software program. ||= [] ||= media type="youtube" key="ZJHYLZHP2Xs" height="155" width="210" || This is a great perspective on the Pop Up Ad!! ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: arial,verdana,'trebuchet MS',helvetica;">Material for instructor-led classes
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: arial,verdana,'trebuchet MS',helvetica;">Material for self-directed computer-based training (CBT)
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: arial,verdana,'trebuchet MS',helvetica;">Web sites that offer interactive tutorials
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: arial,verdana,'trebuchet MS',helvetica;">Material that is coordinated with distance learning, such as live classes conducted over the Internet
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: arial,verdana,'trebuchet MS',helvetica;">Videos for use individually or as part of classes ||= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_software ||= media type="youtube" key="ZWmG_GULDG0" height="140" width="345" ||
 * = <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 27px; text-align: center;">Hypermedia ||= [[image:hypermedia.jpg width="165" height="189"]] ||= Hypermedia is a computer-based information retrieval system that enables a user to gain or provide access to texts, audio and video recordings, photographs and computer graphics related to a particular subject. The www itself is an example of hypermedia. ||= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermedia ||= media type="youtube" key="H8JCU61u0sY" height="140" width="205" ||
 * = <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">HTML ||= [[image:html.jpg width="192" height="142"]] ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HTML is hypertext mark-up language that uses [|tags] to structure text into headings, paragraphs, lists, and links. It tells a Web browser how to display text and images.
 * = <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 27px; text-align: center;">itunesU ||= [[image:itunes_u.jpg width="231" height="176"]] ||= An ipad/ipod app that enables you to access entire college/university courses for free, although some add-one (books/apps) might cost. ||= [] ||= media type="youtube" key="4-7AHBOl4Og" height="123" width="224" ||
 * = <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 27px; text-align: center;">Meta-data ||= [[image:meta_data.jpg]] ||= <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Metadata is structured data which describes the characteristics of a resource.
 * = <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 27px; text-align: center;">Newsreader ||= [[image:newsreader.jpg width="89" height="100"]] ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A newsreader gathers the news frommultiple blogs or news sites via RSS (see below),allowing readers to access all their news from a singleweb site or program.
 * = <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Pop Up Ad ||= [[image:pop.gif width="157" height="597"]] ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> An online ad, such as an interstitial, it is displayed in a new [|browser] [|window] when you click from one page to another. ||= [] ||= media type="youtube" key="o69y7BFP1FQ" height="215" width="289"
 * = <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 27px; text-align: center;">Prezi ||= [[image:prezi.jpg width="252" height="128"]] ||= Cloud based presentation software with a zoomable canvas. A great alternative to Power Point, it allows the presenter to be interactive and engage their audience. ||= http://prezi.com/jipjiqvj6dsc/about-perspective/ ||= media type="youtube" key="pxhqD0hNx4Q" height="140" width="345" ||
 * = <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 26px; text-align: center;">RDF ||= [[image:debandsue/RDF.jpg width="181" height="217"]] ||= "Resource Description Framework"

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"a general method for conceptual description or modeling of information that is implemented in web resources, using a variety of syntax formats" [] ||= Digital Humanities Conference, Canberra, March 28-30, 2012. [] ||= media type="youtube" key="VFYLu83WtX0" height="155" width="139" || ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">media type="youtube" key="PTXnmMlipmo" height="123" width="224" || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Trebuchet,Tahoma,'Myriad Roman',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">These tools are being recognised for their value in socialization, social networking, entertainment, collaboration, and business development. ||= []
 * = <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">**RSS** ||= [[image:debandsue/RSS.jpg width="176" height="192" align="center"]] ||= "Really Simple Syndication" This is a newsfeed format in which internet users can subscribe to a websites updates. ||= Richardson, 2010
 * = <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Search Engine ||= [[image:search.jpg align="center"]] ||= <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Web site (actually a program) that acts as a card catalog for the Internet. Search engines attempt to index and locate desired information by searching for the keywords a user specifies. ||= [] ||= media type="youtube" key="M85m1nRO3SY" height="182" width="246" ||
 * = <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 26px; text-align: center;">Secondlife ||= [[image:secondlife.jpg width="161" height="193"]] ||= <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans;">Virtual social worlds in which players become residents in order to create an identity, meet people, buy land and build their own environment or purchase an existing one.Known as a "massively multiplayer online role playing game" (MMORPG), it offers users total freedom to create and interact as if they were living another life.

[] ||= media type="youtube" key="b72CvvMuD6Q" height="155" width="210" || When a torrent download is started, the BitTorrent system locates multiple computers on the Internet with the file and downloads different parts of the file from each computer. ||= [] ||= media type="youtube" key="fWBXhiGGEPk" height="140" width="205" ||
 * = <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Torrent ||= [[image:torrent.png width="176" height="176"]] ||= A torrent is an incomplete file of any type sent using what is termed a Bit Torrent protocol. Torrents are different from regular downloads in that they are usually downloaded from more than one server at a time. The Bit Torrent protocol uses multiple computers to transfer a single file, thereby reducing the bandwidth required by each server.
 * = <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 26px; text-align: center;">Udacity ||= [[image:Udacity.jpg width="193" height="209"]] ||= Free online university developed by a Stanford University professor, but now completely independent. They teach how to build a Search Engine in 7 weeks. ||= http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/01/23/udacity-and-the-future-of-online-universities/ ||= media type="youtube" key="BQHMLD9bwq4" width="167" height="140" ||
 * = <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">**Widget** ||= [[image:debandsue/widget.jpg width="102" height="102"]] ||= A stand-alone application that can be embedded into third party sites by any user on a page where they have rights of authorship (e.g. a webpage, blog, or profile on a social media site) . ||= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_widget ||= media type="youtube" key="HRAmQ_m2asg" height="155" width="139" ||