activity 11 - common online terminologies
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COMMON ONLINE TERMINOLOGIES
Erika Frances O. EsturasBachelor of Secondary Education
University of Santo Tomas
E-MAIL also known as electronic email. It is a method of exchanging digital
messages from an author to one or more recipients.
A system for sending and receiving messages electronically over a computer network.
Allows a user to distribute messages to large numbers of recipients instantaneously.
It is one of the fastest ways to communicate with other people.
WIKI It is a collaborative website whose
content can be edited by anyone who has an access to it.
It is essentially a database for creating, browsing, and searching through information.
A single page in a wiki website is called “wiki page”, while the entire collection of the page is called “the wiki”.
It involves interactions with other people.
SOCIAL BOOKMARKING
Centralized online service which enables users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents.
This technology offers knowledge sharing solutions and a social platform for interactions and discussions.
Have several purposes in an academic setting including: organizing and categorizing web pages for efficient retrieval.
HTML Or HyperText Markup Language is the main markup
language for creating web pages and other information that can be displayed in a web browser.
It is developed by W3C and WHATWG and was released in the year 1993.
HTML is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of tags enclosed in angle brackets within the web pages.
The first tag in a pair is called the start tag <h1> and the second tag is called the end tag </h1>.
HTML elements form the building blocks of all websites.
Its filename is .html or .htm
<html>
PODCAST
The term "podcasting" was first mentioned by Ben Hammersley in The Guardian newspaper in a February 2004 article, along with other proposed names for the new medium.
It is a portmanteau of the words “pod”-from-“iPod” and “broadcast”.
It can be accessed using any computer that can play media files and not just portable music players.
NETCAST
VOIP Or Voice over Internet Protocol is a
methodology and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communication & multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet.
VoIP systems employ session control and signaling protocols to control the signaling, set-up, and tear-down of calls.
VoIP is available on many smartphones, personal computers, and on Internet access devices. Calls and SMS text messages may be sent over 3G or Wi-Fi.
ONLINE CHAT The first online chat system was called Talkomatic, created
by Doug Brown and David R. Woolley in 1974 on the PLATO System at the University of Illinois.
It refers to any kind of communication with the use of the internet.
It is most likely used by people with smartphones, laptop, pc, etc.
The expression online chat comes from the word chat which means "informal conversation".
STREAMING Or media streaming is a technique for transferring data so
that it can be processed as a steady and continuous stream.
Streaming technologies are becoming increasingly important with the growth of the Internet because most users do not have fast enough access to download large multimedia files quickly.
WWW Or World Wide Web A system of Internet
servers that support specially formatted documents. The documents are formatted in a markup language
called HTML (HyperText Markup Language) that supports links to other documents, as well as graphics, audio, and video files.
This means that you can jump from one document to another simply by clicking on hot spots.
Not all Internet servers are part of the World Wide Web.
BLOG is a discussion or informational site published on the World
Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the most recent post appears first).
It is mostly used by people to post their own stories, happenings, etc.
One of the common websites is Tumblr
SOCIAL NETWORKING used to describe any Web site that enables users
to create public profiles within that Web site and form relationships with other users of the same Web site who access their profile.
Social networking sites can be used to describe community-based Web sites, online discussions forums, chat rooms and other social spaces online.
URL Or Uniform Resource Locator (URL) was standardized in
1994 by Tim Berners-Lee and the URI working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as an outcome of collaboration started at the IETF Living Documents "Birds of a Feather" session in 1992.
it is the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web.
is a specific character string that constitutes a reference to a resource.
Example : "http://en.example.org/wiki/Main_Page".
WEB FEED is a data format used for providing users with frequently
updated content. It makes it easier for users to keep track of our content. This is a very convenient way of staying up to date with the
content of a large number of sites. RSS feeds can easily be read by computers, it's also easy for
webmasters to configure their sites so that the latest headlines from another site's RSS feed are embedded into their own pages, and updated automatically.
REFERENCES http://www.thefreedictionary.com/e-mail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emailictionary.com/e-mai
l http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_over_IP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_chat http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/streaming.html http://
www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/World_Wide_Web.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog http://
www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/social_networking_site.html
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/U/URL.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed