Vocabulary

 VOCABULARY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY DIGITALLY LITERATE STUDENT

[|Library Spot (computer dictionaries)]) - Devry's Technology Terms - Matisse's Glossary - [|Webopedia] - Znet


 * 1) **aggregate**-to gather, collect or assemble.
 * 2) **blog-"**A blog is basically a journal that is available on the //web//. The activity of updating a blog is "blogging" and someone who keeps a blog is a "blogger." Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog." ( "Blog." [])
 * 3) **blogroll**- "Found on blogs it is a list of links to other [|blogs] and Web sites that the blog author commonly references or is affiliated with. Blogrolls help blog authors to establish and build upon a their [|blogger] community. ("What is blogroll?" Webopedia. []. 8 Aug 2009.
 * 4) digital natives
 * 5) file sharing
 * 6) folksonomy- How the community of users organize web sites based on tags that they create instead of by a professional taxonomy of organization.
 * 7) forum:
 * 8) hypertext mark-up language (html): a markup language used on the World Wide Web to design web pages.
 * 9) links (hyperlinks):
 * 10) linklogs
 * 11) Mash-Ups: View a [|You Tube visual explanation by Znet] about mash-ups.
 * 12) Netiquette
 * 13) Open source
 * 14) Phishing: Requesting confidential information over the internet under false pretenses in order to obtain personal information.
 * 15) Playlist: a list of audio files arranged in the order they are to be played
 * 16) Personal Learning Network (PLN):
 * 17) Podcast: Audio files broadcast over the internet available to be downloaded and played by a digital audio player.
 * 18) Read/Write
 * 19) RSS feeds-"(**R**eally **S**imple **S**yndication) A[|syndication format] that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites." ([|ZDnet Definition for RSS])
 * 20) **Social bookmarking**-Ranking a Web site by users who like the content rather than by the total number of links to the site. Social bookmarking sites such as [|del.icio.us]let users tag their favorite sites with key words and post them for others to see. ([|TechEncylopedia])
 * 21) **Social media tools**: blogging, micro-blogging, RSS feeds, social bookmarking, social networking, file sharing, communication and collaboration tools (online).
 * 22) social networking
 * 23) Tags. //See also// tagging
 * 24) Texting
 * 25) URL (tiny URL):
 * 26) Web 2.0
 * 27) Weblogs
 * 28) Widgets
 * 29) Wikis

HTML- Hypertext markup language PHP RIA RSS - Really Simple Syndication URL - Uniform Resource Locator