Glossary+SP15

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Aggregator - a website that collects information and links it to related topics. **MV**

Bookmark-a website location saved in a menu for easy access in the future **BC**

Crowdsource: To collect information or ideas from a group of people especially though online communities or networks. **DM**

Dashboard

Folksonomie-A user-generated system of classifying and organizing online content into different categories by the use of metadata such as electronic tags. **BC**

Hashtag

Hit

Hypertext

Link

Meme - Things that go viral on the Internet such as a video, an idea or a concept. **MV**

Micro-Blog -- Intentionally small chunks of digital content shared online. Examples include text (tweets or FB status updates), video (Vine), and digital images. -- MB

Participatory Culture (the opposite of a Consumer Culture) a culture in which the public does not act as consumers only, but also as contributors(prosumers). AS

Password - To make a web account personalized so that the user is the only one who can change and edit the account, one must create a word to be used at log-in that allows entry. RR

Payload

Podcast -- Digital media content available for download over the internet. (word origin has to do with the idea of broadcasting for one's iPod, or content created expressly for mobile devices, though in reality this need not be the case.) MB

PLE

QR Code

RSS Stands for Rich Site Summary and is a system for syndicating, and then aggregating, updated communications and information from sources such as blogs, wikis, news sites, and online magazines and journals. One can "subscribe" to RSS feeds from multiple sources and then have them delivered to one source, an RSS reader, which allows the user to only have to check one source for updates, rather than to have to check each individual source. AS

Scrollbar- It is a graphical control element that allows you to view an entire page on a website even if you are unable to see it at the moment. It allows you to move around the page. CT

Search Engine: A computer program that is designed to search for individual words or groups of words and produces a list of matching items; used especially to search for information on the internet. **DM**

Social Bookmarking - Is a shared platform that allows users to add their favorite web pages to share with other users. RR Tagging makes the sites searchable.

Social Network - A platform for communication and sharing. DN

Tags are keywords or terms that are associated with information on the Web. These help people find information on the web as the tags help describe the item. CT

URL Uniform Resource Identifier - a general term for names and addresses on the web (also known as a "web address") AS

Virtual World

Widget -- A standalone application that can be embedded into a web site. With a widget a user can click through to another site or application. An example is on my local library website you can click the Ask-a-Librarian widget and it will take you to a chat screen where one can chat with a librarian. On this site, when one is in editing mode, one can embed a widget by clicking the widget button on the tool bar. AS