Glossary

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 * Web 2. 0 Glossary **

__**Avatar**__: A digital representation of an individual shown along with a screen name, typically in a virtual environment or on a social networking site. Sometimes used instead of a photograph of the individual.

__**Agreggator/Aggregation:**__ A website that keeps track of blog posts, news feeds or other information. Gathering information from multiple websites, typically via RSS (Really Simple Syndication), an aggregator pulls together the most recently published information from a variety of sources.
 * [|Pageflakes Example]
 * [|iGoogle Example] (requires Jamie to log in)

__**Blog:**__ Originally short for "weblog", a blog is a web page that contains entries in reverse chronological order, with the most recent entry on top.

**__Creative commons:__** is a [|non-profit organization] headquartered in [|San Francisco, California], United States devoted to expanding the range of [|creative] works available for others to build upon legally and to share.[|[1]] The organization has released several [|copyright]-[|licenses] known as [|Creative Commons licenses] for free to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they [|waive] for the benefit of recipients or other creators.

**__Del.icio.us:__** A social bookmarking service that allows users to save bookmarks online, tag them, and share them with others.

**__Glogster__:** is a [|social network], founded in 2007, that allows users to create free interactive posters, or glogs. Glogster provides an environment to design [|interactive] posters. The user inserts text, images, photos, audio ([|MP3]), videos, special effects and other elements into their glogs to generate a multimedia online creation.

**__Instant Messaging (IM):__ (n)** a computer application which allows for communications in real time, a live chat and email service

**__PLN (Personal Learning Network):__** It seems there isn't a concrete definition out there, so I (Jamie) will provide my description/beliefs of what it encompasses and also a link or two to help you form your own. To me a PLN is the connections or venues through which we turn for information, learning and support in our quest to discover knowledge and discuss our interests. A PLN could be made up of friends, family, teachers, colleagues, peers, experts etc. Technology has brought new possibilities to this old concept. With the use of web 2.0 tools, the size of and distance our PLNs cross has grown exponentially.


 * What is a PLN? Or PLE vs. PLN?
 * Teachin on the Information Highway

**__RSS (Really Simple Syndication):__** A form of syndication that lets users "subscribe" to receive new or updated content from blogs, news, or other frequently updated online content sources.

__**Social Bookmarking:**__ Social Bookmarking services such as Diigo or deli.icio.us enable users to store lists of Internet resources they find useful and make them accessible to others with similar interests.

__**Social Networking:**__ Sites that connect individuals in a community, allowing them to communicate with friends, colleagues and even strangers. The most popular examples are MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn.

__**Tags:**__ An informal approach of using keywords to classify content and a primary method for organizing content stored in Web 2.0 applications and environments.

__**Tag Cloud:**__ A **tag cloud** or **word cloud** (or **weighted list** in visual design) is a visual depiction of user-generated [|tags], or simply the word content of a site, typically used to describe the content of web sites. Tags are usually single words and are normally listed alphabetically, and the importance of a tag is shown with font size or color. Thus, it is possible to find a tag alphabetically and by popularity. The tags are usually hyperlinks that lead to a collection of items that are associated with a tag.

__**Microblog:**__ A blog on which one posts brief, frequent updates on one's activities. A popular example is Twitter.

**__User-Generated Content (UGC):__** Refers to media content produced or primarily influenced by end users (vs. traditional content publishers). Much of the content on YouTube.com is UGC. This is a broad term that describes online tools that allow users to share and express content, such as blogs, wikis and podcasts.

**__VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol):__** a general term for a family of transmission technologies for delivery of voice communications over IP networks such as the Internet or other packet-switched networks. Synonyms: IP telephony, Internet telephony, voice over broadband (VoBB), broadband telephony, broadband phone.

**__Web 2.0:__** Loosely defined as "a second generation of Internet-based services that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users.

**__Widget:__** A "mini-application" embedded within a web page that provides specific information (weather, sports, movie times etc.)

**__Wiki:__** Hawaiian for"quick," a wiki is a website that allows users to create, edit and collaborate content. A popular example is Wikipedia

//Sources://
 * Conquering Technophobia: Web 2.0 Explained, Discovery Communications, LLC 2009.
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 * //Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon//. Retrieved May 10, 2010, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/instant messaging
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