Knowledge Bank Glossary
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B
Blog is a website that often takes the form of an online personal diary. The word ‘blog’ is derived from “web log”. Blogging subjects are as varied as human interests.
D
Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website. It enables individuals to save their favourite articles, blogs, music and reviews; share them with friends, family, co-workers and the Del.icio.us community; and browse other people’s favourites.
Digitalisation is a process where source information such as text, sounds or images are translated into a binary language (literally comprising of numbers or ‘digits’) and hence can be altered, transmitted or stored on common media such as computer drives, memory sticks etc.
E
Emerging technology is a ‘type of technology device, software or online service that is not yet embedded into learning and teaching practices in Victorian schools’.
F
Facebook is a free-access social networking website that allows users to join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. Users can add friends and then post messages for these friends to see, and update their personal profile to notify friends about themselves.
Flickr is a photo-sharing website. It’s focus is on the art of photography and it encourages and supports the growth of social networks through common creative interests.
G
GoogleVideo is similar to YouTube. It allows users to upload their own content, provides access to stock content and a marketplace for music videos, TV episodes and trailers.
I
ICT – Information Communication Technology, an acronym that covers all forms of devices which can store, manipulate and transmit digital information e.g., personal computers, mobile phones, MP3 players, and so on.
iMovie is a piece of software designed to make editing and producing professional-looking videos intuitive and quick in order to reduce obstacles to home video creation.
Innovation is a term widely used to suggest something new, often associated with new technologies, which may realise substantial benefits
Innovation and Next practiceInnovation and ‘next practice’ refers to a model of change, premised on disciplined innovation, which is practitioner informed, supported by formative research and has the potential to inform educational practices beyond a single school.
iTunes is music library management software that allows users to import music from CDs, organise it into playlists, play music, purchase it from an online store and load it on to their iPod.
M
MSN is one of a range of services that allow text messages to be sent from one computer to another instantly so that a conversation can be carried out over the internet.
MySpace is a fast-growing social networking site with registered members from all over the world. It offers an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, photos, music and videos.
N
Nodes are online site where users can create, transmit and store digital information. The Knowledge Bank is an example of a ‘node’.
P
Podcasts are audio or video recordings that download automatically by software on user’s computer every time a new edition is posted on a website. This is then stored and you can listen to it anytime you choose via your computer, iPod or other media players - even a mobile phone. There are many podcasts being made by educators, as a way of helping to deliver educational content to their students.
Portal is the means by which digital information can be viewed and accessed. For a user, the portal is the entry point to the digital world of the web, through which they seek, track and find digital information.
S
Social networking refers to the aspect of Web 2.0 that allows users to create links between their online presence such as a webpage or a collection of photos. These links may be through joining online groups or by assigning direct links to other users through lists of ‘friends’ or contacts.
W
Web 2.0 refers to a ‘second generation’ of internet-based services that emphasise online collaboration and sharing among users, often allowing users to build connection between themselves and others.
Wikis are websites where content can be edited by any visitor to the site. An example of a wiki is Wikipedia – an online encyclopaedia providing free content to all visitors and to which any visitor can add their own information or make corrections simply by clicking the edit this page link.
Y
YouTube allows people to post their own videos for others to watch, to give opinions on the content that is there, and to make links between videos. TeacherTube channel where users can host, tag and share instructional videos.
Sources: Demos, Wikipedia
