Glossary

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** Blog **
A web site on which an individual or group of users record opinions, information, etc. on a regular basis.

**Podcasting**
A digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a Web site to a media player or computer: e.g. //Download or subscribe to daily, one-hour podcasts of our radio show.//

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**QR Codes**
(Quick Response Code) is a two-dimensional matrix barcode that is readable by smartphones (iphone, Android, Blackberry) with cameras. After you have scanned the image (using a QR code reader downloaded via an app store), this will take you to a website, video, map, image...

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** RSS Feed **
RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’. RSS is a technology that is being used by millions of web users around the world to keep track of their favorite websites. In the ‘old days’ of the web to keep track of updates on a website you had to ‘bookmark’ websites in your browser and manually return to them on a regular basis to see what had been added. Many people describe it as a ‘news feed’ that you subscribe to. I find the ‘subscription’ description helpful. It’s like subscribing to a magazine that is delivered to you periodically but instead of it coming in your physical mail box each month when the magazine is published it is delivered to your ‘RSS Reader’ every time your favorite website updates.

** Twitter **
An online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".

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** Web Tools 2.0 **
Web 2.0 tools are the next generation of the internet where the content of the web is created or edited by end-users (either individually or collaboratively) rather than those few geeky computer nerds. Further, these sites often allow collaboration, sharing, and assimilation to bring about exchanges of ideas from many different perspectives in the form of text, photos, videos, and/or other multimedia components. Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking sites (facebook...), blogs, wiki's and video sharing sites (youtube....)

** Widget **
A web widget is a mini-web application you can put in your web page, blog or social profile that can quickly and easily provide your visitors with, user specific information, extra functionality, and even a bit of fun and games. Widgets provide websites (such as our blog's and wiki's) with fun text, buttons and slideshows. Check the 'widgets' page for ideas.

**Wikispaces**
A web site developed collaboratively by a community of users, allowing any user to add and edit content. Wiki stands for quick in Hawaiian.

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