1. Common Online Terminologies
Roxas, Nedilei Janmarie P.
Bachelor of Elementary Education
Major in Preschool Education
University of Santo Tomas
2. Email
• Electronic Mail
• method of exchanging digital messages from
an author to one or more recipients. Modern
email operates across the Internet or
other computer networks.
3. Wiki
• is a server program that allows users to
collaborate in forming the content of a Web
site.
• The term comes from the word "wikiwiki,"
which means "fast" in the Hawaiian language.
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4. Social Bookmarking
• is a centralized online service which enables
users to add, annotate, edit, and share
bookmarks of web documents.
(www.wikipedia.com)
5. HTML
• Hypertext Markup Language
• It is a standardized system for tagging text files
to achieve font, color, graphic, and hyperlink
effects on World Wide Web pages.
6. Podcast
• It is a file on the Internet that is available for
downloading to a computer, media
player, iPod etc.
7. VoIP
• Defined as Voice over Internet Protocol
• Its allows the user to have telephone calls
over computer networks like the Internet.
8. Chat
• It allows the user to connect and make
interactions over the Internet. It also offers a
very fast transmission of text messages from
the sender to the receiver.
9. WWW
• World Wide Web
• all the resources and users on the Internet
that are using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol
(HTTP)
10. Streaming
• relating to or being the transfer of data (as
audio or video material) in a
continuous stream especially for immediate
processing or playback
11. Blog
• It is an informational site where everyone can
publish an article. They can also make a
discussion in the particular article which they
find interesting. It allows them to share
information and their opinions and ideas.
12. Social Networking
• The use of websites where it allows the users
to reach and communicate with other people.
It also gives them the freedom to share their
ideas, opinions and other things.
13. URL
• Uniform Resource Locator
• is a specific character string that constitutes a
reference to a resource.
14. Web Feed
• is a data format used for providing users with
frequently updated content.
