The document defines and describes common online terminology used on the internet. It explains what email, blogs, online chat, social bookmarking, URLs, streaming, podcasts, wikis, HTML, VoIP, web feeds, social networking, and the WWW are and how people use them to communicate and share information online. The terms cover methods of online communication, organization of websites and content, sharing multimedia, and connecting with others through social media platforms.

1. Common Online
Terminologies
By: Joseph Gary Cruz
BSE College of Education
University of Santo Tomas

2. Email
• Email stands for Electronic mail
• Means of communication using the Internet.
• It helps us in sending school projects, business
proposals and many different kinds of files.

3. Blog
• It’s like posting what you like. You can put
images of you so that they can know what you
look like and how you carry yourself. Maybe
put some of your song covers that you’ve
recorded so that they can know how proud
you are with your amazing voice.

4. Online Chat
• It has a similarity with Email, but in this case
you are communicating with someone
through social networking sites and other sites
that can provide a chat.
• It helps us to talk to someone far away.

5. Social Bookmarking
• Helps you to organize sites in just one folder
or somewhere.
• Making it more organize enables you to find
something quick. You can put all multimedia
bookmarks in one folder and games on the
other.

6. URL
• URL or Uniform Resource Locator. Also known
as web address.
• It is where you put the address of the site that
you want to visit or to go to.
• This also helps us to know what is the site that
we are visiting.

7. Streaming
• It’s like a video. Watching things you want
through streaming
• There’s also live streaming where in you can
watch channels that are in your television
using other devices.

8. Podcast
• Podcast or Netcast.
• Similar to streaming this also gives us a chance
to watch videos and unlike streaming, this
allows us to hear audios and others.

9. Wiki
• Website that allows visitors to make
changes, contributions, or corrections about
texts that is posted or by just simply editing
texts in the site.

10. HTML
• Hyper Text Mark-up Language.
• Needed to create websites to be viewed on
the internet.
• You can build a web pages using notepad and
codes.

11. VoIP
• Voice over Internet Protocol.
• Method in delivering voice communications
and other multimedia files.

12. Web Feed
• Web feed or news feed.
• A data format used for providing users with
frequently updated content.

13. Social Networking
• These are sites that helps us with our social
life.
• We can post our status, feelings, photos,
videos, and others here.
• Some of the sites have games that we can play
with.
• Social networking connects people closer to
each other.

14. WWW
• World Wide Web.
• A system of interlinked hypertext documents
accessed via the internet. With a web
browser, one can view web pages that may
contain text, images, videos, and other
multimedia and navigate between them
via hyperlinks.

15. Some of the texts are from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page