This document defines and provides brief descriptions of common internet and web-related terms. It explains email, blogs, online chat, bookmarks, URLs, streaming, podcasts, VoIP, wikis, social networking, the World Wide Web, HTML, and web feeds. Examples and related links are included for some terms. The document serves as a reference guide for basic digital literacy and web terminology.

1. Chrizia Oñate
Bachelor of Secondary Education
University of Santo Tomas

2. • Email or E-mail is the
shortened term for
“electronic mail”
• It is a text that may
have some file
attachments to be
sent to an individual
through the internet.
• Some examples are:
Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, etc.

3. Blog (noun): a journal or diary that’s
on the internet
- A blog is an individual’s journal,
online.
- It may be posted in a certain blog
site, or in your own personalized
site(s).

4. - Online chat is the type
of communication
done over the internet.
- It is on a real-time
transmission of texts
from one chatter to
another.

5. It is tagging a website
and saving it for later.
Instead of saving them
to your web browser,
you are saving them to
the web. And, because
your bookmarks are
online, you can easily
share them with friends.
http://webtrends.about.com/od/socialbookmarking10
1/p/aboutsocialtags.htm

6. • Uniform Resource
Locator
• It is the global access
of documents and
other resources in the
World Wide Web.
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM
/U/URL.html

7. • Streaming or media
streaming is a
technique for
transferring data so
that it can be
processed as a steady
and continuous
stream.
http://www.webopedia.com/
TERM/S/streaming.html

8. • Podcast is a digital
medium consisting of
episodic series of
videos, audios, PDF
files, etc. that are
downloaded online.

9. • Voice over Internet
Protocol (VoIP) is a
methodology and group
of technologies for the
delivery of voice
communications and
multimedia sessions
over Internet Protocol
(IP) networks, such as
the Internet.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice
_over_IP

10. • A wiki is usually a web
application which
allows people to add,
modify, or delete
content in
collaboration with
others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

11. • A social networking service is
an online site that focuses on
facilitating the building of social
relations among people who
share interests, activities,
backgrounds, or real-life
connections.
• Such as:
Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc..

12. • Stands for “World
Wide Web”
• A system of Internet
servers that support
specially formatted
documents called the
HTML.

13. • “HyperText Markup
Language”
• The main markup
language for creating
web pages.

14. • A web feed is a data
format used for
providing users with
frequently updated
content.

15. • http://mashable.com/category/social-networking/
• http://webtrends.about.com/od/socialbookmarking101/p/a
boutsocialtags.htm
• http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/U/URL.html
• http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/streaming.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_over_IP
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
• http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/World_Wide_Web.h
tml
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed