This document defines common online terminology in 3 sentences or less per term. It explains that e-mail allows transmission of messages over connected networks, wikis are the simplest online databases, social bookmarking helps users share websites, HTML uses codes to format text, podcasts allow downloaded or streamed audio, VoIP converts analog to digital for phone calls, online chat facilitates text and video communication, www allows searching the internet, blogs are individual online spaces, URLs locate files on the internet, web feeds update frequently changing content, and streaming delivers media files.

1. Common Online Terminologies
Moon, DoYeon
Basic Elementary Education Major in
Preschool Education
University of Santo Tomas

2. E-mail
The E-mail (electronic mail) is the transmission of messages over communications networks.
The messages can send in everywhere the network is connect.
And it may contain files, images, or other attachments sent through a network to everyone
who you want to sent to.

3. WIKI
Wiki – from “wikiwiki,” which means “fast” in the Hawaiian language
It is described it as “the simplest online database that could possibly work.”
Other definition of wiki is the transnational online encyclopaedia.

4. Social Bookmarking
To define social bookmarking is to examine how they work.
It helps users to upload their own site or blog to share with people.

5. HTML
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) = set of mark up
symbols or codes inserted.

6. Podcast
Helps people download through web
syndication or streamed online to a computer or
mobile device.
It is from “broadcast” and “pod” from iPod.
It is an audio podcasts

7. VoIP
VoIP = Voice-over Internet Protocol
It is a system for converting analogue signals to
digital.

8. Online Chat
It is a kind of communication over the internet.
It may help people to make a friendship over the
internet.
It is not only a text message but it also can do
video call functions.

9. www
This is a world wide web
Through www we can search any
information which is in the internet.

10. Blog
It is a individual space inside the
internet. People may write about
anything that they are interest.

11. URL
The meaning of URL is =
uniform/universal resource locator
This is the address of the files inside the
internet.

12. Web Feed
This is a web page feed system.
- Alternative spelling of web feed

13. Streaming
A network of personal or business contacts, especially as
facilitated by social networking on the Internet.