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 * Tech-tionary is a resource of key Web 2.0 tools and technology. **

||< Audacity is a digital audio editor and recording application. You can use **Audacity** to record live audio or convert a recording. || ||< A Blog is short for web log. A blog is a personal online journal that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs are defined by their format: a series of journal type entries posted to a single page in reverse-chronological order.
 * < **1.** **Audac****i****ty**
 * < **2.** **Blog**

Moblogging: Short for mobile blogging, moblogging refers to posting blog updates from a cell phone, camera phone or pda (personal digital assistant). Mobloggers may update their web sites more frequently than other bloggers, because they don't have to be at their computers in order to post. || ||< A licensing concept created by Creative Commons that builds upon traditional copyright practices to define possibilities that exist between the standard "all rights reserved" full copyright and public domain "no rights reserved". A Creative Commons license lets you dictate how others may use your work. The Creative Commons license allows you to keep your copyright but allows others to copy and distribute your work provided they give you credit and only on the conditions you specify. For online work you can select a license that generates "Some Rights Reserved" or a "No Rights Reserved" button and statement for your published work.
 * < **3.** **Creative Commons License**

One of the primary uses of a Creative Commons license is to allow people to copy the material as long as it is not made a part of any commercial venture. || ||< A method of including information from one application in another. For instance, a graph from a spreadsheet, the source, could be embedded in a word-processor document, the destination. Embedding is different from copying in that the application that created the embedded information can be started up from within the destination application if any modification is required. Embedding is also different from linking, where no information is copied into the destination, only the whereabouts of the source and what application created it. || ||< Flickr is a popular photo sharing website, owned by Yahoo, that allows members to upload their own photos into customizable albums that can then be labeled, organized, tagged, and publicly posted. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository || ||< A n outdoor activity in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers (called "geocaches" or "caches") anywhere in the world. A great tool for applying knowledge and understanding of direction, location, map skills and navigation. || ||< A new Web 2.0 phenomenon that provides users with a revolutionary way of expressing their mood, feelings and ideas. Glogster is a new way to create old fashioned poster projects using the computer and the web. || ||< G-mail, free web-based email system developed by Google. || as Word, PPT, PDF and other formats. Other features enable you to view revision history of your documents and revert back to any version. Google Docs is intended to be used as a collaborative tool where groups of people can edit, add to and create documents, papers, research, presentations, etc. together. || ||< Google Earth is a desktop application for a Mac, PC, or Linux computer that allows you to navigate the planet Earth from multiple views. Google Earth combines satellite photos and maps with a search engine to allow you search to find directions and specific addresses or general locations and services. || ||< Google Groups is a free service from Google where groups of people have discussions about common interests. It can be used as a platform to gather projects, papers and presentations of a group or a class. || ||< Stands for Global Positioning System…it is a radio navigation system that allows land, sea, and airborne users to determine their exact location, velocity, and time 24 hours a day, in all weather conditions, anywhere in the world. || ||< A web service or software tool that combines two or more tools to create a whole new service. An example is ChicagoCrime, which merges Google Maps with the Chicago police department's crime tracking web site to offer a map of crime in different parts of Chicago. || ||< Stands for "Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment." Moodle is a free open source course management system or Virtual Learning Environment. Moodle allows educators to create online courses, which students can access as a virtual classroom. || ||< In general, open source refers to any program whose source code is made available for use or modification as users or other developers see fit. Open source software is usually developed as a public collaboration and made freely available. || ||< A podcast is a pre-recorded audio or video program that's posted to a website and is made available for download so people can listen to them on personal computers or mobile devices like iPods. || ||< Real-time collaboration is using the Internet and technology to communicate with co-workers as if they were in the same room, even if they are located on the other side of the world. Real-time collaboration involves several kinds of communication tools such as: ||< SchoolTube is a fully moderated, tightly managed video sharing site where teachers have full control over content. By definition, this means the site and videos are school-safe! Teachers create “moderator” accounts and are given the ability to decide what videos go onto the site. Even if something inappropriate gets sent in, it would still be subject to review by SchoolTube staff. || ||< Skype is a way to make free phone calls to anyone anywhere in the world, using a microphone and an Internet connection. In addition, you can use Skype to chat with people, send files, make conference calls, and video calls, all over the Internet. As long as you use Skype from computer-to-computer only (not the phone feature) all calls are free. || ||< The term "SmartBoard" is actually a trademarked brand of device generically referred to as an Interactive White Board. An Interactive White Board is a name for a device that, when used with a computer and some type of video display, makes the surface of the board become touch sensitive in some manner and allows it to be used to control the computer and make lessons and presentations interactive and engaging. || ||< In the online world social networking is the term used to describe the way that users build online networks of contacts and interact with personal or business friends in a secure environment. Some of the most popular social networking sites include Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. Social networking sites help people discover new friends or colleagues by illuminating shared interests, related skills, or a common geographic location. || ||< Tags are keywords that describe the content of a web site, bookmark, photo or blog post. You can assign multiple tags to the same online resource, and different people can assign different tags to the same resource. Tags provide a useful way of organizing, retrieving and discovering information. || ||< TeacherTube is an online community for sharing instructional videos. It is fairly new to the web, launched in March 2007, and completely free to the public. This tool can be used to provide professional development (teachers teaching teachers), to share videos with students (either in a distance ed. setting or in a face to face setting), as a project sharing medium for students, and as a sharing of lesson plans and teaching tools in a particular subject or field. || ||< This is a micro-blogging tool. It asks “what are you doing?” It’s similar to a chat room, with 200 or less character updates. || ||< Web 2.0 is the term given to describe a second generation of the World Wide Web that is focused on the ability of people to collaborate and share information online. A Web 2.0 site allows its users to interact and collaborate with other users or to change website content. The key to Web 2.0 is the ability to collaborate with others over the internet instead of needing to go through a webmaster. [ ||
 * < **4.** **Embedding**
 * < **5.** **Flickr**
 * < **6.** **Geocaching**
 * < **7.** **Glogster**
 * < **8.** **G-Mail**
 * < **9.** **Google Docs (****Documents)**[[image:Picture9.jpg]] ||< Google Docs & Spreadsheets provides an online editor to format documents, and also lets users upload Word documents, HTML or text. You can also download documents to your desktop [[image:file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CMMCLAU%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_image019.gif width="22" height="22" caption="http://kona.kontera.com/javascript/lib/imgs/grey_loader.gif"]]
 * < **10.** **Google Earth**
 * < **11.** **Google Group**
 * < **12.** **G****PS**
 * < **13.** **Mashup**
 * < **14.** **Moodle**
 * < **15.** **Op****e****n** **Source**
 * < **16.** **Podcast**
 * < **17.** **Real-time collaboration**
 * Instant messaging
 * Group chat
 * Whiteboard collaboration
 * Google Docs
 * Skype, etc. ||
 * < **18.** **RSS**[[image:Picture27.jpg]] ||< RSS is most commonly translated as "Really Simple Syndication" but sometimes as "Rich Site Summary". RSS is a format for storing online information in a way that makes that information readable by lots of different kinds of software. It is used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news story headlines, audio, and video. ||
 * < **19.** **SchoolTube**
 * < **20.** **Skype**
 * < **21.** **SmartBoard**
 * < **22.** **Social Networking**
 * < **23.** **Tags**
 * < **24.** **TeacherTube**
 * < **25.** **Twitter**
 * < **26.** **Web 2.0**
 * < **27.** **Widget**

||< In computers, a widget is an element of a graphical user interface that displays information or provides a specific way for a user to interact with the operating system and application. Widgets include icons, pull-down menus, buttons, selection boxes, progress indicators, on-off checkmarks, scroll bars, windows, window edges (that let you resize the window), toggle buttons, forms, and many other devices for displaying information and for inviting, accepting, and responding to user actions. || ||< A wiki is a collaboratively edited web page that allows users to add and update content on the site using their own Web browser such as Wikispaces, PB Wiki, Wet Paint, etc. Wikis end up being created mainly by a collaborative effort of the site visitors. The best known example is of a wiki is Wikipedia, an encyclopedia that anyone in the world can help to write or update. Wikis are frequently used to allow people to write a document together, or to share reference material that lets colleagues or even members of the public contribute content.
 * < **28.** **Wiki**

A wiki is similar to a blog but in contrast, a blog, does not allow visitors to change the original posted material, only add comments to the original content. || ||< Windows Movie Maker is a video creating/editing software that can be downloaded onto a computer. Windows Movie Maker makes digital home movies amazingly easy and fun. Can be used for school and classroom instruction or projects. || ||< YouTube is a very popular Web video sharing site that lets anyone store short videos for private or public viewing. Users can view and rate videos and upload their own. ||
 * < **29.** **Windows Movie Maker**
 * < **30.** **YouTube**

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