Teaching 21st Century Learners: Basic Web 2.0 Vocabulary
2010
Vocabulary for Web 2.0
aggregation - gathering information from multiple web sites (Web 2.0: A Glossary)
aggregator - software or online service that collects RSS feeds (Web2 for Dev) e.g. http://www.bloglines.com
avatar - graphic representation of a person online (Library Instruction Wiki)
blog - short for weblog, a term used to describe web sites that maintain an onging chronicle of information,
are updated frequently, have links to web sites, and have content that ranges from personal to political,
narrow focus to a broad range of topics (Web2 for Dev) e.g. blogger and edublogs
creative commons** - has to do with the issue of copyright, a way to license your content so people can share
it (Glossary of Web 2.0 Terms and Tools)
Digg - social news site that allows you to vote for your favorite content (Glossary of Web 2.0 Terms and Tools)
digital storytelling - using new digital tools to help ordinary people tell their own real-life stories (Wikipedia)
flickr** - a popular photo sharing site, where creativity, design, and sharing are valued (Glossary of Web 2.0
Terms and Tools)
instant messaging - a communication service that enables you to create a kind of private chat room to
communicate in real time, text-based (Webopedia)
newsreader - a newsreader gathers the news from multiple blogs or news sites using RSS, allowing readers to
access all their news from a single web site or program (Web 2.0: A Glossary)
Ning - a tool to create social networks and communities (Top 100 Tools Ning) e.g. http://www.ning.com
podcast - media file that is distributed over the internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable
media players and personal computers (Web2 for Dev)
RSS - really simple syndication: a format for storing online information in a way that makes that information
readable by lots of different kinds of software. RSS is used by news websites, weblogs and podcasting (Web
2.0: A Glossary)
social bookmarks - web-based service to share internet bookmarks; allows you to put your bookmarks or
Teaching 21st Century Learners: Basic Web 2.0 Vocabulary
2010
favorites online e.g. del.icio.us and Kaboddle (Web2 for Dev)
social networking - web sites that help people discover new friends or colleagues by highlighting shared
interests, skills, or geographic location (Web 2.0: A Glossary); a broad term for a many-to-many approach to
online interactions (Library Instruction Wiki) e.g. MySpace, Facebook
Social software - type of software or web service that allows people to communicate and collaborate while
using the application (Web2 for Dev) e.g. email, blogs, IM
tag - keywords that describe the content of a web site, bookmark, photo, or blog post (Web 2.0: A Glossary)
tag cloud - visual depiction (weighted list) of user-generated tags (Wikipedia)
3D virtual environments like Second Life - internet based virtual world video game (Wikipedia)
twitter - like a "personal IM account that can be shared with everyone" (Twitter explained for librarians);
micro-blogging tool (Glossary of Web 2.0 Terms and Tools)
vlogging - video blogging (Wikipedia)
vodcasting - video podcasting (Wikipedia)
web 2.0 - the read/write web; the second generation of web-based services and tools which make content
creation on the web easier and more accessible to a wide variety of users (Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasts: Web 2.0
Tools You Can Use)
webcast - sends audio and/or video live over the internet (Web2 for Dev)
widget - used in social networking sites; look like rectangles; sit in sidebar; provides content from other web
locations (Library Instruction Wiki)
wiki - a web site that allows visitors to add, remove, edit and change content, also allows for linking among
any number of pages (Web2 for Dev)