• Blog--Short for web log, or online journal
• Blogosphere--the “universe” of blogs as a whole.
• Blogroll--A collection of links to other people’s blogs
• Edublogosphere--The same as blogosphere, but applied to education blogs
• Open source software--Software which is distributed free of charge with its source code, enabling others to take part in developing it
• Podcast--audio recording that you can subscribe to via RSS and listen to on a
  computer or an mp3 player
• Semantic web--extension of the web that will allow people to find,
  share, and combine information more easily
• Vlog--is similar to an ordinary blog, but uses video rather than text
• VLE--(Virtual learning environment) software which allows teachers to track students’
  progress, manage course content etc.
• VoIP--Free internet telephone calls, often with video or shared desktop facilities; the
  market leader is Skype (http://www.skype.com/)
• Static content web sites--Documents or multi-media made available for download
• RSS (really simple syndication)--RSS allows you to subscribe and read news from your
  favourite websites, without having to visit each site
• Social bookmarking sites--way to store, classify, share and search links through the practice of folksonomy techniques on the Internet or Intranet.
  (example facebook and myspace)
• Social bookmarking has three key benefits:
  • Access your bookmarks anywhere
  • Share your bookmarks with friends/colleagues
  • See what others are bookmarking by way of interesting
  tags