Online forum is a place where people having a discussion about any issue.People participating in an internet forum may cultivate social bonds and interest groups for a topic made from the discussions. Most online forums require registration to post.
- Troll
- Is a user that create problem in the forum by repeatedly and intentionally breaches netiquette, often posting derogatory or otherwise inflammatory messages about sensitive topics in an established online community to bait users into responding, often starting flame wars.
- Spamming
- Is a breach of netiquette where users repeat the same word or phrase over and over, but differs from multiple posting in that spamming is usually a willful act which sometimes has malicious intent.
- User Groups
- Privileges and rights are given based on user groups. The privilege is set by the administrator.
- Moderator
- The moderators are users of the forum who are granted access to the posts and threads of all members for the purpose of moderating discussion and also keeping the forum clean.
- Administrator
- The administrators manage the technical details required for running the site.
- Post
- A post is a user submitted message enclosed into a block containing the user's details and the date and time it was submitted.
- Thread
- A thread is defined by a title, an additional description that may summarize the intended discussion, and an opening or original post (common abbreviation 'OP', which can also mean original poster) which opens whatever dialogue or makes whatever announcement the poster wished. A thread can contain any number of posts, including multiple posts from the same members, even if they are one after the other.
- Private Message
- A private message, or PM for short, is a message sent in private from a member to one or more other members.
- Emoticon
- Emoticon or smiley is a symbol or combination of symbols used to convey emotional content in written or message form.
Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. It is also a combination of a CGI script and a collection of plain text files that allows users to create Web pages “on the fly.”
- Editing Wikis
- Ordinarily, the structure and formatting of wiki pages are specified with a simplified markup language, sometimes known as "wikitext".
- The style and syntax of wikitexts can vary greatly among wiki implementations, some of which also allow HTML tags.
- Wikis therefore favour plain text editing, with fewer and simpler conventions than HTML, for indicating style and structure.
- Clicking “Edit” link, the script sends the raw text file to your browser in an editable form, allowing you to modify the content of the page.
- Pressing the “Save” button sends the modified text back to the wiki server, which replaces the existing text file with your changed version for all to see.
- Offer powerful yet flexible collaborative communication tool for developing content-specific Web sites.
A podcast is a series of digital media files (either audio or video) that are released episodically and downloaded through web syndication. Podcasting is a method of publishing audio files (usually MP3s) to the Web, which are then made available through subscription and automatically downloaded to a personal computer or portable MP3 player.
Podcasting could be used for:
• news/updates;
• guest lectures;
• student presentations;
• student-produced podcasts;
• interviews with guest experts;
• tours/fieldwork;
• internships/residencies;
• feedback/evaluation of student work;
• supplementary material such as speeches, music, or other audio recordings; and
• short language lessons, or other lessons that help students develop listening and speaking skills.
Second Life
Second Life is an online virtual world to interact with each other through avatars. Residents can explore the world (known as the grid), meet other residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, and create and trade virtual property and services with one another.
- Second life in education
- Second Life is used as a platform for education by many institutions, such as colleges, universities, libraries and government entities. Instructors and researchers in Second Life favor it because it is more personal than traditional distance learning. Research has uncovered development, teaching and/or learning activities which use Second Life in over 80 percent of UK universities. New educational institutions have also emerged that operate exclusively within Second Life, taking advantage of the platform to deliver a high quality service to a world wide audience at low cost.
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