Educational Technology

Teaching and Learning With Internet Technologies.

COMMUNICATION ON THE INTERNET 
  Emails
Distribution or exchange of electronic mails, from one computer to recipients via a network.

Mailing Lists/Listservs
This is a program, on the internet, that stores and maintains mailing lists and alllows a message to be sent simultaneously to everyone on the list.

Newsgroups
This is a discussion via the internet, on popular topics. 

Wikis
A collection of web pages located in an online community that encourages collaboration and communicatio of ideas by having users contribute or modify contents; contain the ongoing work of many authors.

Blogs
Short for 'web log' a web page that serves as a publicly accessible location for discussing a topic or issue; began as personal journals and expanded to become public discussion forums in which anyone can give opinions on a topic.

Chatrooms 
A location on the internet set to allow people to converse in real time by typing in messages or allowing their avatars to meet and talk to each other.

Discussion/Instant Messaging
A communication service that allows users to create a private chat room which only members of the mutually agreed-upon list may enter. the systems alerts a user when a member from the IM list that someone is online.

Videoconferencing
 An online meeting between two or more participants at different sites using; a computer or network with appropriate software; video cameras, microphone speakers and telephone lines or other cabling to transmit audio or video signals. 

Twitter 
An online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them.

Facebook 
An American for-profit corporation and online social media and social networking service based in Menlo Park, California, United States.

Myspace
 A social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos.

Diigo
A social bookmarking website that allows signed-up users to bookmark and tag Web pages. Users can highlight any part of a webpage and attach sticky notes to specific highlights or to a whole page.

Google Chrome
 A freeware web browser developed by Google.

RESEARCH TEACHING AND LEARNING

Podcast 
A digital audio file made available on the Internet for downloading to a computer or portable media player, typically available as a series, new instalments of which can be received by subscribers automatically.

LMS
A learning management system (LMS) is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery of electronic educational technology (also called e-learning) courses or training programs. 

Features

Blackboard
A virtual learning environment and course management system developed by Blackboard Inc. It is Web-based server software which features course management, customizable open architecture, and scalable design that allows integration with student information systems and authentication protocols. 

Moodle
A learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalised learning environments. 

RSS 
Rich Site Summary is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.

WEB SERVICES

Hosted services
Technology services offered to you or your company by a provider that hosts the physical servers running that service somewhere else. Access to the service is usually provided through a direct network connection that may or may not run via the Internet.

WEB PAGE DEVELOPMENT

TOOLS

Dreamweaver
Adobe Dreamweaver is an application used by web designers and developers to create websites and applications for use across multiple targets. Including browsers, devices, and tablets. Web designers use Dreamweaver for creating website prototypes using web-friendly artwork.

CMS
A content management system  is a software application or set of related programs that are used to create and manage digital content. CMSes are typically used for enterprise content management (ECM) and web content management(WCM), which facilitates collaborative authoring for websites.

Google Sites
A structured wiki- and Web page-creation tool offered by Google as part of the G Suite productivity suite.