Flashcards
Online Communities
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- 1What Are Online Communities?Places online where people can form groups or societies.
- 2What Is A Network Of Friends?Where
the community involves a group of people who keep in up-to-date contact with each
other. - 3What Is The Online Virtual World?This is an unreal world
created by the computer. Popular examples include SecondLife, Twinity and Habbo. The World of Warcraft virtual world is another popular example of a large interactive
gaming virtual world which supports multi-player gaming. - 4What Is A Netiquette?A netiquette is a set of rules designed to prevent abusive behaviour online. If a user breaks netiquette then other users can report them.
- 5What Are Online Information Exchanges?Online communities make use of contemporary social media to publish, access and exchange information.
- 6Examples Of Information ExchangesWeb Logs/Blogs
Microblogging Sites
Wikis
Chatrooms - 7What Is A Web Blog/Log And An ExampleThere are frequently updated online journals with diary-like entries which allow people to express their thoughts and feelings and give details of their daily activities. Typically, a blog includes text, photos and sometimes video.
An example is tumblr, YouTube... - 8What Is A Microblogging Site And An ExampleThese are sites which allows users to create and exchange
really short text entries. A popular example of this type of site is Twitter™. - 9What Is A Wiki And An ExampleThese are websites that provide information that visitors to the site can
extend and edit. They allow users to share information and are useful for research.
The best-known example of a wiki is Wikipedia. - 10What Is A Chatroom And An ExampleOnline communication within communities is sometimes referred to as
chat. Some of the large interactive communities where people take part in the same conversation or type of chat at the same time are known as chatrooms . - 11What Are Podcasts?Podcasts are a series of audio or video files that can be downloaded from the internet. If a video is published in episodes like a blog, then this process is known as a vlog.
- 12An Example Of A PodcastYouTube is an example of a video-sharing website where individuals can
share vlogs. - 13What Are Virtual Learning Environments?A school community may make use of a VLE to distribute resources, support learning and assess progress online. A VLE is an education system based on web facilities. The system is a virtual world which mirrors the real world of education – it contains learning materials, tests, projects, lectures/lessons and allows interaction between teachers and learners.
Sometimes the system can work in real time. Lectures and lesson notes, as well as exercises are all held on the system and can be accessed by the learner. Learners ’hand in’ their work to their teacher electronically using the VLE. Teachers assess the work online and give feedback electronically via the VLE. - 14What Are Social Networking Sites?Social networking sites allow members of the online community to interact and communicate by setting up a profile . Users can then add links to friends’ profiles and post personal information,
including photographs, videos, favourite music and blog entries. - 15Examples Of Social Networking SitesFacebook, Twitter™, LinkedIn, Google+, MySpace...