Twitter Reflection

                                                    

      Thousands of academics and researchers at all levels of experience and across all disciplines already use Twitter daily, there are a few ideas on how to successfully use Twitter in education. one of the best things about Twitter is that the tool enables direct contact with leaders in any given field. Encourage students to ask questions from famous scientists. Even if they don’t immediately reply, other experts may try to answer the student’s enquiry, most of the scientists and experts attempt to make up-to-date information daily Also by creating their own hashtag, students can invite participants from around the world to take part in instant research by contributing to a live discussion on any issue. Furthermore, Students may wish to quote some of the responses to a Twitter chat in their research – a great way to provide immediacy and individual views to project work. Help your fellow students get a better understanding of a hard topic for class. If you found an interesting article, a website or even someone worth following on Twitter, share it with other students. The same goes for teachers, who should definitely share educational materials and links with students using Twitter as the main platform.

Internet Glossary Task

Broadband

Broadband Internet service truly is most used form of Internet access because of its high access speeds

Browser

A browser is software that is used to access the internet. A browser lets you visit websites and do activities within them like login, view multimedia, link from one site to another.

Chat

Chat is a text-based communication that is live or in real-time.

Cloud computing

The practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer.

Domain name

Domain Name System or DNS is the friendly naming system for giving addresses to web servers and web pages. For example: com

Download

Downloading is the transmission of a file from one computer system to another

Driver

In computing, a device driver (commonly referred to as a driver) is a computer program that operates or controls a particular type of device that is attached to a computer. For example: printer driver.

Emoticon

An emoticon is a short sequence of keyboard letters and symbols, usually emulating a facial expression that complements a text message.

Firewall

A firewall is a network security system, either hardware -or software- based, that controls incoming and outgoing network traffic based on a set of rules.

HTML

HTML is short for Hypertext Mark-up Language. That may sound scary. Put in simply means it is a language for describing web-pages using ordinary. HTML is not a complex programming language.

Internet

The internet can be defined as the wired or wireless mode of communication through which one can receive, transmit information that can be used for single or multiple operations

ISP

An Internet Service Provider (ISP) is the industry term for the company that is able to provide you with access to the Internet, for example: Optus.

Login name

A unique sequence of characters used to identify a user and allow access to a computer system, computer network, or online account.

Modem

Short for modulator-demodulator. A modem is a device or program that enables a computer to transmit data over.

Netiquette

The correct or acceptable way of using the Internet.

Internet Glossary:

Plug-in

Plug-in applications are programs that can easily be installed and used as part of your Web browser, for example: silver light.

Search engine

A browser, short for web browser, is the software application (a program) that you’re using right now to search for, reach and explore websites.

Server

In information technology, a server is a computer program that proides services to other computer programs in the same or other computers

Upload

Transfer (data) from one computer to another, typically to one that is larger or remote from the user or functioning as a server.

URL

URL is the abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator. URL is the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web.

VOIP

VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is an exciting technology that is changing the way people talk.

Webcam

A webcam is a hardware camera connected to a computer that allows anyone connected to the Internet to view either still pictures or motion video of a user or other object.

World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (WWW) is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by URLs, interlinked by hypertext links, and can be accessed via the Internet.