Technology For Success Module 2 Notes
Wiki
A collaborative website where you & your colleagues can modify & publish content on a webpage
Index
A collection of the webpage's terms & their locations
Website
A collection of web pages (pages) that focuses on a specific topic, business, or purpose
Citation
A formal reference to a source
Query
A general search engine refers to its database index & then lists pages that match your search term, ranked by how closely they answer your query
Internet
A global collection of millions of computers linked together to share information worldwide
Creative Commons (CC)
A nonprofit organization that helps content creators keep the copyright to their materials while allowing others to use, copy, or distribute their work
Wildcard
A placeholder for any number of characters
Server
A powerful networked computer that provides resources to other computers.
Encryption
A security method that scrambles or codes data as it is transmitted over a network so it is not readable until it is decrypted
3D Secure
A standard protocol for securing credit card transactions over the Internet. Using both encryption and digital certificates, 3D Secure provides an extra layer of security on a website.
Protocol
A standardized procedure computers use to exchange information
Citation style
A type of style that you use to citate text when writing a research paper, such as MLA, APA, or Chicago
IP address
A unique number that consists of 4 sets of numbers from 0 to 255 separated by periods, or dots
Web portal (portal)
A website that combines pages from many sources & provides access to those pages (Ex: Bank website)
Online social network (social networking site, social media site)
A website that encourages members to share their interests, ideas, stories, photos, music, & videos online with other registered users (Ex: Facebook, Instagram)
Fair use doctrine
Allows you to use a sentence or paragraph of text without permission if you include a citation to the original source
General search engine
An Internet browser that you use to enter a search term or phrase. It does not search the entire internet but compiles a database of info about web pages.
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
An address that identifies the location of the page on the Internet
Browser
An app designed to display webpages (google chrome, safari, edge, etc).
Webpage
An electronic document that can contain text, graphics, sound, video, & links to other webpages
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)
An encrypted website connection displays https instead of http in the URL. The "s" in https stands for "secure," and makes a secure connection to your computer
Web directory (subject directory)
An online guide to subjects or websites, usually arranged in alphabetic order
Public Technical Identifiers (PTI)
An organization that approves and controls Top-Level Domains.
Web apps
Apps that you can run entirely in a browser
E-commerce (electronic commerce)
Business transactions on an electronic network
Search operators (Boolean operators)
Characters, words, or symbols that focus the search
Specialized search tools
Concentrate on specific resources, such as scholarly journals
Business-To-Business (B2B)
Consists of businesses providing goods & services to other businesses. Ex: Market research websites, raw materials, etc.
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Consists of hundreds of organizations & experts that work together to write web standards. The W3C publishes standards on topics ranging from building webpages, to technologies for enabling web access from any device, to browser and search engine design.
Electronic storefront
Contains product descriptions, images, & a shopping cart to collect items you want to purchase
Web server
Delivers webpages to computers requesting the pages through a browser
Transport Layer Security (TLS)
Encrypts data & helps protect consumers & businesses from fraud & identity theft when conducting commerce on the Internet
Snopes.com & factcheck.org
Fact-checking sites that you use to find professionally researched information
Quotation Marks ( " " )
Find webpages with the exact words in the same order. EX: "augmented reality" in business
Pound, Dot, Dot, Pound ( #..# )
Find webpages within a range of numbers. EX: augmented reality 2017..2022
Search tool
Finds online information based on criteria you specify or selections you make
Content aggregator
Gathers, organizes, & then distributes web content. As a subscriber, you choose the type of content you want and receive updates when new content is available. (Ex: News360, Reddit)
Copyright
Gives authors & artists the legal right to sell, publish, or distribute an original work
Web (World Wide Web)
Has changed the way people access information, conduct business transactions, & communicate
Information literacy
How you find, evaluate, use, & communicate online information
Domain name
Identifies 1 or more IP addresses
Navigation bar
Includes buttons such as Back & Forward that you can use to revisit webpages along the breadcrumb path
Usage rights
Indicate when you can use, share, or modify the images you find online
Blogs
Informal websites with time-stamped articles, or posts, in a diary or journal format
Business-To-Consumer (B2C)
Involves the sale of goods & services to the general public. Ex: shopping websites.
Intellectual property rights
Legal rights protecting those who create works
Specialty search engine
Lets you search databases, news providers, podcasts, & other online information sources that general search engines do not always access
Media sharing site
Manages media & shares them with other site members (Ex: Youtube, Flickr))
Navigate
Move from 1 webpage to another
Hyphen ( - )
NOT. EX: augmented reality -virtual
Consumer-To-Consumer (C2C)
Occurs when 1 consumer sells directly to another. Ex: Online Auctions.
Vertical Bar ( | )
Or. EX: augmented | virtual
Paraphrase
Restate an idea using words different from those used in the original text
Cookies
Small text files generated by a web server that act like a storage bin for the items you place in your shopping cart
Search engines
Software designed to find web pages based on your search criteria (Ex: Chrome, Bing, etc)
Spiders (crawlers)
Software that combs the web to find web pages & add new data about them to the database
App (application)
Software that you use to perform a task
Digital Rights Management (DRM)
Techniques that limit access to proprietary materials such as authentication, copy protection, or encryption that limit access to proprietary materials.
Top-Level Domain (TLD)
The 3-letter extension after the period (.com, .net. org, etc)
Server Address
The address of the server storing the webpage. (EX: www.cengage.com)
Pathname
The address to the folder containing the webpage (EX: .../student/index.html)
Address bar
The bar that displays the URL for the current webpage or lets you type the URL of the webpage you want to display
Word stem
The base of a word to broaden a search
Public domain
The item is available & accessible to the public without requiring permission to use, & therefore not subject to copyright
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
The most common way to transfer information around the web or retrieve the page
Hits
The most relevant results on the 1st page
File name
The name of the webpage file
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
The non-profit group that sets standards that allow devices, services, & applications to work together across the Internet. For example, the IETF sets standards for IP addresses. Other standards set rules for routing data, securing websites, and developing guidelines for responsible Internet use.
Congress.gov
The online database of United States Congress legislative information
Breadcrumbs
The paths that you followed to display a webpage
Ethics
The set of moral principles that govern people's behavior
Cache
The tool that keeps a copy of each page you view so that it loads a webpage more quickly the next time you go to the webpage
Home page (start page)
The webpage that appears when you open a browser
Keywords
The words that best describe what you want to find & produce a list of results that include the words or phrase
Plagiarism
Using the work or ideas of someone else & claiming them as your own
Digital certificate
Verifies the identity of the organization & vouch for the authenticity of the website
Star ( * )
Wildcard (placeholder for any number of characters): augment* reality
Hyperlinks (links)
Words or graphics you can click to display a webpage or other resource on the Internet