Glossary
PROMISLingua has a very innovative approach which requires a common understanding and a common nomenclature. The following section presents a list of specialist words and their definitions
- WBT (Web-based training)
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Delivery of educational content via a Web browser over the public Internet, a private intranet, or an extranet. Web-based training often provides links to other learning resources such as references, email, bulletin boards, and discussion groups.
WBT also may include a facilitator who can provide course guidelines, manage discussion boards, deliver lectures, and so forth. When used with a facilitator, WBT offers some advantages of instructor-led training while also retaining the advantages of computer-based training. Source: Learning Circuits
- Web Application
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An application in which all or part of it is downloaded from the Web each time it is run. The term typically refers to the use of Web browsers and Java applets. Web pages increasingly resemble the interactive behavior of local applications.
Retrieving a Web page may cause the execution of code in the Web server as well as code in the HTML page brought into the user's machine. Clicking an icon on a Web page may cause a Java applet to be downloaded and executed in the user's machine.
- Web conference
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(noun) A meeting of participants from disparate geographic locations that is held in a virtual environment on the World Wide Web, with communication taking place via text, audio, video, or a combination of those methods.
(verb) To participate in a Web conference. Source: Learning Circuits
- Web Page
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A Web page is a document written in HTML and meant to be viewed in a Web browser on the Internet or World Wide Web such as Netscape, Internet Explorer, or Opera.
- Web-based learning
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See Web-based training.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Webcast
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(Web + broadcast) (noun) A broadcast of video signals that is digitized and streamed on the World Wide Web, and which may also be made available for download.
(verb) To digitize and stream a broadcast on the World Wide Web. Source: Learning Circuits
- Webinar
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(Web + seminar) A small synchronous online learning event in which a presenter and audience members communicate via text chat or audio about concepts often illustrated via online slides and/or an electronic whiteboard. Webinars are often archived as well for asynchronous, on-demand access.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Website
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A set of files stored on the World Wide Web and viewed with a browser such as Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. A Website may consist of one or more Webpages.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Whois
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An Internet database that provides information on a person or an organization.
- Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity)
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1) Term developed by the Wi-Fi Alliance denoting products that can connect to each other without wires, acting as either wireless clients or base stations.
Products bearing a “Wi-fi certified” label should always be interoperable; some non-logoed products will interoperate as well.
2) Any network adhering to the IEEE 802.11 standard, including 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, and so forth. Source: Learning Circuits
- Wizard
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A mini-application that prompts a user through the steps of a particular computer-based action. The user provides necessary information as he or she proceeds through the wizard s screens, while the wizard completes the actual steps behind the scenes.
Source: Learning Circuits
- WML (Wireless Markup Language)
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XML-based language that allows a reduced version of Webpages text to be displayed on cellular phones and personal digital assistants.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Workstation
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1) A device, often a microcomputer, that serves as an interface between a user and a file server or host computer.
2) More generally, a computer or a computer terminal. Source: Learning Circuits
- WWW
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Stands for World Wide Web. A very popular Internet service that organizes information using a hypertext and hypermedia system of linking documents, FTP sites, gopher sites, WAIS, and telnet.
- XHTML
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XHTML eXtensible HyperText Markup Language. HTML re-written as an application of the XML language. See the W3C Working Draft: Building XHTML Modules
- XML (Extensible Markup Language)
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XML is the Extensible Markup Language, a system for defining specialized markup languages that are used to transmit formatted data. XML is conceptually related to HTML, but XML is not itself a markup language. Rather it's a metalanguage, a language used to create other specialized languages.
- XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language or eXtensible Style Language)
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A Webpage design language that creates style sheets for XML pages, which separate style from content so that developers can specify how and where information is displayed on the page.
Source: Learning Circuits
- ZIP
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An open standard for compression and decompression used widely for PC download archives, ZIP was developed by Phil Katz for his DOS-based program PKZip, and it is is now widely used on Windows-based programs such as WinZip and Drag and Zip. The file extension given to ZIP files is .zip.
- Zip disk
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Portable storage disk that can hold 100 or 250 MB of information, manufactured by the Iomega corporation. Used in a Zip drive, Zip disks can archive or back up large amounts of data.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Zip drive
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An external data storage device that reads Zip disks.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Zip file
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1) A file that has been compressed, often with the .ZIP format originated by PKWARE.
2) A file on a Zip disk, not necessarily compressed.
3) A compressed file with the .EXE extension that is self-extracting (can be unzipped simply by opening it). Source: Learning Circuits
