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
- W3C
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World Wide Web Consortium, an organization developing interoperable specifications, software, and tools for the WWW.
Source: Learning Circuits
- WAN
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Stands for Wide Area Network. A network of computers that covers a large geographical distance.
- WAP (wireless application protocol)
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Specification that allows Internet content to be read by wireless devices.
Source: Learning Circuits
- 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.
