8th Grade Vocabulary Quiz

Is used to refer to a new way of utilizing the Web technology to facilitate creativity, collaboration and inter-user cooperation.  This new world arose as Web-based communities and services such as blogs, wikis, social-networking sites, and user-created video sharing.  The term developed to suggest improvement over the “old” version of the flat, non-interactive Web, which primarily comprised of users visiting read-only Web sites.

Web site with journal-style entries listed in reverse chronological order.  A typical blog combines text, images and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. 

Software that permits users to create, edit, and link Web pages easily.  Often used to form collaborative Web sites and to power community Web sites.  Wikipedia is perhaps the best-known wiki and in an arena for users to define topics. 

Is built upon social networks that are set up for people who share interests, activities, or are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others while online. 

The process of creating labels for online content. 

A term that describes the function of Web sites that facilitate tagging.  Is also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging. 

A family of Web feeds formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines, or podcasts. 

 A collection of digital media files distributed over the Internet using syndication feed for playback on media players or personal computers. 

A computer-based, simulated environment intended for its users to inhabit and interact via “avatar” identities.  This habitation is represented in the form of two or three-dimensional graphics. 

The software you need to look at World Wide Web pages on the Internet.

Electronic mail, or notes sent over the Internet from one user to another using a modem

A world-wide network of networks connected through cables, phone lines, satellites, and wireless machines.  Always has a capital “I”. 

Highlighted text in an Internet document that connects to another document. 

Several computers connected together so they can share information and programs.  The Internet is the world’s largest network.

Where you are when your computer is connected to the Internet

Universal Resource Locator, or the address you type in to get to a World Wide Web site.

A computer and software that manage the flow of information on a computer network. 

He programs that tell your computer how to carry out your commands. 

Short for megabyte, a unit of memory or storage capacity.

Where a computer’s information lives.  Many complicated circuits etched onto a small piece of silicon. 

A special kind of telephone hookup that lets one computer talk to another computer. 

When a child pre teen or teen is tormented or threatened online.

An adult Interent user who exploits vulnerable children or teen usually for sexual or other abusive purposes.

When people take and send sexually revealing pictures of themselves or send sexually explicit messages via text message.

A form of fraud or cheating of another peron's identity in which someone pretends to be someone else by assuming that person's identity.