Tech Talk

To be a constantly evolving page !
Web jargon is highly 'anagramistic'(coined term as far as I know) and it is important for educators to use distinctive, correct terminology and to also model this vocabulary with our students 

API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system

BACKCHANNEL

MOOC Massive Open Online Course

METADATA is essentially data which describes the contents of the data e.g books would have information regarding title, author, date of publication and ISBN

VLOG is a blog that combines embedded video or a video link with supporting text, images, and other meta-data