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Amber Higgins's List: DGL Vocabulary
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Digital Immigrant
A person who is born before or outside of a digital environment and then chooses or is forced to adapt to the digital world.
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Researchers use the term digital immigrant to classify people born before the introduction of digital technology. For Digital Immigrants, the popular technology for them was radio, television, newspapers, books, and magazines. Digital Immigrants are adapting to the digital technology introduced during their life time. Ironically, some Digital Immigrants created the digital technology used by Digital Natives.
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A digital immigrant is an individual who was born before the existence of digital technology and adopted it to some extent later in life.
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Digital Native
A person who is born in an environment that uses digital technology regularly and is considered fluent in the digital language.
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Digital native is defined as native speaker of technology, fluent in digital language of computers, video games, and the Internet. (Marc Prensky) People who are not digital natives are called digital immigrants.
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Definition - What does Digital Native mean?
A digital native is an individual who was born after the widespread adoption of digital technology.
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Multimodal Society
A society in which communication is portrayed in many forms, not just by language.
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Multimodality is an inter-disciplinary approach that understands communication and representation to be more than about language. It has been developed over the past decade to systematically address much-debated questions about changes in society, for instance in relation to new media and technologies.
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A society having or involving several modes.
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Memes
A widespread picture, phrase, or imitation that is usually comedic, but can also have a different purpose.
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A meme is an idea or habit that's passed between people and generations through imitation. An example of a meme is the cultural tradition of women wearing skirts.
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Definition - What does Internet Meme mean?
An Internet meme is an activity, concept, catchphrase or piece of media that gains popularity and spreads rapidly via the Internet.
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Wikis
A web site in which a guide or list of information is compiled by users about a certain subject.
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A wiki (sometimes spelled "Wiki") is a server program that allows users to collaborate in forming the content of a Web site. With a wiki, any user can edit the site content, including other users' contributions, using a regular Web browser. Basically, a wiki Web site operates on a principle of collaborative trust. The term comes from the word "wikiwiki," which means "fast" in the Hawaiian language.
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A wiki is a Web site that allows users to add and update content on the site using their own Web browser.
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Viral Videos
A video that is widespread through internet sharing and becomes very popular.
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A viral video is a video clip that achieves widespread distribution through online sharing. The term viral is usually associated with a negative meaning. However, when it comes to marketing, viral means distribution through sharing, and that is positive. Unlike tradition marketing, viral marketing is mostly free. People take an advertisement and distribute it amongst themselves. A viral video is a video which is spread through online sharing, such as blogs, forums, email, and sharing sites. To be "viral", the video needs to be appealing to the audience, and it usually achieves this by being different, funny, and witty.
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A viral video is a video that becomes popular through the process of Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites, social media and email.
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Social Networking
A interactive website used for social interactions, whether they be business or personal.
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Social networking is the practice of expanding the number of one's business and/or social contacts by making connections through individuals.
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The term social network was originally coined to distinguish between networks that were used for business purposes and those that were used for socializing. The term has been extended to include interactive websites with message boards, chat rooms or the ability to leave comments and have a discussion with other people. Examples of websites that are primarily used for socializing include Facebook and MySpace.
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Blogging
A online personal journal or collection of web links.
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What's a blog?
A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world.
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Blog
<!-- between header and content <div class="ad-img1" ></div> -->Definition
A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links.
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Academic Integrity
The practice of honesty in all aspects of academic performance.
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Academic integrity is honesty concerning all aspects of academic performance.
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The Center for Academic Integrity defines academic integrity as "a commitment, even in the face of adversity, to five fundamental values: honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility
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Ethics
A guide in which right and wrong behavior can be judged by.
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Ethics are principles and values that guide right and wrong behavior. --- Submitted by Don Menzel dmenzel1@tampabay.rr.com
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The definition of "ethics" is somewhat consistent from scholar to scholar. According to the Josephson Institute, ethics is defined as:
Standards of conduct that indicate how one should behave based on moral duties and virtues.
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Independent Learning
A student who is able to take action and adapt to gain the ability to learn and evaluate new information.
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