Charles Brewer's List: DGL Vocabulary List

• Digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, share, and create content using information technologies and the Internet. As a Cornell student, activities including writing papers, creating multimedia presentations, and posting information about yourself or others online are all a part of your day-to-day life, and all of these activities require varying degrees of digital literacy. Is simply knowing how to do these things enough? No—there’s more to it than that.

• Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use. 

• "In today's digital environment the concept of identity is an issue of much greater complexity than it was in the days of the offline world. Our digital identity can exist in many forms and for many different purposes. Its existence on the Web becomes a currency that can be unscrupulously traded and abused.
  

• Digital security is a type of information security affecting all aspects of digital communication, including computers and the internet, telecommunications, financial transactions, transportation, healthcare, and secure access.

• Copyright:

   

  A form  of protection provided by the laws of the United States for "original works  of authorship", including literary, dramatic, musical, architectural, cartographic,  choreographic, pantomimic, pictorial, graphic, sculptural, and audiovisual  creations.   "Copyright" literally means the right to copy but has come to mean that body  of exclusive rights granted by law to copyright owners for protection of their  work. Copyright protection does not extend to any idea, procedure, process,  system, title, principle, or discovery. Similarly, names, titles, short phrases,  slogans, familiar symbols, mere variations of typographic ornamentation, lettering,  coloring, and listings of contents or ingredients are not subject to copyright.

• plagiarism occurs when a writer deliberately uses someone else’s language, ideas, or other original (not common-knowledge) material without acknowledg­ing its source.

• digital rights and responsibilities is having the right and freedom to use all types of digital technology while using the technology in an acceptable and appropriate manner. As a user of digital technology, you also have the right to privacy and the freedom of personal expression.

• “Collaborative media” is the term we use to refer to digital media that enables broad-range participation where the distinctions between production, consumption and design are dissolving

• false information deliberately and often covertly spread (as by the planting of rumors) in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth

• is part of an on-going, lifelong learning process of education.
  2. takes on different forms for different students.
  3. varies according to the subject and according to the students.
  4. involves the teacher and the learner in an interactive process.
• The students...
  learn through experience.
• 1. to promote the continuing growth of students' capabilities and powers.
  2. to create self-reliant learners, self-motivated students and life-long learners.

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• ethics refers to   well-founded standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought   to do, usually in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness,   or specific virtues.

• Blogging is the act of posting content on a blog (a Web log or online journal) or posting comments on someone else's blog.

• Networked Life looks at how our world is connected -- socially, strategically and technologically -- and why it matters.

• the activity of communicating with other people who have similar interests using a website that provides this service:

• A viral video is a video that becomes popular through the process of Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites, social media and email.

• Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.

• A meme is an idea that is passed on from one human generation to another. It's the cultural equivalent of a gene, the basic element of biological inheritance. The term was coined in 1976 by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene.

• Here you will find information from and be able to share information with other members of the networks you decide to join