Videoconferencing and Collaboration Vocabulary Test

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Videoconferencing and Collaboration Vocabulary
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Collaboration

• Process of working together toward a common
  purpose which is typically creative in nature.

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Bandwidth

• Refers to the capacity of your communications
  network to exhange data between two nodes on the
  network. It determines the amount of data that
  can be transmitted through network channels in a
  given amount of time.

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Bridge

• Technology that connects disparate sites for
  videoconferencing. Also called an MCU.

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BLOGS

• (Combination of Web and Log) Blogs provide
  commentary or news on a particular subject such
  as food, politics, local news, technology tools
  some function as more personal online diaries.

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Codec

• Short for coder-decoder, it is part of the
  videoconferencing system that encodes or decodes
  audio and video signals.

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Content Provider

• Deliverer of content in synchronous or
  asynchronous time. Examples are teachers,
  museum, zoos, etc.

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Desktop Video Conferencing

• Real-time interactive video and voice
  communication achieved with a webcam attached to
  a computer with Internet.

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Distance Education

• Learning that takes place over distance rather
  than in a fixed classroom. This includes email,
  internet, videoconferencing and audio
  conferencing. It cn be synchronous or asynchrous.

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Electronic Field Trip

• Virtual or simulated field trip that takes place
  in real-time electronically.

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Far Sites

• Also called Remote Sites, these are sites we
  communicate with over distance.

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H.323

• An umbrella recommendation from the ITU
  Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T)
  that defines the protocols to provide
  audio-visual communication sessions on any packet
  network.

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IP

• The Internet Protocol (IP) is data-oriented
  protocol used for cummunicating data across a
  packet-switched internetwork.

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ISDN

• Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) is a
  circuit-switched telephone netowrk system,
  designed to allow digital transmission of voice,
  video, and text transmission between individual
  desktop videoconferencing systems and group
  (room) videoconferencing systems.

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IVC

• Interactive Videoconferencing. Two-way video and
  audio communication supported by a computer
  network or digital phone line that facililtates
  interaction between people in a point to point or
  multipoint location.

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Local Sites

• The site from where you view the conference of a
  distance learning program.

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MCU

• Short for multipoint control unit. Also called
  the bridge that is a computerized, automated
  switching system that allows multiple sites to
  connect over videoconferencing.

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Multi-Point Video Conference

• Videoconferencing between more than two sites.

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Peripheral

• An external device such as a printer, scanner,
  whiteboard, or document camera.

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PIP

• Picture in a picture. Shows an inset of the
  local site (or remote site) simultaneously during
  a videoconference.

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Point to Point

• One site to one site videoconference. Does not
  require a bridge unless the sites are connecting
  in different ways (such as IP to ISDN).

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Synchronous Communication

• Two-way interaction between teacher and student
  in real time.

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Streaming Video

• Multimedia that is continuously received by, and
  normally displayed to, the end-user while it is
  being delivered by the provider.

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Telecommunications

• The transmission of signals over a distance for
  the purpose of communication.

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Test Call

• Should be carried out between the content
  provider and teacher to ensure a more reliable vc
  experience.

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VOIP

• Voice over Internet Protocol, also called VoIP,
  IP Telephony, Internet telephony, Broadband
  telephony, Broadband Phone and Voice over
  Broadband is the routing of voice conversations
  over the Internet or through any other IP-based
  network.

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Virtual Classroom

• An electronic classroom consisting of off-site
  members in one or several locations where
  instruction involves the use of synchronous and
  asynchronous tools.

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Web 2.0

• A phrase coined by OReilly Media in 2003 and
  popularized by the first Web 2.0 conference in
  2004, refers to a perceived second generation of
  web-based communities and hosted servicessuch as
  social networking sites, wikis and blogswhich
  facilitate collaboration and sharing between
  users. Web 2.0 tools not only allow student to
  create and engage with each other-but that other
  connections and collaborations would make a good
  project even better.

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Wikis

• A web application designed to allow multiple
  authors to add, remove, and edit content. The
  multiple author capability of wikis them
  effective tools for mass collaborative authoring.

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Del.icio.us

• Del.icio.us is one of many social bookmarking
  programs. Del.icio.us gives you a web-based
  bookmarking area that is accessible from any
  computer anywhere anytime.

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ooVoo

• Free desktop videoconferencing application.

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PBWIKI

• Peanut Butter Wiki. A protected wiki environment
  for teachers and students that promotes
  collaboration.

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eBoard

• Web based bulletin board for posting of any and
  all information related to a project, class, etc.
  

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VoiceThread

• A Voicethread allows every child in a class to
  record audio commentary about ideas and
  experiences that are important to them.  Students
  can narrate stories that they created or from
  snapshots or any other picture source.
• Voicethreads are FREE for educators..