Feel free to add definitions for terms as they come up—odds are somebody else will find them helpful

• blog: "A blog gives you your own voice on the web. It's a place to collect and share things that you find interesting— whether it's your political commentary, a personal diary, or links to web sites you want to remember." More here: http://www.blogger.com/start

• browser: a software program (such as Internet Explorer, Safari, or Mozilla Firefox) that enables you, "the client," to view web pages

• CBI: Computer Based Instruction; also known as CBT or Computer Based Training

• CSS: Cascading Style Sheets; style templates ("sheets") that allow designers and users to define how elements (paragraphs, headings, hyperlinks, etc.) should appear on a web page

• Essential Processing: cognitive processes that are required for making sense of the presented material (Mayer & Moreno 45)

• gif: Graphics Interchange Format; a graphics format supported by all browsers; gif is a compression scheme that makes pictures easier to transport over the Internet by reducing the file size of the image; gifs consist of a maximum of 256 colors; more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gif

• hypertext information spaces: concerned with information--what information the site offers and what it means to our users (Garrett 31)

• Incidental Processing: refers to cognitive processes that are not required for making sense of the presented material but are primed by the design fo the learning task (Mayer & Moreno 45)

• information architecture: the arrangement of content elements within the information space (Garrett 32)

• Integrated Presentation: placing the text within the graphic, next to the elements it is describing (Mayer & Moreno 49)

• interface design: arranging interface elements to enable users to interact with the functionality of the system (Garrett 34)

• javascript: a scripting language that allows the creation of dynamic content on Web pages

• jpeg (or jpg): Joint Photographic Expert Group; another file format used for images, typically photographs; jpegs can display millions of colors, which make them excellent formats in which to save photographs; jpeg compression is "lossy," however, which means that data is lost in order to reduce file size when saving

• KM: Knowledge Management System

• Representational holding: refers to the cognitive processes aimed at holding a mental representation in working memory over a period of time (Mayer & Moreno 45)

• RSS: Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication; an XML format for sharing content among different Web sites such as news items. How does it work? A Web site can allow other sites to publish some of its content by creating an RSS document and registers the document with an RSS publisher. A web publisher can post a link to the rss feed so users can read the distributed content on his/her site. Syndicated content can can include news feeds, listings of events, stories, headlines, etc.; more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_%28file_format%29

• Segmentation Efffect: students understand a multimedia explanation better when it is presented in learner controlled segments rather than as a continuous presentation (Mayer & Moreno 47)

• skeleton: the placement of buttons, tabs, photos, and blocks of text (Garrett 22)

• software interface: mainly concerned with tasks-the steps involved in a process and how people think about completing them (Garrett 31)

• TBP: Technical Business Practices; prescribe and guide operations

• URL: Uniform Resource Locator; the unique address which identifies a resource on the Internet for routing purposes, such as http://www.filmarchive.org.

• vlog: Video Blog