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As Far As I Know :) | ||
TIA | ||
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This is an abbreviation for 'Thanks in advance' Often used in usenet but has become increasingly popular in e-mails, text messages, instant messages, chat rooms and forum posts. In fact, you could come across this abbreviation in any modern electronic communication. | ||
spam | ||
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Electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings. Some people define spam even more generally as any unsolicited e-mail. However, if a long-lost brother finds your e-mail address and sends you a message, this could hardly be called spam, even though it's unsolicited. Real spam is generally e-mail advertising for some product sent to a mailing list or newsgroup. In addition to wasting people's time with unwanted e-mail, spam also eats up a lot of network bandwidth. Consequently, there are many organizations, as well as individuals, who have taken it upon themselves to fight spam with a variety of techniques. But because the Internet is public, there is really little that can be done to prevent spam, just as it is impossible to prevent junk mail. However, some online services have instituted policies to prevent spammers from spamming their subscribers. There is some debate about the source of the term, but the generally accepted version is that it comes from the Monty Python song, "Spam spam spam spam, spam spam spam spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam" Like the song, spam is an endless repetition of worthless text. Another school of thought maintains that it comes from the computer group lab at the University of Southern California who gave it the name because it has many of the same characteristics as the lunchmeat Spam: Nobody wants it or ever asks for it. No one ever eats it; it is the first item to be pushed to the side when eating the entree. Sometimes it is actually tasty, like 1% of junk mail that is really useful to some people. source | ||
Breadcrumb | ||
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Breadcrumbs are what Hansel and Gretel used the famous fairy tale to remember the way back to where they came from. Moodle DOES NOT use breadcrumbs, as this is what your browser is for and why it has a back button/menu. Moodle has a navigation bar in the header (and optionally footer) that shows the location of the current page within the site structure. | ||
NZVLE Project | ||
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NZ Open Source VLE Project is a New Zealand-based project, hosted at Eduforge.org It is helping Moodle adoption as part of a greater project of developing OSS e-learning application software for deployment throughout New Zealands education sector. System integration of portal website framework, lcms, content creation tools and modular toolkit. | ||
PEAR | ||
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An acronym for PHP Extension and Application Repository. PEAR is a framework and distribution system for reusable PHP components. For more information see http://pear.php.net/. | ||
Shibboleth | ||
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Shibboleth is not only a kind of linguistic password that
identifies one as a member of an 'in' group, it's also the name of a middleware project of Internet2. The Shibboleth project is developing architectures, policy structures, practical technologies and an open source implementation (also called Shibboleth) to support inter-institutional sharing of (web) resources subject to access controls. Some key concepts of Shibboleth are:
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IE | ||
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Abbreviation for Internet Explorer which is Microsoft's web browser. Originally provided free to undermine Netscape's browser dominance in the 90's and currently provided bundled as standard with Microsoft's microcomputer operating systems. Many people are switching from IE to Mozilla's Firefox to avoid the perceived risk of spy-ware and other security risks. | ||
CSCL | ||
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Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. It has much to do with internet and social constructivism ;) | ||
Ajax | ||
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An abbreviation for "Asynchronous JavaScript and XML" - technologies for creating interactive web applications. | ||