Word of the Week

Software, made available directly to individuals, that enables a remote user to monitor the activities on another user’s device without that user’s consent for surveillance purposes.   [The Digital Classroom Resource].  

A person with the ability to influence potential buyers of a product or service by promoting or recommending the items on social media. [The Digital Classroom Resource].  

“Zipping” one or more files creates a compressed archive that takes up less disk space than the uncompressed version. It is useful for backing up files and reducing the size of data transferred over the […]

A series of recorded keystrokes or instructions converted into a script that an application can run at the request of the user. It can also be a mini program written within the application to interact […]

How much data being uploaded and downloaded across a network and by how many users at a given time. Traffic affects the data speed on a network. The more traffic, the slower a network may […]

Photobombing is the act of purposely putting oneself into the view of a photograph, often in order to play a practical joke on the photographer or the subjects.   [The Digital Classroom Resource].  

Zoombombing refers to the unwanted, disruptive intrusion, generally by Internet trolls, into a video-conference call. [The Digital Classroom Resource].  

Emoji are ideograms and smileys used in electronic messages and web pages. Emoji exist in various genres, including facial expressions, common objects, places and types of weather, and animals.   [The Digital Classroom Resource].