Celebrating Cultures

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - created in October 1994 by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee  -  is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.

W3C's primary activity is to developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web. W3C's standards define key parts of what makes the World Wide Web work.

The most important work done by the W3C is the development of a variety of Web specifications (called "Recommendations") that describe various protocols (like HTML, XML, CSS) and other building blocks of the Web.

Vendor-neutral standards and architectures, accessibility, usability, platform and browser independence aim at maximizing user interaction and information flow.
To facilitate this W3C offers various browsers, authoring tools and validators.

The WAG Method

• The Wild-Ass-Guess (WAG) is used for an activity that has no precedent. It  draws on simple rules-of-thumb instead of breaking down specific facets of a  project to build a more realistic estimate. If scientists want to build a ship  that will take people to Mars and back, they can work on calculating the  variables and foresee potential hiccups but in the end, because there is no  precedent to draw from, a large part of the estimating becomes a wild guess  entirely reliant on rules-of-thumb instead of smart  estimates.

Read more:  http://www.ehow.com/info_8054349_estimating-methods.html#ixzz2g6nyZAyo

the amount of time a teacher waits after asking for student response before moving on to the next topic or providing the answer

Western Association of Schools and Colleges--

Work-based learning refers to any formal higher education learning that is based wholly or predominantly in a work setting.

WBT is a short for Web-based training, a generic term for training and/or instruction delivered over the Internet or an intranet using a Web browser. Web-based training includes

• static methods:  such as streaming audio and video, hyperlinked Web pages, live Web broadcasts, and portals of information
• and interactive methods:  such as bulletin boards, chat rooms, instant messaging, videoconferencing and discussion threads.

The early concept of the World Wide Web, basically concentrating on presenting rather than creating the content. No user-generated content was available in its early days.

This term describes internet sites that use technology that allows users to create content, interact and collaborate with each other .

Examples of this are blogs, video, photos or document sharing sites, wikis and social sites.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

The weekly introductions on this "learnmoodle" course are good examples of a webinar.  The term webinar comes from a combination of web and seminar. As in a seminar there is a degree of interaction in a webinar, even if there are teachers/presenters taking a leading position.

Features of a webinar are...

• that all participants are online,
• there are one or more speakers presenting information
• the"audience" can send in feedback or questions in some form and the presenters therefore interact with the audience

Often a webinar is recorded so that those who couldn't take part "live" can still see the webinar.  See also "Adobe Connect".

The workweek and weekend are those complementary parts of the week devoted to labour and rest, respectively. The legal working week (British English), or workweek (U.S. English), is the part of the seven-day week devoted to labour. In most Western countries it is Monday to Friday; the weekend is a time period including Saturday and Sunday. Some people extend the weekend to Friday nights as well. In some Christian traditions, Sunday is the "Lord's Day" and the day of rest and worship. In other Christian traditions, they recognize the solar calendar and their day of rest is from noon on Saturday to noon on Sunday^{[citation needed]}. Jewish Shabbat or Biblical Sabbath lasts from sunset on Friday to the fall of full darkness on Saturday, leading to a Friday-Saturday weekend in Israel. Muslim-majority countries usually have a Thursday-Friday or Friday-Saturday weekend. The French Revolutionary Calendar had ten-day weeks (called décades) and allowed décadi, one out of the ten days, as a leisure day.