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Digital Literacy
Digital Literacy terms and definitions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Netiquette | Courtesy, honesty, and polite behavior practiced on the Internet-key component of digital citizenship! |
| Flame | A deliberately mean-spirited message sent to others on the Internet. |
| RL | Real Life |
| VL | Virtual Life |
| Digital Footprint | A digital footprint is all of the information online about a person either posted by that person or others, intentionally or unintentionally. |
| Fair Use | Fair Use is the idea that copyright material maybe be quoted without the need for permission from or payment to the original source, provided that a citation is clearly given and that the material quoted is reasonably brief. |
| Plagiarism | Plagiarism is using someone else's words or ideas and passing them off as your own. |
| Cite | A reference which names the source of specific information which has been used. |
| Copyright | Copyright is the owner's legal right to reproduce, display, transmit, perform, and modify a work as well as the right to pubicly perform a sound recording by digital transmission. |
| Cyberbullying | Cyberbullying is the use of digital media tools such as the Internet and cell phones to deliberately and repeatedly hurt, harass, or embarrass someone else. |
| Privacy | Privacy is your right to determine what information you would like others to know about you. |
| Piracy | Piracy is theft of intellectual property - in other words, stealing what does not belong to you. |