GLOSSARY ALICACIONES DE LAS TIC

3DIssue

It is professional proprietary software used by most powerful companies in the world to create Flash & HTML5 magazines and e- books . In the same way as e-page creator, it is able to adapt its final product to be read by tablets, smartphone and other mobile devices among others. UNIT 5 an abstract is a brief summary of a research article, thesis, review, conference proceeding or any in-depth analysis of a particular subject or discipline, and is often used to help the reader quickly ascertain the paper's purpose.When used, an abstract always appears at the beginning of a manuscript or typescript, acting as the point-of-entry for any given academic paper or patent application. It is rather similar Research Gate, with more than 1.5 million of researchers subscribed. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research. Once subscribed, you will receive an alert every time someone searched your name on your publications in Google. UNIT 3 Computers vary by processor speed, screen size, etc. Users vary in language, gender, age, culture, preferences and interests. Other unexpected differences that also need to be addressed by the community are skills, ability levels, etc. Designing for diversity increases the number of people able to access a website and increases their level of involvement with it. The benefits of universal design in websites extend beyond the elderly or disabled populations. It addresses internationalisation, very important in today marketplace, providing for interoperability with many applications, accessibility to the disabled, and providing customisation and localisation features for people from different countries and cultures. UNIT 5 It is a solution offered by Adobe suite very similar to the already mentioned QuarkXpress but it has been though to produce material for electronic devices. Wikipedia offers a very complete article on the evolution of this program. UNIT 5 (Asociacin Espaola de Lingstica Aplicada): also called feed reader, news reader, RSS reader or simply aggregator, is client application which aggregates syndicated web content such as news headlines, blogs, podcasts, and video blogs (vlogs) in one location for easy viewing. (Source: Wikipedia) Examples: Google Reader, RSS Owl, etc.
History and Life (NU) This database has been acquired by EBSCO and

ABSTRACT

Academia.edu

ACCESSIBILITY

Adobe InDesign

AESLA AGGREGATOR (RSS)

AMERICA

provides access to the following list of journals dealing with the history of the United States of America from 1955 to the present. UNIT 1
ANOVA

(Analysis of Variance) A statistical analysis tool that separates the total variability found within a data set into two components: random and systematic factors. The random factors do not have any statistical influence on the given data set, while the systematic factors do. The ANOVA test is used to determine the impact independent variables have on the dependent variable in a regression analysis (Source: Investopedia). UNIT 4

APA

The American Psychological Association is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States. APA is the world's largest association of psychologists, with more than 134,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students as its members. (Source here). UNIT 5 APA Style originated in 1929, when a group of psychologists, anthropologists, and business managers convened and sought to establish a simple set of procedures, or style rules, that would codify the many components of scientific writing to increase the ease of reading comprehension. As with other editorial styles, APA Style consists of rules or guidelines that a publisher observes to ensure clear and consistent presentation of written material. (Source here). UNIT 5 It was first developed by researchers from the University of Berlin an interdisciplinary collaborative project between psychologists, computer scientists, linguists and future users during the years 1989-92. The menu is mainly divided into four sections: Documents, Quotations, Codes and Memos. UNIT 4 It is an open source application that allows recording also sound from the computer (i.e. IM, video, radio, etc.). It is one of the most extended tools. It works with many different extensions, wav and mp3 included. UNIT 4 It is a database of bibliographic records, an organised digital collection of references to published literature, including journal and newspaper articles, conference proceedings, reports, government and legal publications, patents, books, etc. In contrast to library catalogue entries, a large proportion of the bibliographic records in bibliographic databases describe analytics (articles, conference papers, etc.) rather than complete monographs, and they generally contain very rich subject descriptions in the form of keywords, subject classification terms, or abstracts (Source: Wikipedia). UNIT 1

APA STYLE

Atlas.ti

AUDACITY

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE

BIBLIOGRAPHIC MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS (BMA)

these are tools that allow creating, managing, organising and displaying journal articles or books references easily obtained from a database, journal, web site, etc. apart from generate bibliographic lists attending to different standards. Examples: Procite, EndNote, Reference Manager. UNIT 2 thousands of databases accessed through the same portal; contents cover innumerable disciplines, from general to very specialized; libraries acquire rights of access for a limited period of time; may contain embedded databases or reach agreements with smaller ones. UNIT 1 It is an IMS company that bought recently two of the most widely used webinar tools, elluminate and Wimba (initially IM for e-learning environments). The result is the combination of interface and technology of both of them. It includes options of moderation, groups creation, recording, etc. via It could be integrated within multiple platforms, even mobile ones and LMS as well. UNIT 3

BIBLIOGRAPHIC PLATFORM

BLACKBOARD COLLABORATE

BMA CLASSICS

Some authors apply this term to some of the pioneer companies in this field. These are: EndNote (perhaps the most widespread one), ProCite, and Reference Manager. Most of them need to be installed in a computer to be used. UNIT 2 is a CoP based on Video Chat to practice foreign languages. Its name comes from a Cameroon Language spoken by just 80 people. In the same way as Livemoche, it is a company as well, similar to a language academy which sells its services to other companies and universities. UNIT 3 Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis. It's the use of computer to aid qualitative research such as transcription analysis, coding and text interpretation, recursive abstraction, content analysis, discourse analysis, grounded theory methodology, etc. (Sources here and here). UNIT 4 It is very similar to Mendeley's idea, sharing references is one of its strong points. One of the possible disadvantages is that it is full of advertising, though all of it to academic matters. UNIT 2

BUSUU

CAQDAS

Cite U Like

CMC

(Computer Mediated Communication) any communication that occurs through the use of two or more electronic devices. While the term has traditionally referred to those communications that occur via computer-mediated formats (e.g., instant messaging, email, chat rooms), it has also been applied to other forms of text-based interaction such as text messaging. It can be divided into synchronous and asynchronous modes. In synchronous communications all participants are online at the same time (e.g. IRC), while asynchronous communications occurs with time constraints. (e.g. email). People choose asynchronous communication like email for delayed, controlled and longer messages. CMC is widely discussed in language learning because it provides opportunities for language learners to practice their language. (Source here). UNIT 3
CMapTools

It is another good example of free software. It allows connections between published concept maps but requires Cmap Server. UNIT 4 1: a state of agreement : harmony b: a simultaneous occurrence of two or more musical tones that produces an impression of agreeableness or resolution on a listener or compare discord. 2: agreement by stipulation, compact, or covenant 3: grammatical agreement. UNIT 4

CONCORD

CONNECT

In Twitter, the Connect tab lets you view interactions, mentions, recent follows and retweets. Using the Connect tab you are able to view who has favourited or retweeted your tweets, who has recently followed you, and all of your @replies and @mentions. UNIT 3 It is a completely free and web-based tool with no storage limits to share with other colleagues your articles and other sort of references works. You can import and export references, create groups, work with RSS, and tags, etc. The application runs in different browsers. UNIT 2

CONNOTEA

CoP: Community of Practice

Groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly. They have become virtual in the last two decades. UNIT 3 The Consortium of Universities of the Region of Madrid and the UNED for Library Cooperation (Madroo) was created by the Protocol signed in Madrid on 9 June 1999 by the Vice-Chancellors of seven universities. The main aim of the Consortium is to improve the quality of library services by promoting inter-library cooperation in order to achieve the following: Increased scientific productivity as a result of improved access to libraries for the Consortium universities through bibliographic information and interlibrary loans. Improvement of current library services, reducing cataloguing costs by sharing resources. Plans for cooperation, joint library services, shared purchases of resources and connection to national and international networks. Collaboration in any other initiatives arising out of inter-library cooperation and collective catalogues, especially within the Region of Madrid. The members of the Madroo Consortium are committed to the open access movement. All the Madroo Consortium universities have signed the Berlin Declaration. The materials are mostly in Spanish but you may find sources in English, too. UNIT 1 (pl. corpora) ( Source Merrian Webster's dictionary): 1: the body of a human or animal especially when dead 2: the main part or body of a bodily structure or organ <the corpus of the uterus> b: the main body or corporeal substance of a thing; specifically: the principal of a fund or estate as distinct from income or interest 3: all the writings or works of a particular kind or on a particular subject; especially : the complete works of an author : a collection or body of knowledge or evidence; especially: a collection of recorded utterances used as a basis for the descriptive analysis of a language. Examples of corpus:a computerised corpus of English. Jane Austen's corpus is modest in number but magnificent in achievement. UNIT 4

Consorcio Madroo

CORPUS

CUED Distancia

Apart from a simple discussion list, CUED has presence in many social networks. This page shows as well other publication related (RIED), news about e-learning, etc. UNIT 3 A space to debate about distance learning education and many other topics more. It is more traditional than the previous one, since it is more focused on official education from the universities. UNIT 3 A database is an application that manages data and allows fast and retrieval of that data. UNIT 2 A data set (or dataset) is a collection of data, usually presented in tabular form. Each column represents a particular variable. Each row corresponds to a given member of the data set in question. It lists values for each of the variables, such as height and weight of an object (Source: Wikipedia). UNIT 4
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CUEDL

DATABASE

DATASET

DELICIOUS STACKS

If you already have a Delicious account, you could create a stack just by adding your selected tags to a front cover. Depending on the metainformation coming from each imported link, you could obtain a nicer or more complex appearance. Each link will show the number of savings it has, notes that you may have in your delicious account, comments or if have marked it as favorite. Apart from that, you can also invite other contributors to add more links. UNIT 5 Spanish database developed by the University of La Rioja. It already has reached more than 1,000,000 users being one of the main references for most of the researchers and professors working at the Spanish universities. The access to some full text versions of the entries depends on the journals subscribed by your institution, having the possibility to borrow a document from other institution if is required. There is a service with a list of journals included in Dialnet with full text links (only of you are logging in with a institution subscribed to the journal / article that you are searching. This service is known as Dialnet Plus. Most of the publications linked here are based in Spain, which means that most of them will be written in Spanish except for some edited by associations directly related to English Studies.
UNIT 1

Dialnet (UNED)

DIGITAL REPLAY

This open source software has been created by the University of Nottingham to deal with qualitative multimodal research projects. It permits to synchronize different audio and video data to code and categorize information. UNIT 4 it is a number that acts as a permanent identifier for electronic resources (articles, books, abstracts, images...) It allows the users to track the resource in a database or even in the net in an easy and fast way, and it is more reliable than the URL of the site in which the document is stored, because the DOI can be tracked even if the source changes from one server to another. The DOI is also very useful for scientific publications, because an article can be quoted using this number, even if it hasn't been included in a publication yet (and therefore lacks the data necessary for proper quoting). UNIT 1 An e-book is an electronic version of a traditional print book that can be read by using a personal computer or by using an eBook reader. UNIT 1 Most complete BM developed by Thomson Reuters.It is possible to create groups to share references, images, it also has a web-based version with 10,000 references. UNIT 2 It is a tool to create unlimited digital publications from PDF, SWF and image files. You may have different options depending on the price you have paid. The magazine shown below has the following features: Share, Print, Save as PDF, Background Color, Save as PDF and Thumbnail View. UNIT 5 It was and is still being considered as one of the basic communities to belong if you want to be updated about key e-learning topics in the Hispanic World. Shared by companies and universities system administrators and teachers of different areas. High level of innovation. 3,500 books accessible from ScienceDirect platform. Focussed on science and health publications. UNIT 1
5

DOI (Digital

Object Identifier )

E-book

End Note

E-page Creator

ELEARNING

ELSEVIER

ERIC (Education

Resources Information Center) It's the most important a comprehensive database about education. Its the

most important database about Education. It can be reached freely as an independent researcher using your own user account although many institutions like UNED access through EBSCO interface. UNIT 1
EBSCO

EBSCO Information Services provides a complete and optimised research

solution comprised of research databases, e-books and e-journal so all combined with the most powerful discovery service and management resources to support the information and collection development needs of libraries and other institutions and to maximise the search experience for researchers and other end users. EBSCO is the leading service provider of ejournal, e-package and print subscriptions, e-resource management tools, fulltext and secondary databases (via EBSCO Publishing), and related services for all types of libraries and research organisations. EBSCO maintains a title database of more than 300,000 listings and upholds relationships with more than 79,000 publishers around the world. UNIT 1
The European Library

It permits to do searches in 48 National Libraries in Europe in 35 different languages freely. This includes all of the bibliographic records of Europe (the Union Catalog, University of Oxford's Bodleian Library), plus over 24 million pages of full-text content and 10 million digital objects. If search for "Canterbury Tales", more than 3,000 Items will be found, including videos, illustrations scanned from manuscripts, books, articles, etc. A map with the locations with all the findings will be added too, apart from links to Mendeleys profiles. UNIT 1 It contains digital facsimile page images of most of the works printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and as well as works in English from 1473-1700. It has access to Full text documents. UNIT
1

Early English books online (NU)

FEEDLY

is a news aggregator application. It compiles news feeds from a variety of online sources. The user can also customise the content aggregated by Feedly to include their own preference of RSS feeds. Any article can be shared using e-mail, Facebook, Google+, Tumblr, Twitter, and a variety of other services. The Feedly mobile application is available for iOS, and Android devices. (Source: Wikipedia). UNIT 2 It is an open source tool that allows you to create mind maps. It is very similar to the previous one with less functionalities. However, it permits to export to many extensions (HTML, pdf, word, rft, etc. ). It is written in Java but it has no possibility to synchronize with tablets. It can only be installed in PCs. UNIT 4 (related with corpora): (Source: Merrian Webster's dictionary): 1. the fact or condition of occurring frequently 2. the number of times that a periodic function repeats the same sequence of values during a unit variation of the independent variable : the number, proportion, or percentage of items in a particular category in a set of data 3: the number of repetitions of a periodic process in a unit of time: asa : the number of complete alternations per second of an alternating current : the number of complete oscillations per second of energy (as sound or electromagnetic radiation) in the form of waves. UNIT 4
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FREEMIND

FREQUENCY

GOOGLE BOOK

A very similar engine to Google Scholar one is Google Books. Thanks to it, you can have open access to some pages of the book, locate different bookshops to buy it even save them in your virtual book-shelf. UNIT 1 It is the new version of the previous Google Docs. It is thanks to this one, that you could synchronise documents contained in your computer. Among other utilities (word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, etc.), it includes the option to create a form with the possibility to retrieve the results in a single spreadsheet. UNIT 4 Google Scholar is a specialised search engine that may complement the use of Rebiun. Once you visualise the results of a search on the screen, you could get a link to Rebiun or the catalogue of any University if you have previously configured the application to do that. UNIT 1 It is a very well-known project that has been compiling classic books in English (now there are versions in other French, Portuguese and Dutch language ) to spread literature and the love for literature in general through Internet. There is a mobile version as well. UNIT 1 A hyperlink (or simply link) is a reference to data that the reader can directly follow, or that is followed automatically. A hyperlink points to a whole document or to a specific element within a document. A user following hyperlinks is said to navigate or browse the hypertext. A hyperlink has an anchor, which is the location within a certain type of a document from which the hyperlink can be followed only from the homepage; the document containing a hyperlink is known as its source code document. For example, in an online reference work such as Wikipedia, many words and terms in the text are hyperlinked to definitions of those terms. Hyperlinks are often used to implement reference mechanisms, such as tables of contents, footnotes, bibliographies, indexes, letters, and glossaries. In some hypertext, hyperlinks can be bidirectional: they can be followed in two directions, so both ends act as anchors and as targets. More complex arrangements exist, such as many-to-many links (Source: Wikipedia). It is a text with hyperlinks (Source: Wikipedia). It is a form of communication over the Internet, which offers an instantaneous transmission of text-based messages from sender to receiver. Most of them offer the possibility to permit communication with voice by means of Voice over IP is the transport of voice using the Internet Protocol (IP), however this broad term hides a multitude of deployments and functionality and it is useful to look in more detail at what VoIP is being used for today. UNIT 3 In statistics, an interaction may arise when considering the relationship among three or more variables, and describes a situation in which the simultaneous influence of two variables on a third is not additive (Source: Wikipedia). UNIT 4 Apart from serving as a database, It provide contents of more than 200 Language and Literature studies, 40 in Applied Linguistics, more than 300 in History and many disciplines more dealing with English Studies. UNIT 1

GOOGLE DRIVE

GOOGLE SCHOLAR

GUTENBERG PROJECT

HYPERLINK

HYPERTEXT

Instant Messaging (IM)

INTERACTION

J-STOR

KEYWORD

(related to corpora) is a word whose frequency is unusually high in comparison with some norm. UNIT 4 it is a psychometric scale commonly involved in research that employs questionnaires. It is the most widely used approach to scaling responses in survey research, such that the term is often used interchangeably with scale. It is named after its inventor, psychologist Rensis Likert. Likert scaling is a bipolar scaling method, measuring either positive or negative responses to a statement. The format of a typical five-level Likert item could be: 1-Strongly disagree; 2-disagree; 3-Neither agree nor disagree; 4-Agree; 5-Strongly agree. (Source here). UNIT 4 Apart from all these databases, UNED has recently launched a meta-searcher called LINCEO. As shown In the Image below, once you begin to type your search on the screen, several suggestions related to your enquiry will appear. With this engine, you can search and access to e-resources (e-books, ejournals and Open Access journals, databases, etc). Some of them even have the direct link to the full text without having to change the interface. UNIT 1 Over 72,000 linguistic abstracts from over 600 journals. The full access is available as well through cross-ref. Your institution needs to be subscribed to this service in order to do searches on it. UNIT 1 It has a recollection of full-text works in English dating from the AngloSaxon period to the current time. Since its launch in 1996, Literature Online has become valued throughout the world for the new possibilities it brings to both research and teaching. This is partly because of its unique content Literature Online contains resources for over 17,500 authors, more than 350,000 literary works, and the full text of over 315 specialist literature journals but also because of scholarly editorial values that are the product of a high level of editorial input from the academic community and from specialist researchers. From October 24th it is accessible from the UNED. Thanks to a database like this, you can access to digitalised images of ancient texts from your own institution with the possibility to zoom images, print some pages, take your own time to read any work in detail, etc. UNIT 1 was created in 2007, committed to creating a world in which every human being is fluent in multiple languages. With more than 14 million members from 195 countries, it is a community that grows every year with teachers and students that leach and learn languages in a collaborative way. UNIT 3 Tools to create ebooks are similar or even the same to create e-magazines. There are some platforms like Lulu, which even help you to send the book edited by your own. Other tools simply convert a pdf file into an e-book format such as Calibre, that calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books.
UNIT 5

LIKERT SCALE

LINCEO

Linguistics Abstracts Online1 (NU)

Literature Online

(UNED)

LIVEMOCHA

LULU

Luminarium

It is one of the pioneer "libraries" on the Internet. It enables you to read and work with British texts from the Middle Ages to the Restoration period. It is based on a very detailed set recollection of links for each author. UNIT 1

MATLAB

is a high-level language and interactive environment for numerical computation, visualisation, and programming. Using MATLAB, you can analyse data, develop algorithms, and create models and applications. The language, tools, and built-in math functions enable you to explore multiple approaches and reach a solution faster than with spreadsheets or traditional programming languages, such as C/C++. You can use MATLAB for a range of applications, including signal processing and communications, image and video processing, control systems, test and measurement, computational finance, and computational biology. More than a million engineers and scientists in industry and academia use MATLAB, the language of technical computing. (Source here). UNIT 4 it describes an approach that is assisted or enhanced through the use of a handheld mobile device. MALL is a subset of both Mobile Learning (mlearning) and Computer-assisted language learning (CALL). MALL has evolved to support students with the increased use of mobile technologies such as mobile phone (cellphones), MP3 and MP4 players, PDAs and devices such as the iPhone or iPad. With MALL, students are able to access materials and to communicate with their teachers and peers at any time, anywhere. (Source here). UNIT 3 In the case of a discrete probability distribution of a random variable X, the mean is equal to the sum over every possible value weighted by the probability of that value; that is, it is computed by taking the product of each possible value x of X and its probability P(x), and then adding all these products together, giving mu = sum x P(x) mu = sum x P(x) (Source: Wikipedia). 'Free reference manager and social network that helps you organise your research, collaborate with others online and discover new research' (Source: Mendeley introductory video). In the same way as Zotero, it permits to create groups to share reference citations. There are even already created groups, shown in Mendeley's website that you could ask to be accepted as member to go on sharing bibliography on specialised topics. Also see Mendeley Desktop (here). UNIT 2 Mentioning another user in your tweet by including the @ sign followed directly by their username is called a 'mention'. It also refers to tweets in which your username was included. UNIT 3 is a broadcast medium that exists in the form of blogging. A microblog differs from a traditional blog in that its content is typically smaller in both actual and aggregated file size. Microblogs "allow users to exchange small elements of content such as short sentences, individual images, or video links". These small messages are sometimes called microposts. As with traditional blogging, microbloggers post about topics ranging from the simple, such as 'what I'm doing right now,' to the thematic, such as 'sports cars.' Commercial microblogs also exist to promote websites, services and products, and to promote collaboration within an organization. Among the most notable services are Twitter, Tumblr, FriendFeed, Cif2.net, Plurk, Jaiku and identi.ca. (Source here). UNIT 3

MALL

(Mobile Assisted)

MEAN

MENDELEY

MENTION

Microblogging

MIND MANAGER

was the first tool designed by Mindjet to create concept and mind maps, -depending of the mode that you select from the beginning. UNIT 4
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The mixer

It is a community that uses a VoIP client to practice languages (English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, etc. They need presence in Facebook (more than 3000 users) and Twitter. You need to specify a group to practice when joining for the first time. UNIT 3 It works with spreadsheets or traditional programming languages such as C, C++, or Visual Basic. These products combine a powerful numeric engine and programming environment with interactive tools for statistical analysis, image processing, signal processing, and other domains. Among other features, you could: Access data from files, spreadsheets, databases, test equipment, data, acquisition hardware, other software, or the Web Explore your data to identify trends, test hypotheses, and estimate uncertainty Create customized algorithms, visualizations, and models and publish customized reports Share your analysis tools as MATLAB code or as standalone desktop or Web applications. UNIT 4 Bibliography International is the most important database dealing with language Studies. It includes Linguistics, Literature, Culture and Cinema.
UNIT 1

MATLAB

MLA (Modern Languages

Association)

MODE

The value that appears most often in a set of data (Source: Wikipedia). The mode is the value that occurs most often. (Source here). UNIT 4 Massive Open Online Course. Online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the Web. In addition to traditional course materials such as videos, readings and problem sets, MOOCs provide interactive user forums that help build a community for the students, professors, and teaching assistants (TAs). MOOCs are a recent development in distance education. (Source here). UNIT 4 Kind of libraries open to the whole world of internet under the form of a wiki, to share or upload. UNIT 1 it is a content curation service. It enables people to publish newspapers based on topics they like and treat their readers to fresh news, daily. People are the ones that are qualified to curate the content that matters most. They help each other in their communities to find their way through the 'massive content world.' Software that helps a user organise passwords and PIN codes. The typically has a local database or a file that holds the encrypted password data for secure logon onto computers, networks,and application data files. Many password managers also work as a form filler, thus they fill the user and password data automatically into forms. These are implemented using a browser extension, smart card application or USB stick application that communicates to the browser or other application (Source: Wikipedia). UNIT 2

MOOC

Open access libraries

Paper.li

Password manager

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POWER

The power of a statistical test is the probability that the test will reject the hypothesis when the hypothesis is false. The power is in general a function of the possible distributions, often determined by a parameter, under the alternative hypothesis. Power analysis can be used to calculate the minimum sample size required so that one can be reasonably likely to detect an effect of a given size. Power analysis can also be used to calculate the minimum effect size that is likely to be detected in a study using a given sample size. In addition, the concept of power is used to make comparisons between different statistical testing procedures: for example, between a parametric and a nonparametric test of the same hypothesis. (Source: Wikipedia) UNIT 4 It works similar to EndNote. The first BMA created by Thomson Reuters. UNIT 2
PSPP the closer in appearance and functionalities to SPSS. It is being used by market researchers psychologists and sociologists. SPSS has a data view tab

ProCite

PSPP

(spreadsheet), a variable view tab (to create variables and define their characteristics) and has an easy to use point-and-click interface. Although primarily a point-and-click software, SPSS also has a command syntax language. UNIT 4
Public Knowledge Project (PKP)

It is an open source tool used by many Public Libraries, universities, ministries and other relevant institutions all around the world. Here you are some examples of online open journals using this tool to the management of their publication: International Journal of Applied Linguistics & Literature, Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal. UNIT 5 it is extremely varied in nature. It includes virtually any information that can be captured that is not numerical in nature. Some of the major categories or types are: in-depth interviews, direct observation and written documents. (Source here). UNIT 4 it refers to the numerical facts and figures that are collected during a research investigation or field of study. The data or observations are then analysed and used to interpret a situation or even. Data is measured on a numerical scale such as a histogram, chart, etc. (Source here). UNIT 4

Qualitative Data

Quantitative Data

Quantitative research This methodology involves collecting primarily numerical data and analyzing

statistical methods. UNIT 4

QUARK

It is one leading applications in the publishing industry to create any kind of books in its different formats (printed and online versions). Some of its features are the following: Books feature lets you manage chapters, users, and printing Mastering pages by reducing repetitive tasks by managing common elements Automatic page numbering lets you create automatic indexes and tables of contents Job Jackets provide continuity across documents, including styles, output options, page sizes, and more Advanced design tools provide limitless options for page layout Fine typography tools such as H&Js, hanging characters, and drop caps optimise text. UNIT 5

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RANGE

1. In the descriptive statistics, the range of a set of data is the difference between the largest and smallest values. It is the size of the smallest interval which contains all the data and provides an indication of statistical dispersion. It is measured in the same units as the data. Since it only depends on two of the observations, it is most useful in representing the dispersion of small data sets. (Source: Wikipedia). 2. The range is the difference between the highest and lowest values in a set of numbers. (Source: here). UNIT 4 (Red de Bibliotecas Universitarias) found in this link http://rebiun.crue.org. Google Scholar is a specialized search engine that may complement the use of Rebiun. Once you visualize the results of a search on the screen, you could get a link to Rebiun or the catalogue of any University if you have previously configured the application to do that. UNIT 1 an optional feature of RefWorks for capturing bibliographic information from web pages. It is available as a bookmarklet that works with RefGrab-It looks for information on web pages and if an ISBN number, PubMed ID or (digital object identifier) or COinS (ContextObjects in Spans -- special coding embedded in the web page that RefWorks will read) are on the web page, RefGrab-It will automatically take that information search various web resources (behind the scenes) to get supplemental information that may be of interest to you that you can also import. RefWorks may even locate RSS feeds related to that web page that you can invoke and import information from. (Source: here) UNIT 2 'An online research management, writing and collaboration tool -- is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies' (Source: RefWorks). Nowadays, it is one of the most widely used BMAs (Bibliographic Management Applications) by researchers and academics after Endnote. Its interface is much more intuitive and friendly that its precursors. It permits the direct exportation from many databases with several references at the same time, it allows to import citations from last issues rss coming from some of the most relevant electronic journals. It allows extracting information from any single reference with visible ISBN on the screen, along with many other functions. UNIT 2 RefShare provides RefWorks users with a quick and easy way to share their research information, further enhancing collaborative research. Users can share their RefWorks references with both members of their own institution and globally. UNIT 2 Spanish academic and research network that provides advanced communication services to the scientific community and national universities. It is funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and is included in the Ministry's map of Special Scientific and Technological Facilities (ICTS) (Source: RedIRIS). UNIT 1 refers to the extent to which a scale produces consistent results, if the measurements are repeated a number of times. The analysis on reliability is called reliability analysis. Reliability analysis is determined by obtaining the proportion of systematic variation in a scale, which can be done by determining the association between the scores obtained from different administrations of the scale. Thus, if the association in reliability analysis is high, the scale yields consistent results and is therefore reliable (Source: http://bit.ly/19wtopn). UNIT 4
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REBIUN

RefGrab-It

RefWorks

RefShare

RedIRIS

Reliability

REPLY

a tweet posted in reply to another user's message, usually posted by clicking the "reply" button next to their Tweet in your timeline. Always begins with @username. UNIT 3 (noun) a tweet by another user, forwarded to you by someone you follow. Often used to spread news or share valuable findings on Twitter; (verb, regular) the act of forwarding another user's tweet to all of your followers (Source: Twitter Glossary). It is open source platform to host collections of books and scientific ejournals that belong to Open Edition along with Calenda (to add and receive alerts about academic and scientific events in French) and Hypotheses (for academic blogs in Spanish French and German language). UNIT 5 Rich Site Summary (originally RDF Site Summary, often dubbed Really Simple Syndication) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video in a standardised format. An RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web feed", or "channel") includes full or summarised text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship. (Source: Wikipedia). UNIT 1 Created by Thompson Reuters, a famous electronic journal provider, it is a very complete tool although its use requires having previous knowledge on bibliographic management as shown by its plain interface. You can download the demo version by submitting a about a form with your professional and academic context. It also permits the possibility of working collaboratively.
UNIT 2

RETWEET

REVUE

RSS

REFERENCE MANAGER

RESEARCH GATE

It is an academic social network specialized in spreading scientific production of its members. You only need to select the topics of your interest and you will have the opportunity to read by means of your profile the articles concerned to the areas selected. Then, you could follow the work of any of its members. There could be found groups, research project, etc. application with mobile version included, considered as "the world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track analyze and visualize research". UNIT 1
[Discontinued] It comes included in the CS6 Suite by Adobe, among many

SCOPUS

SOUNDBOOTH

other applications such Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Captivate, etc. It also permits you to transcribe audio texts. UNIT 4
SPONTANIA

SPSS

Is is a tool created by Dialcom, a Spanish leader company in software developing for business and communication aims. It has been used in several occasions by television channels and political institutions as means of communication. It is being introduced in education context in the recent years. UNIT 3 It is the most common software to perform applied statistics, although it is presented by its IBM developers as a business product, their owners since 2010. It is integrated in a family of products that addresses the entire analytical process, from planning to data collection to analysis, reporting and deployment. UNIT 4

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STANDARD DEVIATION

In statistics standard deviation (represented by the symbol sigma, ) shows how much variation or "dispersion" exists from the average (mean, or expected value). A low standard deviation indicates that the data points tend to be very close to the mean; high standard deviation indicates that the data points are spread out over a large range of values. The standard deviation of a random variable, statistical population, or data set is the square root of its variance. A useful property of standard deviation is that, unlike variance, it is expressed in the same units as the data. In addition to expressing the variability of a population, standard deviation is commonly used to measure confidence in statistical conclusions. For example, the margin of error in polling data is determined by calculating the expected standard deviation in the results if the same poll were to be conducted multiple times. (Source: Wikipedia) UNIT 4 'Powerful multidisciplinary database that drives the libraries' article search.' By using the subject term check boxes, users can significantly narrow their results. Date range and content type tools are useful for researchers looking for very specific contents. Search platforms such as UNED's Linceo are based on this kind of software (Source: here). UNIT 1 You could find English Studies articles in Science Direct 3, one of the leading bibliographic platforms which has acquired recently others such as Elsevier (focused on science and health publications) 4 or Scopus5. Apart from having included more than 2,5 million books and 11,000 books, they have devoted a great effort to digitalise a great amount of articles written before 1995. Platforms like this are gradually integrating web 2.0 components to Its features. Among other functionalities you could obtain a list with the 25 most cited references in any of the subscribed journals. UNIT 1 in two modalities: free or paid by using either a Facebook account or by creating a new Scoop account. It works in a similar way than Twitter, by rescooping news that you may consider of interest for you and your subscriber or people that could read you, although you could write your own articles as well. They presume to be the largest and most connected curation publishing platform for professionals. Synchronous communication is described as the communication processes or channels where participants interact by communicating at the same time, in contrast to asynchronous communication or deferred communication (Messcherschmidt, 1999). UNIT 3 The t-test assesses whether the means of two groups are statistically different from each other. This analysis is appropriate whenever you want to compare the means of two groups. The formula for the t-test is a ratio. The top part of the ratio is just the difference between the two means or averages. The bottom part is a measure of the variability or dispersion of the scores. The top part of the formula is easy to compute -- just find the difference between the means. The bottom part is called the standard error of the difference. To compute it, we take the variance for each group and divide it by the number of people in that group (Source: here). UNIT 4 It is one of the most famous tools to transcribe. It identify analytically interesting clips, assign keywords to clips, arrange and rearrange clips, create complex collections of interrelated clips, explore relationships between applied keywords, and share your analysis with colleagues. The result is a
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SUMMON

Science Direct 3

Scoop.it

Synchronic CMC tools

T-test

TRANSANA

TRANSCRIBER

Twitter

new way to focus on your data, and a new way to manage large collections of video and audio files and clips. UNIT 4 [Similar to Transana and Express Scribe] Open source. It identifies analytically interesting clips, assign keywords to clips, arrange and rearrange clips, create complex collections of interrelated clips, explore relationships between applied keywords, and share your analysis with colleagues. The result is a new way to focus on your data, and a new way to manage large collections of video and audio files and clips. UNIT 4 An information network made up of 140-character messages from all over the world; (noun) a message posted via Twitter containing 140 characters of fewer; (regular verb) the act of posting a message, often called a 'tweet' on Twitter. UNIT 3 Thunderbird is an open source, cross-platform, news, and client developed by the Foundation. Thunderbird can manage multiple newsgroup, news feed accounts and supports multiple identities within accounts. Features such as quick search, saved search folders ("virtual folders"), advanced message filtering, message grouping, and help manage and find messages (Source: here). UNIT 2 Usability is a measure of the interactive user experience associated with a user interface, such a website or application. A user-friendly interface design is easy-to-learn, supports users tasks and goals efficiently and effectively, and is satisfying and engaging to use. From the user's perspective, usability is important because it can make the difference between performing a task accurately and completely or not, and enjoying the process or being frustrated. From the developer's perspective, usability is important because it can mean the difference between the success or failure of a system. From a management point of view, with poor usability can reduce the productivity of the workforce to a level of performance worse than without the system. In all cases, lack of usability can cost time and effort and can greatly determine the success or failure of a system. Given a choice, people tend to buy systems that are more user-friendly. Usability is one of the focuses of the fields of Human Factors Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction. As the name suggests, usability has to do with bridging the gap between people and machines (Source: here). UNIT 5 A variable is any characteristic, number, or quantity that can be measured or counted. A variable may also be called a data item. Examples: age, sex, business income and expenses, country of birth, etc. UNIT 4

THUNDERBIRD

USABILITY

VARIABLE

VARIANCE

Statistical variance gives a measure of how the data distributes itself about the mean or expected value. Unlike range that only looks at the extremes, the variance looks at all the data points and then determines their distribution. In many cases of statistics and experimentation, it is the variance that gives invaluable information about the data distribution. Here is how variance (s2) is defined: a) Subtract the mean from each value in the data. This gives you a measure of the distance of each value from the mean. b) Square each of these distances (so that they are all positive values), and add all of the squares together. c) Divide the sum of the squares by the number of values in the data set. The standard deviation (s) is simply the (positive) square root of the variance (Sources: here and here). UNIT 4
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WEBHEADS

one of the most active and perseverant CoP in the world of CALL. There members have learnt most of the things the know-how thanks to the knowledge generated from the community itself. It could be the perfect example of CoP. They have a leader with reputation that inspire confidence, all the topics dealt in the community are perfectly reliable, practice is evident.
UNIT 3

WEBINAR

a live online educational presentation during which participating viewers can submit questions and comments. is a form of syndication in which website material is made available to multiple other sites. Most commonly, web syndication refers to making web feeds available from a site in order to provide other people with a summary or update of the website's recently added content (for example, the latest news or forum posts). The term can also be used to describe other kinds of licensing website content so that other websites can use it. (Source: Wikipedia). UNIT 2 is a website which allows its users to add, modify, or delete its content via a web browser usually using a simplified markup language or a rich-text editor. Wikis are powered by wiki. Most are created collaboratively. Wikis serve many different purposes, such as knowledge management and note taking. Wikis can be community websites and intranets, for example. Some permit control over different functions (levels of access). For example, editing rights may permit changing, adding or removing material. Others may permit access without enforcing access control. Other rules may also be imposed for organising content (Source: Wikipedia). UNIT 3 'A RefWorks tool that makes it easy to manage citations and bibliographies in research papers you are writing in Word.' It is a program downloadable directly from the RefWorks application. PC or Mac friendly (Video tutorials here). UNIT 2 It is a very complete and widespread open source application adding a mobile version to its standard version as a Firefox extension. It is has a deep collaborative philosophy sharing even social networking elements. Once you click on the "Zotero" button a new window will be shown to work at the same time that you are browsing the web. UNIT 2

Web syndication

WIKI

Write-N-Cite

ZOTERO

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