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llaboration When you join a group of friends to build a huge sandcastle on the beach, your impressive structure is the result of collaboration, or working together toward a common goal. Working with another person — or a group of people — to make something together is collaboration. You can also describe the result of your work, like the elaborately decorated cake you made with your best friend, as a collaboration. During World War II, the word collaboration began being used to mean "working traitorously with an enemy," and became a very serious crime. DEFINITIONS OF: collaboration 1 n act of working jointly “they worked either in collaboration or independently” Synonyms: coaction Type of: cooperation joint operation or action n act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country Synonyms: collaborationism, quislingism Type of: cooperation joint operation or action Learn Add to List... Launch WORD FAMILY collaborationcollaborationscollaborationismcollaboratecollaboratedcollaboratingcollaborationcollaborativecollaboratorthe "collaborate" family USAGE EXAMPLES I saw women head to the dressing ro

Literacy can also mean having knowledge or ability in a more specific area.

If moral is used as an adjective, it means good, or ethical.

Malware refers to a program on your computer that is malicious in nature.  It is designed to take control, annoy, and destroy!

Millions of ludicrous emails are surfacing on the web, sent from students and job seekers to professionals, using made-up words like "i" and "come2u." It may not be the fault of schools, friends or even television, but because of the vastly popular

communication craze, text messaging.

A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links.

People maintained blogs long before the term was coined, but the trend gained momentum with the introduction of automated published systems, most notably Blogger at blogger.com.

A collaborative website whose content can be edited by anyone who has access to it.

a Web site that allows visitors to make changes, contributions, or corrections

On the Internet, privacy, a major concern of users, can be divided into these concerns: What personal information can be shared with whom Whether messages can be exchanged without anyone else seeing them Whether and how one can send messages anonymously

An annual survey conducted by the Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center of the Georgia Institute of Technology showed that 70% of the Web users surveyed cited concerns about privacy as the main reason for not registering information with Web sites.

According to Professor Solove, we should understand privacy is an umbrella term for a group of related yet distinct things. Privacy is about respecting the desires of individuals where compatible with the aims of the larger community.

A privacy risk includes any potential problems involving the collection, use, or disclosure of personal data by the school or by others within the school community.

General: Cooperative arrangement in which two or more parties (which may or may not have any previous relationship) work jointly towards a common goal.

A viral video is one that becomes popular through the process of Internet sharing…

A video is considered to have gone viral if it is on track to receive 10,000 or more views in the span of 30 days.

There are levels of viral: A video is considered mildly viral if it is on track to receive 10,000 views in 30 days. A video is considered somewhat viral if it is on track to receive 50,000 views in 30 days. A video is considered moderately viral if it is on track to receive 100,000 views in 30 days. A video is considered fully viral if it is on track to receive 500,000 views in 30 days. A video is considered epically viral if it is on track to receive 1,000,000 views in 30 days.

A copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States to authors of "original works of authorship." This includes literary, dramatic, musical, artistic and certain other creative works.

A database is a data structure that stores organized information. Most databases contain multiple tables, which may each include several different fields.

Nearly all e-commerce sites uses databases to store product inventory and customer information.

By storing website data in a database, the data can be easily searched, sorted, and updated.

Academic integrity is the core set of values and principles that underwrites the very mission of the University itself: integrity, honesty, hard work, and the determination to translate personal and professional principles into behavior.

For students, this ethic lies at the heart of the value of their degree.

For faculty, a high standard of academic integrity will ultimately lead to greater heights of academic rigor and freedom among students, a better reputation for MU, and more positive patterns of interaction with the student population.

The term Viral Video has come to be known as many things, but the general term seems to suggest that the content became very popular very quickly.

something people shared instinctively because it means something to them, or they just find it amusing or insightful.

Marketing uses viral videos by creating something of quality.

Systematically organized or structured repository of indexed information (usually as a group of linked data files) that allows easy retrieval, updating, analysis, and output of data.

this data could be in the form of graphics, reports, scripts, tables, text, etc., representing almost every kind of information.