Asynchronous: Termed which refers to events happening at different spans of time. In the online classrooms, students post to the course at different times as opposed to insta-messaging where you are responding to someone and they are responding to you synchronistically, or at the same time.
Discussion Board: The place designated for students to respond to the instructor and each other online.
Emoticons: Example: happy face (-: using the keyboard on your computer. There are many examples of good and bad emoticons.
Abbreviations: Not all abbreviations are commonly known, but here are a few of the more widely accepted and commonly used:
- Lol lots of laughter
- Brb be right back
- BTW by the way
- J/J just joking
- TIA thanks in advance
- <g> grin
- <s> smile
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