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ICT

Information and Communication Technology, which means computers, mobile phones, digital cameras, satellite navigations systems, electronic instruments and data recorders, radio, television, computer networks, satellite systems … almost anything which handles and communicates information electronically. ICT includes both the hardware (the equipment) and the software (the computer programs in the equipment)

*source: UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers - Glossary (page 92-94)

ICT-CFT

UNESCO’s ICT Competency Framework for Teachers, also referred to as the Framework

*source: UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers - Glossary (page 92-94)

Internet

The internet and the world wide web (or web, or websites) are often used inter-changeably, but strictly speaking the internet is the network which connects computers around the world, and the websites are the documents, images and other material on the network.

*source: UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers - Glossary (page 92-94)

Internet Forum

Online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. They differ from chat rooms in that messages are often longer than one line of text, and are at least temporarily archived. Also, depending on the access level of a user or the forum set-up, a posted message might need to be approved by a moderator before it becomes visible.

A single conversation in a forum is called a "thread" or topic and a forum can contain a number of subforums, each of which may have several topics.