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 | RVG approval  | Seth vetted  | Term  | Context  | Definition | General comments | Display?  | Created  | | Modified  | |    |
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 : : A (14) |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | A component task or activity of an Initiative. An activist or crewmember working on an Initiative plays a Role made up of one or more Actions. |
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| No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting | The Presenter indicated in the "Now Presenting" pane of the Live Meeting console. Since the Active Presenter must be manually designated by (any) Presenter, it may or may not actually reflect the speaker or the person currently sharing resources or applications. | | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General | The intended end-user and beneficiary of the Star Cafe. | | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | Star Cafe Room |
A link on the banner that takes a user to the admin options of a Room.
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | Star Cafe Room |
A set of links in a Star Café Room (accessed via the Admin link) that allows a user to change his or her personal information, and that allows a Room Administrator to change features of the Room.
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | Live Meeting |
The capability of participants to add modifications to an imported resource or collaboartive slide. Includes highlighter, lines, shapes, stamps and text.
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | No | | Star Cafe Room |
A web part found in many rooms.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | No | | General | | | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | Live Meeting |
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
A service which enables multiple, remotely-located people to speak and listen to one another in real time. This can be done via telephone (as with Complete Conference, AT Conference, Asterisk Audio Rooms and freeconference.com) or via computer (as with Skype).
| | Yes | | | | | |  : : B (7) |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | Live Meeting | The means of communication among IT Support staff (and possibly other participants) which is concurrent with, but independent of, the Live Meeting itself. This may be done via an Instant Messaging service. | | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | Live Meeting |
The person who organizes the backchannel during a Live Meeting event, including initiating the IM call(s).
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Star Cafe Room |
The top portion of any Star Café page, which includes the Star Café logo, the Room Title, the Page Title, and the Home and Admin (and occasionally Help and Up) links.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
Short for "web log", a blog is a web-based publication with frequent, chronologically ordered contributions from one or more people. More info, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog.
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Star Cafe Room |
A list of links displayed below the banner that shows the position of the currently viewed page in relation to hierarchically broader pages of the Room. The links read from left to right, from broader (or "higher") pages to progessively narrow (or "lower") pages..
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
Same as web browser. A software program that enables a computer to display pages from the World Wide Web.
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
A web-based service which enables multiple participants to post messages, respond to previously posted messages and hold discussions. (Known by many other names, including Discussion Board and Internet Forum.) More info, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum.
| | Yes | | | | | |  : : C (14) |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General |
A metaphorical representation of an Action. See also Hand and Deck.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting |
Any of the Resources created within the Live Meeting environment, including Whiteboard, Web Slide, Text Slide, Poll or Snapshot
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | Usually referred to as CQ. A collaborative educational process for a small number of people to build knowledge or skills in a particular area. Although it uses Star Cafe tools, it may use other resources as well. |
made inactive on 2007-09-25 replaced by "CQ" only
| No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
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xx Facilitator (General)
| Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General |
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Star Cafe Room |
Something added to a Star Cafe Room by a Room Administrator (e.g., web part, navigation area item, new view). Distinguished from content (contributed by users).
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting |
A group of Live Meeting participants sharing a single computer. (A single person at a computer is considered a cluster as well.)
| | | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting |
The screen displayed to a participant during a Live Meeting session. The console is composed of panes for specific functions (e.g., to display the attendees, to enable questions to be asked, ...)
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | Star Cafe Room |
Data contributed by users to Star Cafe Rooms (e.g., records, list items, survey responses), or other repositories. Distinguished from component (added by Room Administrators).
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
A structured web conference with specific protocols for the exchange of knowedge in the Star Cafe. From the Latin word colloqui which means "to talk together". This is a specific formatted learning group defined 2007-09-25 by the Star Cafe Crew.
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Unpreferred (out of date) term is Colloquium.
2007-09-25 We have been kicking this around for 6 months. Larry was the pilot lead with RVG and Lem very active in the process.
| Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
The total collection of volunteers, staff and consultants who provide activists using Star Cafe tools with administration, support or training. (Crewmembers may also be activists.)
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
A specific volunteer, staffmember or consultant who provides administration, support or training in using the Star Cafe. May be used in the context of a given situation or Initiative.
| | Yes | | | | | |  : : D (10) |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General |
A metaphorical representation of the total Actions undertaken for a given Initiative. See also Card and Hand.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting |
The person controlling the flow of the Live Meeting presentation. If not also the facilitator, the director must work very closely with the facilitator, and must have presenter status. Could be a member of IT Support.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | Yes | | General |
A web-based service which enables multiple participants to post messages, respond to previously posted messages and hold discussions. (Known by many other names, including Bulletin Board and Internet Forum.) More info, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum.
| | Yes | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General |
The name associated with a Star Cafe user account which is displayed to identify the user (e.g., as the source of some information entered into a web part).
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting |
The string of characters that identifies who is using a particular computer in Live Meeting.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Live Meeting |
1. One type of Resource, which has been imported into Live Meeting for presentation. 2) a file which can be shared by a Presenter via Application or Desktop sharing.
| | No | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | Star Cafe Room | | | | | | | | |  : : e (9) |  | Not yet looked at | | | General | | | | | | | | |  | Not yet looked at | | | General |
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A software program that enables a computer to send and receive email messages.
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