Glossary of abbreviations
Somewhere on this site you may encounter an abbreviation, or acronym, that you're unfamiliar with, and isn't explained on that page. Here is your salvation.
- ABC
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Website: www.abc.net.au
- AFTRS
- Australian Film Television and Radio School
- Website: www.aftrs.edu.au
- AIFF
- Australian International Film Festival
- Website: www.aiff.com.au
- AIYFF
- Adelaide International Youth Film Festival
- Website: www.aiyff.com.au
- BTN
- Behind the News
- A program run by the ABC for schools that takes a more in-depth look at a select few topical news stories than the traditional news programs.
- Website: www.abc.net.au/btn/
- CEASA
- Council of Education Associations of South Australia
- Renamed as “Educators SA”
- Website addresses: ceasa.asn.au (old), educators-sa.sa.edu.au (new)
- GMIL
- (UNESCO) Global Media and Information Literacy
- Websites:
Media and Information Literacy
Global Media and Information Literacy Week
- HTML
- Hyper Text Markup Language
- What webpages are written using. It's text, plus descriptors of what kind of text it is (headings, paragraphs, links, etc).
- HTTP
- Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
- It's the general method used to fetch webpages, and other things over the web. Although it's primarily thought of as an access protocol (how you get a webpage), it can also be used in the other direction (like when submitting information to a site in a webform).
- Portable Document Format
- A type of file that's readable on a wide array of computing devices, and is designed so that documents can be printed in a consistent manner. If you want someone to be able to print your document, this is usually your best choice to submit it as.
- SAAME
- The South Australian Association for Media Eduction
- TLD
- Top Level Domain
- The final part of an internet domain name. e.g. Every domain that ends with .com is part of the .com top-level-domain. Domain name records branch out like a family tree. The family tree (so to speak), of domain names, is read backwards from the end of the phrase.
- In Australia, the .au ending is the top-level-domain (in this case it's a country code, a ccTLD), and .com.au is a second-level domain. Then you have third-level domains, such as sa.edu.au.
- UNESCO
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- Website: en.unesco.org
- UNESCO info on wikipedia
