Download: to copy a package of information (such as a file or application) from the Internet on to a computer or mobile device.

Installation: to save a file or application on your computer or mobile device. This is what happens, usually automatically, once you have downloaded the file of application from the Internet.

App (application): a piece of software designed for specific function, this is usually downloaded to mobile device.

Operating system: the base software which lets you communicate with the supports your computer or mobile phone’s functionality and lets you to communicate with it, like an intermediary inside the phone. Android is one such operating system.

Register: To record a profile of yourself in the app (usually an email address or username and then password) so that your can save your activities and progress, and continue each time you come back.

Log in/sign in: To enter your name/ email and password when you come back to an app, so you can return to your previous activities.

Password: A private phrase or word that only you know – and is used to sign-in to online accounts, such as email or Facebook.

3G/4G (third generation, fourth generation): These are standards or ways that we connect our phones to the Internet. If you are connected to the mobile Internet (but not through Wifi) you should see a 3G or 4G sign at the top of your mobile screen.

Links: these are website references in a webpage or electronic document which let you display or connect to another document or webpage.

URL (Uniform Resource Locator): the address of any document, file or website available on the internet. Examples include www.facebook.com and www.bbc.com

Open source: this refers to computer software, like Webmaker, where the source code is made "open" so that anyone may view, change or distribute a version of the software for any purpose. 

Remixing: to create a version of a project, based on the original, but incoporating new elements.

Sharing: how we distribute our thoughts, feedback and projects over the internet. We share them through comments, web projects and updates.

Non-linear navigation: a multi directional way of formatting Webmaker projects or websites to tell a dynamic and illustrative story. This is how projects or websites can take you in lots of different information directions.

RGBA and # (tinker mode): (Red Green Blue Alpha) is a colour palette, and way of adjusting or ‘tinkering’ with this colour palette through increasing or decreasing different amounts of colour.