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Technology Applications: General Concepts 1

Subjects : it-skills, literacy
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1. Online environments in which users can interact through their graphic representations (i.e. - avatars)






2. In cognitive load theory - mental activity uses cognitive capacity but does not help the learner learn






3. A field of study focusing on the design of technology systems that align with human characteristics - needs - and capabilities.






4. Most animation software lets developers specify a beginning position and an ending position - then calculates the positions in between.






5. A term coined by Lloyd Morrisett - former president of the Markle Foundation - used to describe the gap between those individuals who have access to technology such as computer software - the Internet - and so on and those who do not.






6. An individual's preferred ways for processing and organizing information and for responding to environmental stimuli.






7. New term for information technology or educational technology; refers to all technologies used in education and training - as well as strategies for using them; originally in more common use outside the U.S. - but becoming more popular worldwide due






8. A distance education technology that uses a speakerphone to extend a basic telephone call and permits instruction and interaction between individuals or groups at two or more locations.






9. On computer networks - a location for person-to-person real-time (synchronous) interaction by typing messages.






10. Device consisting of a transmitter - which senses the heartbeat from the heart's electrical impulses - and a wristwatch receiver - which receives and records each beat through radio transmission from the transmitter






11. An internal network or a subset of the Internet - usually available only to the members of the organization that set it up; as a provision for security - some technical department set up Intranets which are parts of the Internet used internally withi






12. Software tools that simplify the activity of making highly graphic materials such as awards certificates and greeting cards by offering sets of clip art and pre-designed templates to which people add their own content






13. Software that provides on-screen blank musical bars on which the user enters the musical key - time - and individual notes that constitute a piece of sheet music






14. A pointing device used to select and move information on the computer display screen. When the mouse is moved along a flat surface such as a desktop - an arrow moves across the display screen in the same direction. The mouse typically has one to thre






15. Antidote utilities to detect - eliminate and protect from viruses - worms and Trojans. It typically contains an engine - a resident virus shield - virus databases or DAT files - a task scheduler - an e-mail scanner - and an update manager. It guards






16. A system of information representation in which the information-text - graphics - animation - audio - and/or video is stored in interlinked nodes; software that allows information stored in various media or various parts of media to be connected (oft






17. Video games that provide physical activity or exercise through interactive play






18. Activity when students submit their written or artistic products to a website






19. Television-like display screen that uses a cathode ray tube.






20. The application of technological processes and tools which can be used to solve problems of instruction and learning with an emphasis on applying the most current digital and information tools.






21. An event - object - or circumstance that prompts a behavior.






22. The beta version of instructional software is a full-functioning version of the product with all known problems resolved. Both the client and the design team review the beta version to search for problems that will need to be addressed. Since the bet






23. An instructional method that involves small heterogeneous groups of students working toward a common academic goal or task. Its use promotes positive interdependence - individual accountability - collaborative/social skills - and group processing ski






24. Category of visuals that are generally exhibited on display boards - (e.g. - multipurpose boards - bulletin boards) and are not projected.






25. A compression standard that produces compressed - high-quality audio files. To create an MP3 file - you need a program that copies a song from a CD or download from the Internet to your hard drive - and an encoder to convert the file to the MP3 forma






26. An agreement created by a school or other educational organization that describes the risks involved in Internet use; outlines appropriate - safe student behavior on the Internet; asks students if they agree to use the Internet under these conditions






27. Feedback that tells students specifically what they can do to correct their performance.






28. A statistical method designed by Gene V Glass (1976) to summarize results across studies and measure the size of the effect a 'treatment' such as technology-based methods has over and above traditional methods






29. A type of instructional activity designed to help students understand - remember - and apply new information.






30. The amount of working memory that is available to a learner to process new information and that is taken up at a given time by a learning task






31. Digitally encoded information permanently recorded on a compact disc; Also known as compact disc - read-only memory. It is a compact disc used to store computer data. CD-ROMs have a maximum capacity of 650MB.






32. A school specialist who helps students and teachers to become effective users of ideas and information by providing access to materials - providing instruction - and working with teachers to design learning strategies to meet the needs of individual






33. An authoring specification on the Internet for how data will be collected at a website - CGI programs are written in a language such as PERL






34. First released in 2002 - a scripting language that must be installed on a server to be used in web development; a scripting language that generates HTML source code to create dynamic web pages






35. Also referred to as a domain designator - a required part of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) on the Internet that indicates what kind of group owns the server; examples include '.edu -' '.com -' and '.org'






36. Professional organization for music educators






37. An instructional designer's roles and responsibilities include: researching K-12 educator user requirements for portal development - multi-media tools and video-mediated learning - determining the screen layout - creating the flowcharts - and specify






38. In desktop publishing - the first letter of a paragraph that is enlarged to 'drop' down two or more line. Drop caps are often seen at the beginning of newsletter article - where the top of the first letter of the first word lines up with the top of t






39. Applications software that is designed specifically to deliver or assist with student instruction on a topic; software that can be used to enhance teaching and learning in many ways. Drill and practice - educational games - tutorials - simulation - a






40. In education - academic dishonesty in which someone uses another's work obtained from the Internet as his/her own - also known as online cheating






41. A shortcut to encoding a series of actions in a computer program. Provides the means to perform a number of separate steps through a single command.






42. The adaptive use of previously acquired knowledge to analyze and understand new situations.






43. Adaptive technologies are designed specifically for persons with disabilities. These are devices that extend the abilities of an individual with special needs in ways that provide physical access (i.e. - wheelchairs - braces) and sensory access (i.e.






44. A question typically used at the beginning of a lesson to direct students' attention to particularly important aspects of the new information.






45. Small - stand-alone - portable personal computer system






46. A collection of components that includes the computer and all of the devices used with it.






47. A device that includes a display screen connected to a computer and digital projector; allows information projected on the screen to be manipulated with special pens or one's hands and also allows drawings or notes from a given session to be saved an






48. One of several digital formats for video that are able to be used with video editing software






49. The practice of collecting data from all the information available and searching it to see relationships among the data elements






50. Use of online systems to access personal data in order to accomplish identity theft and do other malicious acts