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Technology Applications: General Concepts 1
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1. Devices that assist with analyzing and monitoring physical fitness levels by monitoring and reporting blood pressure
Blood Pressure Devices
inert knowledge
Electronic Gradebook
Data Mining
2. Online sites that function like other dictionaries in that they give definitions for words and phrases in common usage - but provide the additional capability of looking up the word or phrase in one language (e.g. - French or German) and get the defi
Foreign Language Dictionaries
Distractors
Backbone
Mnemonic
3. The most common input device; resembles the key layout of a typewriter.
Macro
Datafile
Keyboard
Hybrid Learning
4. Type of virtual reality (VR) system in which i a user places a headset (e.g. - goggles or a helmet) over the eyes to provide a channel through which the wearer 'sees' (i.e. - is immersed in) a computer-generated environment
Blended Intercultural Collaborations
Full Immersion Systems
Head-Mounted Display (HMD)
Data Mining
5. A type of information that includes facts - concepts - principles - and the relationships among them.
Declarative Information
Laser printer
Consequence
Clip Art
6. One of the rights accorded to the owner of copyright is the right to reproduce or to authorize others to reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords. This right is subject to certain limitations found in sections 107 through 118 of the copyright law
Evaluation Activity
interactive whiteboard activity software
Bulletin Board (BB)
Fair Use
7. 'Lossless' compression such as the GIF format is generally safer for recompression since it utilizes 'lossless' compression. Meaning when the GIF image is compressed - no information is lost from its contents. On the other hand - formats that utilize
Instructional materials
Avatar Spaces
Hits
Lossless and lossy compressions
8. Video games that provide physical activity or exercise through interactive play
Exergaming
Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT)
Augmented Reality
Handicap
9. An outline - preview - or other such pre-instructional cue used to promote retention of content to be learned.
Analogy
Impairment
Monitor
Advance Organizer
10. A combination input and output device that allows a computer to communicate with another computer over telephone or cable TV lines; (short for modulator-demodulator) converts digital computer information into sound (and vice versa) for transmission o
inert knowledge
Electronic Storybooks
Educational Technology
Modem
11. Information provided to students regarding how well they are doing during practice.
Electronic Mail (email)
Hypermedia
multimedia
Feedback
12. Computer programs used to develop multimedia or Web applications; programs used to create documents utilizing point and click features but require some knowledge of the program; authoring programs such as Adobe Flash can be used to create multimedia
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)
Authoring Software
Hits
Course Management System (CMS)
13. A way to store addresses of frequently used websites on your computer; in a browser - a set of Internet locations or URLs organized so that a user can return to them quickly
Bookmark
Electronic Whiteboard
Byte
Iris
14. A type of problem solving that requires students to actively participate in real or hypothetical problem situations that reflect the types of experiences actually encountered in the discipline under study
Gesture-Recognition System
Lossy compression
Case Study
Ethnicity
15. The selection and arrangement of information - activities - methods - and media to help students meet predetermined learning goals.
Instruction
Adventure Learning (AL)
integrated packages
Beta version
16. Abbreviation for application - software that normally has an extension of .app and refers to any Internet application specifically designed to run on mobile devices such as smartphones
Admission Review and Dismissal (ARD)
Equilibration
App
Instructional technology
17. Research finding that formats that are beneficial for one group have a negative impact on a group with the opposite characteristic
Database
English Language Learners (ELL)
Dithering
Aptitude-Treatment Interaction (ATI)
18. A device that assists with analyzing and monitoring physical fitness levels by determining the percent of body fat
music sequencer
Cognitive Overload
Electronic Gradebook
Body Composition Analyzer
19. A single networked delivery system that combines sophisticated computer-assisted instruction (CAI) with computer-managed instruction (CMI). Intellectual skills A type of learning that refers to a variety of thinking skills - including concept learnin
Integrated learning system (IIS)
Geocaching
FAQ
Demonstration
20. Professional organization for music educators
Highlighting
Musical Educators National Conference (MENC)
Mnemonic
Instructional efficiency
21. A portion of the instructional objective that indicates the standards that define acceptable performance.
Designing Instruction
Fair Use
Criteria
Beta version
22. A blueprint for instructional lessons based on analyses of the learners - the context - and the task to be learned. Planning involves the process of deciding what methods of instruction are best for bringing about desired changes in student knowledge
Knowledge
Ethnicity
Instructional plan
music editor
23. A worldwide collection of computer networks that can exchange information by using a common software standard; sometimes referred to (erroneously) as synonymous with the World Wide Web (WWW) - which is actually a subset of the Internet
Instructional technology
Impairment
Internet
Displayed Visuals
24. Multimedia that allows user interactions so that the user can determine the direction of the program or presentation.
Auto-correct
Alpha testing
Fair Use Guidelines
Interactive multimedia
25. Also known as a web browser - software designed to allow a computer user to go to Internet websites that are connected to each other via the World Wide Web (WWW)
Browser
information visualization
Hands-On/Minds-On Science
Electronic Mentor
26. The primary authoring language used to develop webpages; Its codes are document formatting codes that tell Web browsers how to display the page on the screen. Its files contain the text to be displayed on the Web page embedded in its unique 'tag' lan
Audiographics
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
long-term memory (LTM)
Monitor
27. An instructional method that involves showing how to do a task as well as describing why - when - and where it is done. Provides a real or lifelike example of the skill or procedure to be learned.
Behavior
Distance Education
Files
Demonstration
28. 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
Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
Byte
Directory File Structure
Learning Theory
29. Software available in both CD and the Web formats. Electronic encyclopedia - including not only pictures - but sound and video as well. They also have powerful key word searching capabilities. In addition to electronic encyclopedias - research journa
Computer Conferencing
Electronic reference software
Auto-correct
Motivation
30. Software that uses e-mail to deliver topic specific information to a targeted group of respondents.
Mailing list
Groupware
Attitudes
Computer System
31. A measure of the difference between what learners know before and after instruction; for example - Posttest - Pretest = Achievement.
inquiry-based learning
Graphic Document Makers
Flaming - spam - and chain letter
Instructional effectiveness
32. A video or computer display device. The most common output device for personal computers.
Desktop Publishing (DTP)
Monitor
Hacker
Constructivism
33. Systems that allow individuals to view and examine the world through multiple layering of geographic data within a spatial environment; use of technology for visualization - analysis - and measurement of features and phenomena
Geospatial Technologies
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
Lossless and lossy compressions
Evaluation Activity
34. An individual's preferred ways for processing and organizing information and for responding to environmental stimuli.
Formula
Feedback
Learning style
Library/media specialist
35. Any practical device used to make information easier to remember - including rhymes - acronyms - and acrostics.
Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
Mnemonic
Directory File Structure
logic bomb
36. A computer database program that can store and manipulate students' grades.
logic bomb
Instructional plan
Cursor
Computer Gradebook
37. A single block in a spreadsheet grid - formed by the intersection of a row and a column that may contain numerical values - words - or character data - and formulas or calculation commands.
Antivirus software
Byte
Data Mining
Cell
38. Also known as information design uses pictures - symbols - colors - and words to communicate ideas - illustrate information - or express relationships visually.
interactive whiteboard
information visualization
instructional software
Browser
39. Devices that record data over time with sensors
Data Loggers
CD-ROM (Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory)
Conditional Information
Global Positioning System (GPS)
40. In language learning international class-to-class partnerships in which projects and casks are developed by the partner teachers in the collaborating institutions; students work with students of other cultures to provide authentic writing and researc
LCD projector
Blended Intercultural Collaborations
multiple intelligences theory
Automaticity
41. A graphical representation of interrelated concepts that students can use as a learning aid or that teachers can use as an aid in content organization; tools designed to help people think through and explore ideas or topics by developing these visual
Concept Map
Closed Circuit Television (CCTV)
Geocaching
Javascript
42. The interest - or value - that instructional materials or activities have for the learner.
Flash
Instructional appeal
Fair Use Guidelines
Behavior
43. A measurement appraisal process that is ongoing - developmentally appropriate - and dynamic; the process of gathering evidence of learning.
Assessment
Electronic Gradebook
Compensation
Listserv
44. A condition that arises when an individual is unable to fulfill a role due to an impairment or disability
Handicap
music editor
logic bomb
Augmented Reality
45. Software tools that create documents and web pages with 'fillable' forms
Dithering
Essential Processing
Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
Forms Makers
46. 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
Input/Output Device
Cognitive Load
Audiographics
Individualized education program (IEP)
47. A mathematical expression that directs an electronic spreadsheet to perform various kinds of calculations on the numbers entered in it; in a spreadsheet - a command inserted in a cell and used to do calculations on data
Cursor
Digital Camera
Formula
Interactive media
48. According to learning theorist Howard Gardner - nine different and relatively independent types of intelligence that may be fostered by differentiated instruction and assessment
Conditions
multiple intelligences theory
inert knowledge
Application Activity
49. The systematic process of translating principles of learning and instruction into plans for instructional materials and activities.
Instructional design
Halftone
Filtering Software
Attachments
50. A network created in 1969 by the U.S. government-funded Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to enable communications among important defense sites in the event of a worldwide catastrophe such as a nuclear attack; later became the Internet
ARPAnet
Beta version
Attachments
Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI)