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Technology Applications: General Concepts 1
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1. According to learning theorist Howard Gardner - nine different and relatively independent types of intelligence that may be fostered by differentiated instruction and assessment
Clip Art
Hypertext
multiple intelligences theory
Directory File Structure
2. Most animation software lets developers specify a beginning position and an ending position - then calculates the positions in between.
Criteria
long-term memory (LTM)
Animation - path
Highlighting
3. Content experts are also called subject matter experts (or SMEs). A content expert's roles and responsibilities include: researching the content - helping with storyboard - and writing all of the text. For many multimedia projects in education - SME
Instruction
Library/media specialist
Content expert
Mouse
4. Groups of people who 'meet -' usually via email - webpages - or other electronic means - to support each other's learning; in distance education - strategic - ongoing efforts by the instructor to encourage student-to-student interaction - as well as
learning communities
Analogy
Email Address
Inkjet printer
5. 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.
integrated packages
Conditions
Macro
Motivation
6. 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
Criteria
Mosaic
Instructional plan
Downloading
7. Computer actions or programs - such as hypermedia software - that respond to events in the environment; for example - a mouse action event that occurs when the user clicks on a button.
Directory File Structure
Classroom Observation
Event Driven
Model
8. The use of the computer in the delivery of instruction.
Cognitive Load
Computer-Based Instruction (CBI)
Blog
Java
9. 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
Computer Program
Cognitive Overload
multimedia
Mouse
10. 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
Database filters and queries
Image Formats
Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
Interactive media
11. A small text file transferred to a web browser through an Internet server for the purpose of tracking the Internet usage habits of the person using the browser
Cookie
Display Boards
Forms Makers
Interactive media
12. A graphic representation of a real person in cyberspace; a three dimensional image that a person can choose to represent himself or herself in a virtual reality environment
Crowdsourcing
Displayed Visuals
Animation - path
Avatar
13. 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.
Instructional efficiency
Admission Review and Dismissal (ARD)
Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) format
Assistive Technology
14. A computer input device that permits the development of graphic images by translating drawing on the tablet into onscreen images.
Graphics Tablet
MP3
Hypermedia
Intrinsic motivation
15. Also known as a hot link or hot spot. On the Internet - a piece of text or an image that has been programmed into a web page to send the browser to another Internet location; in a multimedia product - a piece of text or an image that has been program
Culture
Event Driven
music sequencer
link
16. Individuals who are learning English as their majority language for everyday uses - employment - and educational purposes. ELL also stands for English Language Learning
English Language Learners (ELL)
integrated packages
Cooperative Learning
Implementation
17. A magnification system in which a video camera is mounted on a frame with a television monitor. Users place materials on the desktop below the camera - set the desired magnification level - move the materials around as necessary - and information app
Image Editing Programs
Concept Map
Closed Circuit Television (CCTV)
Firewall
18. A common term in science education reform - synonymous with immersing students in authentic learning experiences
Computer Conferencing
Augmented Reality
Digital Divide
Hands-On/Minds-On Science
19. A computer system that stores and manipulates a database of information about geographic locations; users see data pertaining to a geographic location overlaid on a map of the area
JPEG (also JPG)
Animation
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Computer Gradebook
20. Input/output devices that provide for storage and retrieval of programs and other types of data that must be stored over a long period of time. Also referred to as external or auxiliary memory.
Audiographics
Mass storage
Enactive Learning
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
21. A form of evaluation that involves having a knowledgeable person come into the classroom to watch a lesson in process - to comment on how well the materials and activities work - and to make suggestions for improvements.
Classroom Observation
Compact Disc (CD)
Antecedent
Computer
22. Flaming messages are messages which express overly strong feelings. Spam is the term for e-mail junk mail - which should not be for¬warded. Chain letters are letters that have been forwarded from several previous e-mail readers. According to netiquet
Asynchronous
Internet
Encoding
Flaming - spam - and chain letter
23. Guidelines limiting the rights of copyright holders and allowing portions of copyrighted materials to be used for educational purposes; guidelines for portion - time - amount - and distribution of copyrighted materials for educational purposes.
Directory File Structure
Graphing Calculator
Computer Algebra System (CAS)
Fair Use Guidelines
24. 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
Multimedia authoring programs
Case Study
Authoring Software
Encoding
25. The interest - or value - that instructional materials or activities have for the learner.
Copyright
Instructional appeal
Gesture-Recognition System
Attachments
26. 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
Graphic Document Makers
Content expert
Instructional designer
Exergaming
27. The practice of collecting data from all the information available and searching it to see relationships among the data elements
Data Mining
Cyberbullying
learning communities
Application Activity
28. A worldwide radio-navigation system made possible by a bank of orbiting satellites and their ground stations to pinpoint exact geographic locations on earth; a device that cross-references a GPS signal with mapping software and shows the location to
Global Positioning System (GPS)
Computer-Assisted Design (CAD)
Consequence
Charting/Graphing Tool
29. The set of high-speed data lines connecting the major networks that make up the Internet.
Instructional appeal
Emoticons
Electronic Whiteboard
Backbone
30. A level of skill that allows a person to respond immediately (i.e. - automatically) with the correct answer to a problem
meta-analysis
Blog
Desktop Publishing (DTP)
Automaticity
31. 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
Application Activity
Input/Output Device
Computer System
Cognitive Load
32. In Adobe Flash - an advanced authoring environment for creating content for the web - a mobile - or virtually any digitalplatform
Contingencies Of Reinforcement
Audio Video Interleave (AVI) Format
Content expert
ActionScript
33. Combines detailed information about a subject area and common student mistakes with a model of student performance to diagnose a given student's level of understanding. Also provides instruction designed to meet that student's individual needs. Somet
Intelligent tutoring system
multiple intelligences theory
Automaticity
Avatar
34. '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
DVD
Cybercheating
Hypermedia
Lossless and lossy compressions
35. Typeface used in word processing or desktop publishing; the appearance of the text itself - which can be altered through the selection of various typefaces and sizes of type. These include many typefaces common to the printing field - such as Times -
Image Capture
Font
Dithering
Conditional Information
36. Texts in digital form that may be read on a computer or e-book readers; becoming a popular alternative to printed texts
Megabyte
Automaticity
e-books (ebooks)
Event Driven
37. Term coined in 1984 by the president of the Aldus Corporation to refer to the activity of using software to produce documents that gives users a high degree of control over the composition and layout of material on a printed page - including both tex
Desktop Publishing (DTP)
Learning style
Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT)
Instruction
38. Pavlovian view of learning as involuntary physical responses to outside stimuli (e.g. - dogs salivate automatically at the sight of a dog food can)
Classical Conditioning
Groupware
Feedback
information and communication technology (ICT)
39. Literally 'multiple media' or 'a combination of media -' a software product or system that incorporates sequential or simultaneous use of a variety of media formats in a single presentation or program. Today - this term conveys the notion of a system
Mailing list
Alternative Keyboard
instant messaging (IM)
multimedia
40. A communications service that allows users to create a private chat room which only members of a mutually agreed upon list may enter; the system alerts a user when someone from the IM list is online; IM also designates the act of instant messaging -
Classroom Observation
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Assessment
instant messaging (IM)
41. Piagetian view of condition children experience when they confront new and unfamiliar features of their environment that do not fit with their current views of the world
Computer Program
Disequilibrium
Datafile
Multimedia authoring programs
42. Condition that occurs when an impairment limits an individual from performing an activity in a manner normally expected for human beings (communicating with others - hearing - movement - manipulating objects - etc.)
Disability
Megabyte
microcomputer
Hash Tag
43. A revision of the HTML standard that provides many of the features of a Flash environment without using Flash
Flowcharting
HTML 5
Instructional appeal
ASP.NET
44. Sometimes referred to as the ADDIE model - the current version of systems approach of instructional design is a process comprised of a series of phases: analysis - design - development - implementation - and evaluation. Currently - almost all ISD mod
File Server
Copyright
ADDIE model
inert knowledge
45. Bitmaps are graphics stored patterns of colored dots (pixels on the screen). Vector graphics are stored as mathematical descriptions of sets of lines - triangles - squares - circles - etc - with defined line widths - line colors and - for polygons -
mobile device
Impairment
Bitmap and vector graphics
Blu-Ray Disc
46. A type of information that describes the potential usefulness of facts - concepts - and principles.
Electronic Mentor
language translators (machine translation)
Intrinsic motivation
Conditional Information
47. A type of learning that refers to the ability to perform complex physical actions in a smooth - coordinated manner.
Motor skills
Cursor
Bandwidth
Discovery Learning
48. A type of computer virus that is set to 'go off' (i.e. - carry out its program) at a certain time
Bulletin Board (BB)
logic bomb
MUD
instant messaging (IM)
49. 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
Hypermedia
Flash
instructional software
microcomputer
50. Subject matter expert who volunteers to work closely with students online
Electronic Mentor
Avatar
interactive whiteboard activity software
CPU