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Technology Applications: General Concepts 1

Subjects : it-skills, literacy
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1. A special education law that requires schools to educate students with disabilities in least restrictive environments to the greatest extent of their abilities using plans tailored to the individual needs of the students.






2. Piagetian view of how children learn by fitting new experiences into their existing view of the world






3. A form of evaluation that involves watching students as they work through some part(s) of the lesson.






4. Individuals who are learning English as their majority language for everyday uses - employment - and educational purposes. ELL also stands for English Language Learning






5. A form of education in which some means - electronic or otherwise - is used to connect people with instructors and/or resources that can help them acquire knowledge and skills; structured learning that takes place without the physical presence of the






6. The manner in which individuals identify themselves based on their (or their ancestors') country of origin.






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






8. 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.






9. Sequences of frames shown in a linear way with presentation software (e.g. - PowerPoint)






10. Sometimes called paint or raster graphics - in which each pixel directly corresponds to a spot on the display screen. When scaled to larger sizes - this type of graphic looks jagged or aliased; Developed originally for use on Disk Operating System (D






11. 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.






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






13. For learners of English and foreign languages - activities in which they use computers in language testing - teaching - and learning in and out of class






14. An individual who gains access to computer systems without authorization.






15. A type of instructional activity that leads students to want to learn and to put in the effort required for learning.






16. Applying scientific knowledge about human learning to the practical tasks of teaching and learning; the subset of educational technology that deals directly with teaching and learning applications (as opposed to educational administrative application






17. An online system of web course design and delivery tools; Desire-to-Learn and BlackBoard are examples






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






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






20. A term used on the Twitter system for a prefix to a message (Tweet)consisting of a pound sign (#)and a topic name (e.g. - #ripstevejobs). Users begin a Tweet with a hash tag to allow others to identify posts and create their own messages on that topi






21. A rule of thumb or flexible guideline that can be adapted to fit each instructional situation.






22. Storage inside the computer. The CPU in a personal computer retrieves and deposits information in the computer's internal memory. Also called main memory.






23. American Standard Code for Information Interchange; a standard way of representing text - which allows different computer brands to 'talk' to one another. It is sometimes referred to as plain text or unformatted text.






24. Compression is the process to reduce file size through 'zipping' or 'archiving'. The compressed or zipped file can be from a large file or can contain several files that have been squeezed into a single file. After compression - the extraction proces






25. The application of knowledge to solve problems or complete tasks that are realistic and meaningful.






26. 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.






27. The collection of all related records in a database.






28. 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






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






30. A term introduced by Whitehead in 1929 to mean skills that students learn in isolation but do not know how to transfer later to problems that require them






31. In printing - halftone refers to the technique of simulating shades of gray or color by varying the size of dots in a grid - or the number of pixels in a given area.






32. Ancillary feature of word processors that identifies a range of grammatical and format errors such as improper capitalization - lack of subject-verb agreement - split infinitives - and so on.






33. Short for metamorphosing; refers to an animation technique in which one image gradually turns into another; also known as tweening






34. A type of hypermedia authoring software from Adobe that has become commonly used to create interactive web-based animations






35. The process of determining which digital tools and which methods for implementing them are the most appropriate responses to given educational needs and problems






36. Software that is given away free of charge - but whose author still retains all rights.






37. Occurs when it is necessary to keep a certain position that is not relative to the new cell location. It is possible by inserting a dollar sign - $ - before the column letter or a $ before the row number - or sometimes both to lock the cell location






38. Ways of storing digitized images for use in webpages and multimedia products - e.g. - GIF - JPEG






39. Sections programmed to display on a web page; the contents of each frame are actually different web pages displayed on one screen; the term refers to a single complete graphic image that is displayed chronologically with other graphic images. A singl






40. A unique electronic address for an individual or organization - analogous to a postal address.






41. 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






42. A type of outsourcing in which many people are asked to give their input online to solve a problem that has proven resistant to efforts of single individuals or organizations






43. Stories that can be read from a computer screen - on mobile devices - or as print books with interactive buttons; also known as interactive storybooks






44. A type of printer that forms letters on the page by shooting tiny electrically charged droplets of ink.






45. Also called a personal computer - a stand-alone - desktop - or laptop computer that uses a microprocessor and is designed for use by an individual






46. Any pictorial representation of information such as charts - graphs - animated figures - or photographic reproductions.






47. Short for 'web log -' a web page that serves as a publicly accessible location for discussing a topic or issue; began as personal journals and expanded to become public discussion forums in which anyone can give opinions on a topic






48. 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 -






49. 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






50. Stands for 'Joint Photographic Experts Group -' an image format used for photographs; it is a format for encoding photographs that uses fewer bytes than the pixel-by-pixel approaches of GIF. It supports many colors and it is possible to obtain good q







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