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Technology Applications: General Concepts 1
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1. 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
Augmented Reality
Consequence
Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
Electronic Slide Shows
2. Tools offered through a special Google site that provide users access to online programs for word processing - spreadsheets - and presentations; the site offers storage of documents on a Google server and allows for sharing of documents among multipl
Local-area network (LAN)
Body Composition Analyzer
Google Docs
CMYK graphics
3. Motivation in which the act itself is the reward.
Intrinsic motivation
inert knowledge
Chat Room
Hard Copy
4. An online system of web course design and delivery tools; Desire-to-Learn and BlackBoard are examples
Google Docs
Key word
Course Management System (CMS)
Corrective Feedback
5. 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
Learning
Foreign Language (FL)
Geographic Information System (GIS)
interactive or dynamic geometry software
6. A highlighted position indicator used on the computer screen.
Conditions
Bitmap and vector graphics
Drop cap
Cursor
7. A set of guidelines used to reliably appraise or judge products or performances.
integrated packages
inquiry-based learning
EPS (Encapsulated PostScript)
Assessment Rubric
8. Growing problem of online harassment in social networks
Audio Video Interleave (AVI) Format
Label
Aptitude-Treatment Interaction (ATI)
Cyberbullying
9. A unique vocal distortion technique made possible with vocal-editing software
Flaming - spam - and chain letter
Data Loggers
FAQ
Auto-tuning
10. On computer networks - a location for person-to-person real-time (synchronous) interaction by typing messages.
link
Chat Room
High-Level Language
Interlacing
11. Approximately a million bytes - or 1000 kilobytes.
Megabyte
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Application Activity
Assessment
12. In a browser - a set of Internet locations or URLs organized so that a user can return to them quickly
Backbone
Favorites File
ARPAnet
Equilibration
13. Approximately a billion bytes - or 1 -000 megabytes.
Likert scale
Gigabyte
Compression and extraction tools
Focusing Question
14. Also known as information design uses pictures - symbols - colors - and words to communicate ideas - illustrate information - or express relationships visually.
Disability
imagemap
information visualization
Compression and extraction tools
15. A computer database program that can store and manipulate students' grades.
Computer Gradebook
mastery learning
Advance Organizer
long-term memory (LTM)
16. 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'
Hardware
intranet
ASCII format
Domain Name
17. The purpose of interlacing is to have a partial image initially appear on screen rather than having to wait for the entire image to download. The main advantage of interlacing is that end users know what type of graphic image they are about to view a
Corrective Feedback
Library/media specialist
Haptic Interface
Interlacing
18. Programs that allow users to create and manipulate geometric constructions and provide environments in which to make discoveries and conjectures related to geometry concepts and objects
Augmented Reality
Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) format
interactive or dynamic geometry software
Dithering
19. 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
Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
Bitmap and vector graphics
Fair Use
Heuristic
20. Similar to distance education - the notion of supporting learners - who may be situated locally or at a distance - with learning resources that may be distributed in space and time.
Graphics Tablet
Distributed Education
Learning in context
Java
21. An assessment instrument consisting of a series of statements with which students indicate their degree of agreement or disagreement; created by psychologist Rensis Likert
Cloud Computing
Likert scale
Body Composition Analyzer
JPEG (also JPG)
22. 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
Assimilation
Accommodation
Mouse
ADDIE model
23. A statement that likens something new to something familiar. Analogies are typically used either to make abstract information more concrete or to organize complex information.
Interactive media
Analogy
joystick
English Language Learners (ELL)
24. In education - academic dishonesty in which someone uses another's work obtained from the Internet as his/her own - also known as online cheating
Knowledge
Cybercheating
Auto-tuning
Graphics Tablet
25. A computer network covering a limited geographical area - such as a single building or even a single room within a building; in a typical local area network (or LAN) configuration - one computer is designated as the file server which stores all of th
Local-area network (LAN)
Hacking
Macro
CLI
26. According to learning theorists Benjamin Bloom and B. F. Skinner - an instructional approach in which students learn a sequence of objectives that define mastery of the subject; students pass tests on each objective to demonstrate they have mastered
Motor skills
Musical Educators National Conference (MENC)
Enactive Learning
mastery learning
27. The preliminary or main web page of a particular website.
Home Page
Hands-On/Minds-On Science
Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) format
Audiographics
28. 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
Highlighting
Integrated learning system (IIS)
Mouse
Classroom Observation
29. An associational information-processing system in the text domain. In a hypertext system - text information is stored in nodes - and nodes are interconnected to other nodes of related information; in 1960 - Ted Nelson coined the term to describe a da
Head-Mounted Display (HMD)
inquiry-based learning
Hypertext
inert knowledge
30. 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
Home Page
Grammar Checker
Interactive multimedia
Blended Intercultural Collaborations
31. The iris is used to control the opening behind the lens that allows light to enter the camera. When lighting is low the iris may be opened to let in more light. And when the light level is high the iris can be partially closed to let in less light. B
Computer System
Iris
Computer Algebra System (CAS)
Circular reference
32. Short for metamorphosing; refers to an animation technique in which one image gradually turns into another; also known as tweening
Image Formats
Corrective Feedback
morphing
Conditions
33. Multimedia that allows user interactions so that the user can determine the direction of the program or presentation.
Desktop Publishing (DTP)
Interactive multimedia
Icon
laptop computer
34. A revision of the HTML standard that provides many of the features of a Flash environment without using Flash
HTML 5
Behavior
Computer Platforms
Favorites File
35. A computer language that contains instructions that resemble natural language and that does not require knowledge of the inner workings of the computer to use successfully.
Google Docs
High-Level Language
Blu-Ray Disc
Digital Storytelling
36. An outline - preview - or other such pre-instructional cue used to promote retention of content to be learned.
Implementation
Disability
Clip Art
Advance Organizer
37. A camera that stores pictures in computer compatible digital format rather than on film.
Formative Evaluation
Digital Camera
Instructional designer
Freeware
38. The practice of collecting data from all the information available and searching it to see relationships among the data elements
Data Mining
Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
Assessment
Distractors
39. An individual's preferred ways for processing and organizing information and for responding to environmental stimuli.
Learning style
Data Mining
learner-centered instruction
Antecedent
40. A technique that reduces the amount of a graphic that shows or prints.
Cropping
Flash
Heuristic
Adventure Learning (AL)
41. 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
File Server
Beta version
Compensation
Internal memory
42. 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 -
Musical Educators National Conference (MENC)
Digital Camera
Analogy
Bitmap and vector graphics
43. The application of knowledge to solve problems or complete tasks that are realistic and meaningful.
Google Docs
Feedback
Electronic reference software
Learning in context
44. 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
Beta version
Educational Media
Mouse
Evaluation
45. In cognitive load theory - the use of working memory that results in productive - engaged learning
Likert scale
Generative Processing
Frame
Hardware
46. Combinations of type characters that resemble human faces when turned sideways. Used to indicate emotion or intent on e-mail or in chat rooms.
Filtering Software
Emoticons
Digital Divide
ARPAnet
47. A question typically used at the beginning of a lesson to direct students' attention to particularly important aspects of the new information.
Focusing Question
Graphic
Digitizer
Asynchronous
48. In order to display a full-color graphic image on a 256-color monitor - computers simulate the colors it cannot display by way of dithering - which is combining pixels from a 256-color palette into patterns that approximate other colors. At a distanc
Key word
Cell
Dithering
Assessment Rubric
49. Use of online systems to access personal data in order to accomplish identity theft and do other malicious acts
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)
Chat Room
joystick
Hacking
50. Software designed to help teach information and/or skills related to a topic; also known as instructional software or courseware - computer-based instruction (CBI) - computer-based learning (CBL) - computer-assisted learning (CAL) - or generic terms
Lighting
Label
Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI)
Intrinsic motivation