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Technology Applications: General Concepts 1
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1. A set of instructions that tells the computer how to do something.
Computer
Electronic Storybooks
Computer Program
Hard Copy
2. A computer system set up to allow notices to be posted and viewed by anyone who has access to the network
Model
Microprocessor
Bulletin Board (BB)
Input/Output Device
3. Software tools that automatically draw and print desired charts or graphs from data entered by users
Chat
Compact Disc (CD)
Mailing list
Charting/Graphing Tool
4. A portion of the instructional objective that indicates under what circumstances students are expected to perform.
Computer-Managed Instruction
Cybercheating
Conditions
Byte
5. Short for metamorphosing; refers to an animation technique in which one image gradually turns into another; also known as tweening
Graphic Document Makers
Hash Tag
imagemap
morphing
6. 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
Compact Disc (CD)
Closed Circuit Television (CCTV)
English Language Learners (ELL)
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)
7. A common term in science education reform - synonymous with immersing students in authentic learning experiences
Discussion
File Server
Hands-On/Minds-On Science
Library/media specialist
8. Pictures of people that focus on just the head or from mid-chest and up are called mug shots. Mug shots are often used in newsletters - newspapers - school yearbooks and company directories. Mug shots of feature columnists may appear next to their co
Mug shots
Hardware
Interlacing
Cropping
9. Software tools that create documents and web pages with 'fillable' forms
Imagery
Forms Makers
interactive whiteboard activity software
Interface
10. 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.
interactive whiteboard activity software
Halftone
Admission Review and Dismissal (ARD)
Adventure Learning (AL)
11. In cognitive load theory - mental activity uses cognitive capacity but does not help the learner learn
logic bomb
Cycle Of Continuous Improvement
Extraneous Processing
Impairment
12. The process of translating information into some meaningful form that can be remembered.
Local-area network (LAN)
Encoding
Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
Charting/Graphing Tool
13. Approximately a million bytes - or 1000 kilobytes.
Megabyte
Attitudes
Instruction
Chat Room
14. A type of learning that refers to the ability to recall specific information.
Knowledge
App
Lighting
Flaming - spam - and chain letter
15. Also called a personal computer - a stand-alone - desktop - or laptop computer that uses a microprocessor and is designed for use by an individual
FM Amplification System
microcomputer
Essential Processing
Aptitude-Treatment Interaction (ATI)
16. In a browser - a set of Internet locations or URLs organized so that a user can return to them quickly
Favorites File
Datafile
Distance Education
Computer-Managed Instruction
17. A form of assessment that indicates whether or not students have learned what they must know before progressing to the next portion of the instruction.
Internal memory
Formative Evaluation
Auto-correct
Frame
18. Online environments in which users can interact through their graphic representations (i.e. - avatars)
Global Positioning System (GPS)
Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT)
Avatar Spaces
Bitmap and vector graphics
19. Teaching/learning model based on cognitive learning theory; holds that learners should generate their own knowledge through experience-based activities rather than being taught it by teachers
Flash
Input/Output Device
Bookmark
Constructivist Learning
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.
CRT
Educational Technology
Haptic Interface
Instructional design
21. Ways of storing digitized images for use in webpages and multimedia products - e.g. - GIF - JPEG
Drill And Practice
Image Formats
Javascript
Computer Algebra System (CAS)
22. Research finding that formats that are beneficial for one group have a negative impact on a group with the opposite characteristic
Avatar
Contingencies Of Reinforcement
Library/media specialist
Aptitude-Treatment Interaction (ATI)
23. 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
Key word
Alpha testing
Electronic Slide Shows
Integrated learning system (IIS)
24. According to learning theorist B. E Skinner - experiences (positive reinforcement - negative reinforcement - punishment) that shape desired behavioral responses
CD-ROM (Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory)
Contingencies Of Reinforcement
inert knowledge
multiple intelligences theory
25. A target language - or language of study - when the language being studied is spoken mainly in other countries
Bitmapped (BMP) Graphics
Foreign Language (FL)
Feedback
Input/Output Device
26. Devices that record data over time with sensors
Gesture-Recognition System
Iris
Data Loggers
Audio Video Interleave (AVI) Format
27. 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
Integrated learning system (IIS)
Consequence
Designing Instruction
28. 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
Conditions
Hypermedia
Internet
Compression and extraction tools
29. Pavlovian view of learning as involuntary physical responses to outside stimuli (e.g. - dogs salivate automatically at the sight of a dog food can)
Downloading
Classical Conditioning
Inkjet printer
Likert scale
30. A revision of the HTML standard that provides many of the features of a Flash environment without using Flash
Head-Mounted Display (HMD)
MUD
HTML 5
Field
31. Multiuser dungeon (or dimension or domain); a location on the Internet where several users at a time can interact with each other's avatars (graphic representations of each other); also known as a MUD Object Oriented or MOO
Motivation activity
App
Electronic reference software
MUD
32. Individuals who are learning English as their majority language for everyday uses - employment - and educational purposes. ELL also stands for English Language Learning
Cell
Hardware
mastery learning
English Language Learners (ELL)
33. A type of information that describes the potential usefulness of facts - concepts - and principles.
Conditional Information
Memory
Computer-Assisted Design (CAD)
Flaming - spam - and chain letter
34. An outline - preview - or other such pre-instructional cue used to promote retention of content to be learned.
Flaming - spam - and chain letter
mainstreaming
Advance Organizer
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)
35. A small pictorial or graphical representation of a computer hardware function or component - or a computer software program - commonly associated with a graphical user interface.
Assessment Rubric
Frame
Icon
Learning in context
36. 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
Datafile
Grammar Checker
Foreign Language Dictionaries
Database
37. The set of high-speed data lines connecting the major networks that make up the Internet.
FM Amplification System
Keyboard
Backbone
Adventure Learning (AL)
38. 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
ARPAnet
Electronic Portfolio (e-portfolio)
Intrinsic motivation
Blended Intercultural Collaborations
39. Piagetian view of how children change their views of the world by incorporating new experiences
Antecedent
multimedia
Instructional appeal
Accommodation
40. The central processing unit - or brain - of the computer - which controls the functions of the rest of the system and performs all numeric calculations.
JPEG (also JPG)
Favorites File
CPU
Formula
41. 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
Freeware
Domain
instant messaging (IM)
Iris
42. An event - object - or circumstance that prompts a behavior.
Antecedent
joystick
music editor
Instruction
43. A 4.72-inch-diameter disc on which a laser has digitally recorded information such as audio - video - or computer data.
Interactive multimedia
Compact Disc (CD)
Implementation
Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) format
44. 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
Bookmark
Musical Educators National Conference (MENC)
Heuristic
45. A teaching and learning model based on behavioral and cognitive theories; students receive information from teachers and do teacher-directed activities
Directed Instruction
Enactive Learning
Multimedia authoring programs
Desktop Publishing (DTP)
46. An internal state that leads people to choose to work toward certain goals and experiences. Defines what people will do rather than what they can do.
Motivation
Avatar Spaces
Downloading
Forms Makers
47. The products created by a database program; any collection of data stored in a computer or on a computer medium
Full Immersion Systems
Analogy
Distractors
Files
48. Either software or devices with software that help carry out complex numeric calculations involved in higher-level math problems (e.g. - Maple)
inquiry-based learning
Computer Algebra System (CAS)
Flowcharting
integrating educational technology
49. Calculator with probes or sensors connected to it to allow gathering of numerical data
Educational Technology
Harmony
Calculator-Based Lab (CBL)
Cursor
50. 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
Handheld Technologies
Modem
Hands-On/Minds-On Science
Electronic Publishing