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Technology Applications: General Concepts 1
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1. Use of the computer to orchestrate text - images - audio - and video to support a storytelling narrative with multimedia.
Listserv
Digital Storytelling
Head-Mounted Display (HMD)
Electronic Gradebook
2. A device that assists with analyzing and monitoring physical fitness levels by counting calories
Accelerometer
Input/Output Device
Motivation activity
Mailing list
3. In desktop publishing - the first letter of a paragraph that is enlarged to 'drop' down two or more line. Drop caps are often seen at the beginning of newsletter article - where the top of the first letter of the first word lines up with the top of t
Drop cap
Cooperative Learning
Electronic Slide Shows
Memory
4. 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.
Alpha testing
Electronic reference software
Assistive Technology
Avatar Spaces
5. Activity when students submit their written or artistic products to a website
Hardware
Encoding
Electronic Publishing
Bulletin Board (BB)
6. A type of information that includes facts - concepts - principles - and the relationships among them.
Declarative Information
Digital Storytelling
Impairment
Event Driven
7. Software designed for groups of students or teachers alike. The computer is viewed by a cooperative group of students or can be projected to the entire class to stimulate discussions and debates.
Groupware
language translators (machine translation)
Instructional efficiency
Event Driven
8. An abnormality or loss of function in a physical - anatomical - or psychological structure; may be congenital (present at birth) or acquired through accident or disease
Attitudes
Impairment
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Algorithm
9. The use of graphical symbols instead of text commands to control common computer functions such as copying programs and disks; a GUI is where the user clicks on a visual screen that has icons - windows and menus - by using a pointing device - such as
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Bitmap and vector graphics
Compression and extraction tools
Directed Instruction
10. Term for the distribution of applications - processing power - and storage across many computers accessible via the Internet.
Bulletin Board (BB)
Cloud Computing
DVD
Cookie
11. Combinations of type characters that resemble human faces when turned sideways. Used to indicate emotion or intent on e-mail or in chat rooms.
Java applets
microcomputer
Grammar Checker
Emoticons
12. Software tools that simplify the activity of making highly graphic materials such as awards certificates and greeting cards by offering sets of clip art and pre-designed templates to which people add their own content
Augmented Reality
Highlighting
Graphic Document Makers
App
13. 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
Database filters and queries
inquiry-based learning
Circular reference
Content expert
14. 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
Interlacing
Animation key frame
Directed Instruction
Domain
15. Inhibited functioning created by excessive demands being placed on memory and/or other cognitive processes.
Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
Likert scale
Instructional effectiveness
Cognitive Overload
16. Each individual category of information recorded in a database; the smallest unit of information in a database
Attachments
Field
Cooperative Learning
Distance Education
17. 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
App
Files
Heart Rate Monitor
Dithering
18. 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
Internal memory
link
interactive whiteboard activity software
Assistive Technology
19. 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
HTML 5
learning communities
Classical Conditioning
Assistive Technology
20. The use of the computer in the management of instruction - including applications such as student record keeping - performance assessment - and monitoring students' progress.
mobile device
Computer-Managed Instruction
Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) format
music sequencer
21. Classroom surfaces used for writing and displaying information - including chalkboards - multipurpose boards - bulletin boards - magnetic boards - and flip charts.
Geospatial Technologies
Clip Art
Constructivism
Display Boards
22. The process of determining which digital tools and which methods for implementing them are the most appropriate responses to given educational needs and problems
Harmony
integrating educational technology
Local-area network (LAN)
Bit
23. 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
Frame
Hardware
Interface
Avatar Spaces
24. A level of skill that allows a person to respond immediately (i.e. - automatically) with the correct answer to a problem
Font
Logo
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Automaticity
25. 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.
Learning
Chat Room
Formative Evaluation
DVD
26. A set of guidelines used to reliably appraise or judge products or performances.
Bandwidth
Assessment Rubric
Content expert
Digital Storytelling
27. 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
Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) format
Calculator-Based Lab (CBL)
Consequence
Internet
28. A device that includes a display screen connected to a computer and digital projector; allows information projected on the screen to be manipulated with special pens or one's hands and also allows drawings or notes from a given session to be saved an
interactive whiteboard
Animation - path
interactive or dynamic geometry software
Java
29. Online environments in which users can interact through their graphic representations (i.e. - avatars)
Avatar Spaces
Chat Room
ASP.NET
Artificial intelligence (AI)
30. An online activity in which students look at a database of caches listed at a geocaching website (e.g. - http://www.geocaching.com) - decide on a cache to hunt for - use GPSs to help them locate it - and share their experiences with others involved i
MP3
Internet
Geocaching
Copyright
31. Small - stand-alone - portable personal computer system
Motivation
Assessment
laptop computer
Cropping
32. 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
Handicap
mastery learning
MUD
Classroom Observation
33. Previously created graphics designed to be added to word processing or desktop publishing documents or to computer-based instruction.
Clip Art
Electronic Gradebook
CD-ROM (Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory)
Library/media specialist
34. Software that is given away free of charge - but whose author still retains all rights.
Instructional designer
Freeware
Likert scale
interactive or dynamic geometry software
35. A collection of eight bits - equivalent to one alphanumeric character.
Avatar Spaces
Input/Output Device
Mosaic
Byte
36. According to learning theorist Robert Gagné - a sequenced set of building block skills a student must learn in order to learn a higher-order skill
Ethnicity
Computer Platforms
Electronic Whiteboard
learning hierarchies
37. Stories that can be read from a computer screen - on mobile devices - or as print books with interactive buttons; also known as interactive storybooks
Beta version
Bitmap and vector graphics
Electronic Storybooks
Blended Intercultural Collaborations
38. A revision of the HTML standard that provides many of the features of a Flash environment without using Flash
Extraneous Processing
Learning in context
Javascript
HTML 5
39. 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
Modem
Encoding
Computer
Copyright
40. On the Internet - a way of transferring files from one computer to another using common settings and transmission procedures; also - to transfer files; computer users can use a File Transport Protocol (or FTP) client to transfer files to and from com
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Graphing Calculator
Keyboard
English Language Learners (ELL)
41. 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
inert knowledge
JPEG (also JPG)
Listserv
Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) format
42. 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
IEP Generator
Event Driven
Adventure Learning (AL)
Instructional designer
43. Email additions; may be documents - graphics - or software.
Attachments
instant messaging (IM)
Favorites File
Bitmap and vector graphics
44. Television-like display screen that uses a cathode ray tube.
Byte
Inkjet printer
CRT
Mosaic
45. A collection of a person's work products over time - arranged so that he or she and others can see how skills have developed and progressed - and presented in an electronic form such as a website or multimedia product; websites created by students to
Electronic Portfolio (e-portfolio)
Instructional effectiveness
Gesture-Recognition System
Contingencies Of Reinforcement
46. Software programs designed to perform a specific function for the user - such as processing text - performing calculations - and presenting content lessons.
Behavior
Focusing Question
Instructional plan
Applications
47. A type of learning that refers to the ability to recall specific information.
Computer Conferencing
link
Megabyte
Knowledge
48. A device that assists with analyzing and monitoring physical fitness levels by determining the percent of body fat
Body Composition Analyzer
multiple intelligences theory
mobile device
Crowdsourcing
49. One of several digital formats for video that are able to be used with video editing software
Animation
interactive whiteboard activity software
Lossy compression
Audio Video Interleave (AVI) Format
50. 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
Forms Makers
Full Immersion Systems
Integrated learning system (IIS)
Interactive media