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Technology Applications: General Concepts 1

Subjects : it-skills, literacy
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1. 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






2. An image format that allows transfer of artwork between any software packages that use PostScript printing files; a vector graphics file format.






3. 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






4. In education - academic dishonesty in which someone uses another's work obtained from the Internet as his/her own - also known as online cheating






5. Abbreviation for application - software that normally has an extension of .app and refers to any Internet application specifically designed to run on mobile devices such as smartphones






6. An outline - preview - or other such pre-instructional cue used to promote retention of content to be learned.






7. A major category of locations on the Internet. Major domains include com (company) - edu (educational institution) - gov (government) - net (network) - and org (organization).






8. 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






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






10. 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






11. 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.






12. The incorrect or less appropriate alternative answers for a given multiple-choice question. Also called foils.






13. The process of translating principles of learning and instruction into plans for instructional materials and activities.






14. Customized keyboards created for users with special needs (e.g. - enlarging the keys to provide more space for the student to press a key; removing keys that are not relevant for a given software; programming multi-step functions like save - print -






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






16. Coined by a Boeing researcher in 1990 - it refers to a computer-generated environment in which a real-life scene is overlaid with information that enhances our understanding and uses of it






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






18. Software that uses e-mail to deliver topic specific information to a targeted group of respondents.






19. Resource for students with hearing impairments in which the teacher wears a wireless microphone and students with auditory processing learning disabilities wear receivers that amplify the teacher's voice and serve to focus attention






20. 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






21. 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






22. 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.






23. Electronically transmitted private messages that can be sent from individuals to other individuals or groups.






24. A type of learning that refers to the ability to perform complex physical actions in a smooth - coordinated manner.






25. A portion of the instructional objective that indicates under what circumstances students are expected to perform.






26. A computer database program that can store and manipulate students' grades.






27. Classroom surfaces used for writing and displaying information - including chalkboards - multipurpose boards - bulletin boards - magnetic boards - and flip charts.






28. A camera that stores pictures in computer compatible digital format rather than on film.






29. An activity in which students with disabilities participate in one or more selected classes in general education






30. Software that enables the user to enter - edit - store - retrieve - sort - and search through computer databases.






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






32. Software tools that create documents and web pages with 'fillable' forms






33. 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






34. Device consisting of a transmitter - which senses the heartbeat from the heart's electrical impulses - and a wristwatch receiver - which receives and records each beat through radio transmission from the transmitter






35. The preliminary or main web page of a particular website.






36. Video games that provide physical activity or exercise through interactive play






37. 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






38. An electronic go-between by which the computer communicates with a peripheral device.






39. The most common input device; resembles the key layout of a typewriter.






40. 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






41. 'Image map' allows graphics to respond to mouse clicks to lead to more than one place from a single graphic. Clickable maps can be based on graphical maps such as floor plans - road maps - regional maps - and the like. The imagemapper - or simple ima






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






43. Texts in digital form that may be read on a computer or e-book readers; becoming a popular alternative to printed texts






44. General category of portable computer devices such as smart phones and tablets (e.g. - iPads)






45. A set of related principles explaining changes in human performance or performance potential in terms of the causes of those changes.






46. 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






47. The set of high-speed data lines connecting the major networks that make up the Internet.






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






49. An instructional software function that presents items for students to work on (usually one at a time) and gives feedback on correctness; a series of practice exercises designed to increase fluency in a new skill or to refresh an existing one. Use of






50. A compact disc format for storing motion video and computer data. Sometimes called digital video disc or digital versatile disc; a standard single-layer - single-sided DVD can store 4.7GB of data. These high-capacity optical discs can store large fil







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