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Technology Applications: General Concepts 1
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1. Combinations of type characters that resemble human faces when turned sideways. Used to indicate emotion or intent on e-mail or in chat rooms.
Cognitive Overload
Data Loggers
Emoticons
Hard Copy
2. The selection and arrangement of information - activities - methods - and media to help students meet predetermined learning goals.
Cloud Computing
Blu-Ray Disc
Instruction
instructional software
3. A video or computer display device. The most common output device for personal computers.
Auto-correct
Fair Use Guidelines
Demonstration
Monitor
4. A question typically used at the beginning of a lesson to direct students' attention to particularly important aspects of the new information.
ActionScript
Focusing Question
Contingencies Of Reinforcement
Attention
5. The process of taking a series of individual pictures -- called frames -- and stringing them together in a timed sequence to give the appearance of continuous motion. Animations are motion files - either in 2-D animation or 3-D animation. On the Web
Animation
Image Formats
ADDIE model
Animation - path
6. Flaming messages are messages which express overly strong feelings. Spam is the term for e-mail junk mail - which should not be for¬warded. Chain letters are letters that have been forwarded from several previous e-mail readers. According to netiquet
Compression and extraction tools
Mnemonic
Flaming - spam - and chain letter
Computer-Based Instruction (CBI)
7. 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
Frame
Absolute address or absolute positioning
Electronic Publishing
Animation
8. System in which a camera or sensor reads body movements and communicates them to a computer - which processes the gestures as commands and uses them to control devices or displays
CLI
Gesture-Recognition System
Electronic Portfolio (e-portfolio)
Designing Instruction
9. 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.
learning hierarchies
Charting/Graphing Tool
Listserv
Assistive Technology
10. A set of related principles explaining changes in human performance or performance potential in terms of the causes of those changes.
Lighting
Learning Theory
Intelligence
Global Positioning System (GPS)
11. Software designed to maintain and calculate student grades
Internal memory
Electronic Gradebook
Digital Literacy
Filtering Software
12. One of the first browser programs designed to allow Internet resources to be displayed graphically rather than just in text
Criteria
Ethnicity
Mosaic
Logo
13. 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
Constructivist Learning
Google Docs
link
Gigabyte
14. The systematic process of translating principles of learning and instruction into plans for instructional materials and activities.
Instructional design
Model
Haptic Interface
Computer-Based Instruction (CBI)
15. Sequences of frames shown in a linear way with presentation software (e.g. - PowerPoint)
Electronic Slide Shows
Contingencies Of Reinforcement
Inclusion
Internal memory
16. Term coined in 1984 by the president of the Aldus Corporation to refer to the activity of using software to produce documents that gives users a high degree of control over the composition and layout of material on a printed page - including both tex
Desktop Publishing (DTP)
music synthesizer
Applications
Instructional game
17. A form of evaluation that involves watching students as they work through some part(s) of the lesson.
Direct Observation
Hands-On/Minds-On Science
Imagery
Geospatial Technologies
18. 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
Hypermedia
mastery learning
Discussion
Groupware
19. Pavlovian view of learning as involuntary physical responses to outside stimuli (e.g. - dogs salivate automatically at the sight of a dog food can)
Classical Conditioning
Local-area network (LAN)
Computer
Cybercheating
20. The practice of collecting data from all the information available and searching it to see relationships among the data elements
Constructivism
Data Mining
Classroom Observation
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
21. The process of translating information into some meaningful form that can be remembered.
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Microprocessor
Encoding
Contingencies Of Reinforcement
22. A highlighted position indicator used on the computer screen.
microcomputer
Cursor
Intelligent tutoring system
Geospatial Technologies
23. 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
Image Formats
Antecedent
JPEG (also JPG)
Bookmark
24. The central processing unit - or brain - of the computer - which controls the functions of the rest of the system and performs all numeric calculations.
Favorites File
CPU
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Digitizer
25. A unique vocal distortion technique made possible with vocal-editing software
Auto-tuning
imagemap
Equilibration
Hard Disk
26. A type of printer that forms letters on the page by shooting tiny electrically charged droplets of ink.
Learning environment
Audio Teleconferencing
Inkjet printer
Circular reference
27. An electronic go-between by which the computer communicates with a peripheral device.
Interface
Monitor
interactive whiteboard
Instructional plan
28. The adaptive use of previously acquired knowledge to analyze and understand new situations.
Discovery Learning
Automaticity
instant messaging (IM)
Intelligence
29. 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
Criteria
Integrated learning system (IIS)
Assessment
Hypertext
30. Use of online systems to access personal data in order to accomplish identity theft and do other malicious acts
Bitmap and vector graphics
Hacking
Designing Instruction
Assessment
31. Receiving information over a network from another computer; to bring information (e.g. - text files -images) to a computer from the Internet or other network or from a computer to a disc
Display Boards
ASP.NET
Logo
Downloading
32. Classroom surfaces used for writing and displaying information - including chalkboards - multipurpose boards - bulletin boards - magnetic boards - and flip charts.
Display Boards
Favorites File
Mnemonic
Distractors
33. One of several digital formats for video that are able to be used with video editing software
instant messaging (IM)
Audio Video Interleave (AVI) Format
information and communication technology (ICT)
Copyright
34. 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
Cookie
Haptic Interface
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Datafile
35. The specific items used in a lesson and delivered through various media formats - such as video - audio - print - and so on.
logic bomb
HTML 5
Interlacing
Instructional materials
36. The belief system that holds that humans construct all knowledge in their minds by participating in certain experiences; knowledge is the result of constructing both mechanisms for learning and one's own unique version of the knowledge - colored by b
Declarative Information
Constructivism
Generative Processing
Bit
37. A type of instructional activity designed to help students understand - remember - and apply new information.
Keyboard
Foreign Language (FL)
Information activity
Absolute address or absolute positioning
38. 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
Harmony
Instructional game
Graphic Document Makers
Displayed Visuals
39. First released in 2002 - a scripting language that must be installed on a server to be used in web development; a scripting language that generates HTML source code to create dynamic web pages
ActionScript
Cycle Of Continuous Improvement
Instructional effectiveness
ASP.NET
40. 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
music synthesizer
learner-centered instruction
Instructional designer
Learning in context
41. The most common input device; resembles the key layout of a typewriter.
Graphing Calculator
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)
Keyboard
Inkjet printer
42. A synchronous form of Internet communication in which individuals type messages to one another
English as a Second Language (ESL)
Chat
Lighting
Computer-Based Instruction (CBI)
43. Input/output devices that provide for storage and retrieval of programs and other types of data that must be stored over a long period of time. Also referred to as external or auxiliary memory.
Advance Organizer
Inkjet printer
Mass storage
Input device
44. Antidote utilities to detect - eliminate and protect from viruses - worms and Trojans. It typically contains an engine - a resident virus shield - virus databases or DAT files - a task scheduler - an e-mail scanner - and an update manager. It guards
App
Library/media specialist
Antivirus software
Classical Conditioning
45. Also called a mail server - this is the computer or software that operates an e-mail discussion list on the Internet. Interested individuals subscribe to the list and subsequently receive all e-mail that is sent to the listserv; on the Internet - a p
Listserv
microcomputer-based lab (MBL)
Iris
Impairment
46. A rule of thumb or flexible guideline that can be adapted to fit each instructional situation.
Hybrid Learning
Heuristic
Internal memory
Graphic Document Makers
47. Media formats that allow or require some level of physical activity from the user - which in some way alters the sequence of presentation.
Interactive media
Compact Disc (CD)
Library/media specialist
Local-area network (LAN)
48. A collection of information systematized by computer software to allow storage and easy retrieval through keyword searching; the program designed to accomplish these tasks
Database
learning hierarchies
Avatar Spaces
information visualization
49. Liquid crystal display screen - commonly used in computers and also in conjunction with display panels and projectors as large-group display devices.
Instructional method
LCD screen
Clip Art
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
50. Type of virtual reality (VR) system in which i a user places a headset (e.g. - goggles or a helmet) over the eyes to provide a channel through which the wearer 'sees' (i.e. - is immersed in) a computer-generated environment
Full Immersion Systems
Freeware
Case Study
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