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Technology Applications: General Concepts 1
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1. An animation key frame is a single still image defined throughout an animated sequence that occurs at a pivotal point in that sequence.
Interface
Crowdsourcing
Animation key frame
Instructional designer
2. Software programs designed to perform a specific function for the user - such as processing text - performing calculations - and presenting content lessons.
Applications
Computer Gradebook
Classroom Observation
CPU
3. Designates a type of learning of English that occurs after a student achieves some level of proficiency in another - native language; more commonly-used term is now English Language Learning or ELL
learning communities
English as a Second Language (ESL)
Blog
Audio Teleconferencing
4. An image format that allows transfer of artwork between any software packages that use PostScript printing files; a vector graphics file format.
imagemap
Clip Art
JPEG (also JPG)
EPS (Encapsulated PostScript)
5. Comprehension exercises with certain words removed to require students to fill in the blanks
Computer-Assisted Design (CAD)
Macro
Cloze Exercises
Declarative Information
6. Systems that allow individuals to view and examine the world through multiple layering of geographic data within a spatial environment; use of technology for visualization - analysis - and measurement of features and phenomena
Geospatial Technologies
Copyright
Cognitive Load
intranet
7. The use of the computer in the delivery of instruction.
Computer-Based Instruction (CBI)
meta-analysis
Accommodation
Instructional activity
8. An instructional plan for an individual student (usually one with special needs) that describes the student's current level of proficiency and also establishes short- and long-term goals for future focus. An IEP is typically developed through a confe
Classical Conditioning
Individualized education program (IEP)
Discussion
Modem
9. 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
FM Amplification System
Foreign Language Dictionaries
Case Study
Motivation activity
10. Software tools used to enhance and format photos that are then imported into desktop publishing systems or webpage products
Avatar
Image Editing Programs
Dithering
Intelligent tutoring system
11. A computer system set up to allow notices to be posted and viewed by anyone who has access to the network
Firewall
Bulletin Board (BB)
Lossy compression
laptop computer
12. Media formats that allow or require some level of physical activity from the user - which in some way alters the sequence of presentation.
Cognitive Overload
Interactive media
Body Composition Analyzer
Behavior
13. A set of related principles explaining changes in human performance or performance potential in terms of the causes of those changes.
Home Page
Learning Theory
learner-centered instruction
Firewall
14. 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
Instructional technology
Display Boards
Flowcharting
ADDIE model
15. 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
Blu-Ray Disc
Geocaching
inert knowledge
Graphic
16. The legal rights to an original work produced in any tangible medium of expression - including written works - works of art - music - photographs - and computer software.
microcomputer
Geospatial Technologies
Computer System
Copyright
17. 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 Theory
Hits
Assistive Technology
Grammar Checker
18. 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
Beta version
Keyboard
Generative Processing
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)
19. Channels of communication that carry messages with an instructional purpose; the different ways and means by which information can be delivered to or experienced by a learner.
Harmony
Formula
Educational Media
Mass storage
20. The process of translating information into some meaningful form that can be remembered.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Encoding
Audio Teleconferencing
Cybercheating
21. Email additions; may be documents - graphics - or software.
Blood Pressure Devices
Attachments
Evaluation Activity
Instructional design
22. A synchronous form of Internet communication in which individuals type messages to one another
Icon
Chat
Instructional design
Domain Name
23. A type of printer that forms letters on the page by shooting tiny electrically charged droplets of ink.
Inkjet printer
Byte
Compact Disc (CD)
music sequencer
24. Software tools that create documents and web pages with 'fillable' forms
CMYK graphics
Crowdsourcing
Forms Makers
Handicap
25. Small - multi-purpose devices such as cellphones - e-books - and 'smart' pens that make it easy to view - communicate - and share information - regardless of location
Handheld Technologies
Interactive media
Frame
Dithering
26. Combines detailed information about a subject area and common student mistakes with a model of student performance to diagnose a given student's level of understanding. Also provides instruction designed to meet that student's individual needs. Somet
Intrinsic motivation
Database filters and queries
English Language Learners (ELL)
Intelligent tutoring system
27. Motivation in which the act itself is the reward.
Attention
Database Management System (DBMS)
Intrinsic motivation
Beta version
28. 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
Microprocessor
Google Docs
Extraneous Processing
e-books (ebooks)
29. The collection of all related records in a database.
FAQ
Cursor
instant messaging (IM)
Datafile
30. A worldwide radio-navigation system made possible by a bank of orbiting satellites and their ground stations to pinpoint exact geographic locations on earth; a device that cross-references a GPS signal with mapping software and shows the location to
Laser printer
Library/media specialist
Animation - path
Global Positioning System (GPS)
31. Alpha testing is the early testing phase of the project. The full functionality of the alpha version of the software program may not yet be implemented. This early review allows the client to evaluate the project.
Graphic
Computer-Assisted Design (CAD)
Alpha testing
Computer Conferencing
32. A field of study focusing on the design of technology systems that align with human characteristics - needs - and capabilities.
Ergonomics
Cooperative Learning
MP3
Disability
33. 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.
Blu-Ray Disc
Grammar Checker
Flowcharting
Blood Pressure Devices
34. An assessment instrument consisting of a series of statements with which students indicate their degree of agreement or disagreement; created by psychologist Rensis Likert
Instructional effectiveness
Intelligence
Interlacing
Likert scale
35. Proposed by learning theorist Albert Bandura as learning that occurs through actions - rather than by observation
Ergonomics
Enactive Learning
Likert scale
Accelerometer
36. In a full immersion virtual reality (VR) system - a headset that provides the sensory channel through which the wearer 'sees' a computer-generated environment
Head-Mounted Display (HMD)
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
Electronic Mail (email)
Blog
37. The interest - or value - that instructional materials or activities have for the learner.
Instructional appeal
Motivation activity
Highlighting
inquiry-based learning
38. Television-like display screen that uses a cathode ray tube.
Beta version
Heuristic
Educational Technology
CRT
39. The adaptive use of previously acquired knowledge to analyze and understand new situations.
e-books (ebooks)
Intelligent tutoring system
Evaluation
Intelligence
40. A type of outsourcing in which many people are asked to give their input online to solve a problem that has proven resistant to efforts of single individuals or organizations
imagemap
Avatar Spaces
Crowdsourcing
Attachments
41. The manner in which individuals identify themselves based on their (or their ancestors') country of origin.
Key word
Frame
Harmony
Ethnicity
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
Electronic Mail (email)
Instructional designer
Intelligence
Local-area network (LAN)
43. The selection and arrangement of information - activities - methods - and media to help students meet predetermined learning goals.
Cyberbullying
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Instruction
Backbone
44. The setting or physical surroundings in which learning takes place - including the classroom - science or computer laboratory - gymnasium - playground - and so on.
Implementation
Electronic Whiteboard
Learning environment
Analogy
45. 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
Logo
Drop cap
ARPAnet
Evaluation Activity
46. A compression standard that produces compressed - high-quality audio files. To create an MP3 file - you need a program that copies a song from a CD or download from the Internet to your hard drive - and an encoder to convert the file to the MP3 forma
MP3
Conditional Information
Body Composition Analyzer
Icon
47. A network created in 1969 by the U.S. government-funded Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to enable communications among important defense sites in the event of a worldwide catastrophe such as a nuclear attack; later became the Internet
ARPAnet
Motor skills
Microprocessor
Musical Educators National Conference (MENC)
48. Hardware such as a keyboard - mouse - or joystick through which the user sends instructions to the computer.
ARPAnet
Laser printer
Input device
Domain Name
49. 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
High-Level Language
Absolute address or absolute positioning
Monitor
Musical Educators National Conference (MENC)
50. A small text file transferred to a web browser through an Internet server for the purpose of tracking the Internet usage habits of the person using the browser
Conditions
microcomputer
Cookie
Calculator-Based Lab (CBL)