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Technology Applications: General Concepts 1
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1. Software that is given away free of charge - but whose author still retains all rights.
Memory
Motivation
imagemap
Freeware
2. The adaptive use of previously acquired knowledge to analyze and understand new situations.
Event Driven
Bulletin Board (BB)
Internet
Intelligence
3. An object-oriented scripting language that - like Java - is used to create dynamic websites
Directed Instruction
Full Immersion Systems
Javascript
Listserv
4. A device that allows analog audio or video to be captured in a form that the computer can use.
Cookie
Audiographics
instructional software
Digitizer
5. 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.
Icon
Instructional effectiveness
Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI)
Evaluation
6. In Adobe Flash - an advanced authoring environment for creating content for the web - a mobile - or virtually any digitalplatform
Formative Evaluation
Frame
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
ActionScript
7. The term authoring suggests writing. Authoring programs are designed to help teachers and students produce courseware and programs. These authoring programs help the user develop computer programs in computer languages that can be otherwise quite dif
Instructional designer
Chat Room
Multimedia authoring programs
Hacker
8. 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
Beta version
Icon
ASCII format
9. The interest - or value - that instructional materials or activities have for the learner.
Event Driven
Animation - path
Integrated learning system (IIS)
Instructional appeal
10. A hybrid (online and in-person) distance education approach that provides students with opportunities to explore real-world issues through authentic learning experiences within collaborative learning environments
Fair Use
Local-area network (LAN)
Adventure Learning (AL)
Graphic
11. Can be defined as a pleasing arrangement of parts - whether it be music - poetry - or color. In visual experiences - harmony is something that is pleasing to the eye. It engages the viewer and creates an inner sense of order. There are three formulas
Attention
EPS (Encapsulated PostScript)
Harmony
Database Management System (DBMS)
12. A single block in a spreadsheet grid - formed by the intersection of a row and a column that may contain numerical values - words - or character data - and formulas or calculation commands.
Authoring Software
Cell
Head-Mounted Display (HMD)
Conditions
13. A form of evaluation that involves having a knowledgeable person come into the classroom to watch a lesson in process - to comment on how well the materials and activities work - and to make suggestions for improvements.
Computer-Assisted Testing (CAT)
Classroom Observation
Hands-On/Minds-On Science
Criteria
14. A device that assists with analyzing and monitoring physical fitness levels by counting calories
Accelerometer
English Language Learners (ELL)
MP3
integrated packages
15. Motivation in which the act itself is the reward.
information visualization
Digital Divide
Focusing Question
Intrinsic motivation
16. An animation key frame is a single still image defined throughout an animated sequence that occurs at a pivotal point in that sequence.
Computer Program
Animation key frame
Drop cap
Implementation
17. 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
Chat
Electronic Gradebook
Geocaching
link
18. Using technology to accommodate difficulties individuals have with performing specific tasks - e.g. - providing speech recognition software to those with physical disabilities that limit their use of a pencil or a keyboard
Desktop Publishing (DTP)
Hits
Image Capture
Compensation
19. Software products (e.g. - Microsoft Works and AppleWorks) that have several applications in a single package (e.g. - word processing - spreadsheet - presentation functions -database programs)
integrated packages
Memory
Computer System
Java applets
20. Software programs designed to perform a specific function for the user - such as processing text - performing calculations - and presenting content lessons.
Input/Output Device
Compression and extraction tools
Applications
Instructional appeal
21. A measurement appraisal process that is ongoing - developmentally appropriate - and dynamic; the process of gathering evidence of learning.
Assessment
Electronic Gradebook
Impairment
CD-ROM (Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory)
22. (short for Command Line Interface) the interface is where the user types a text command and the computer responds according to that command.
Evaluation Activity
Closed Circuit Television (CCTV)
LCD projector
CLI
23. A graphical means of illustrating the logical flow of a computer program.
Flowcharting
Adventure Learning (AL)
Beta version
FAQ
24. 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
meta-analysis
Displayed Visuals
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
long-term memory (LTM)
25. Within a computer - this is an area that stores instructions (programs) and information that can be readily accessed by the processor.
Halftone
Memory
Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT)
Icon
26. 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
Blu-Ray Disc
Handheld Technologies
Beta version
Logo
27. Use of the computer to orchestrate text - images - audio - and video to support a storytelling narrative with multimedia.
Digital Storytelling
Application Activity
Head-Mounted Display (HMD)
Computer-Assisted Testing (CAT)
28. An instructional approach that provides an appealing environment in which learners invest effort to follow prescribed rules in order to attain a challenging goal; designed to increase motivation by adding game rules to a learning activity
Cycle Of Continuous Improvement
Geospatial Technologies
Distributed Education
Instructional game
29. The setting or physical surroundings in which learning takes place - including the classroom - science or computer laboratory - gymnasium - playground - and so on.
MP3
Authoring Software
Learning environment
Motivation activity
30. A distance education technology that uses a speakerphone to extend a basic telephone call and permits instruction and interaction between individuals or groups at two or more locations.
Audio Teleconferencing
Computer-Based Instruction (CBI)
music synthesizer
MP3
31. A unique vocal distortion technique made possible with vocal-editing software
Auto-tuning
Audiographics
Learning style
Animation - path
32. The continuous evaluation of instruction before - during - and after implementation - which leads to continual revision and modification in order to increase student learning.
long-term memory (LTM)
Blog
Educational Technology
Cycle Of Continuous Improvement
33. Software that provides on-screen blank musical bars on which the user enters the musical key - time - and individual notes that constitute a piece of sheet music
Foreign Language (FL)
Learning Theory
music editor
Motivation
34. Category of visuals that are generally exhibited on display boards - (e.g. - multipurpose boards - bulletin boards) and are not projected.
MUD
Displayed Visuals
Instructional efficiency
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)
35. An image format that allows transfer of artwork between any software packages that use PostScript printing files; a vector graphics file format.
Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) format
microcomputer
EPS (Encapsulated PostScript)
Hybrid Learning
36. 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
language translators (machine translation)
Beta version
ASCII format
Display Boards
37. Pre-developed applications created with the Java programming language; make possible web page features such as animations and special effects - graphics and buttons - interactive displays -web data collection forms - and chatrooms
Java applets
Distractors
Integrated learning system (IIS)
Authoring Software
38. A communications service that allows users to create a private chat room which only members of a mutually agreed upon list may enter; the system alerts a user when someone from the IM list is online; IM also designates the act of instant messaging -
Event Driven
Electronic Mail (email)
Hard Copy
instant messaging (IM)
39. A first step in web development that involves planning what the website will look like.
Cursor
Design
Computer-Managed Instruction
Data Mining
40. The manner in which individuals identify themselves based on their (or their ancestors') country of origin.
Ethnicity
Disequilibrium
CD-ROM (Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory)
Electronic reference software
41. A type of instructional activity designed to determine how well students have mastered lesson objectives.
CLI
Mug shots
Clip Art
Evaluation Activity
42. A series of steps needed to solve a particular problem or perform a particular task; a methodical - logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem. Contrasts with the usually speedier -- but also more error-prone -- use of heu
joystick
Laser printer
music sequencer
Algorithm
43. 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
Cloud Computing
Declarative Information
Mosaic
Foreign Language Dictionaries
44. Television-like display screen that uses a cathode ray tube.
CRT
Computer Gradebook
Lossy compression
Domain
45. Approximately a billion bytes - or 1 -000 megabytes.
Browser
Gigabyte
Computer Gradebook
Assistive Technology
46. Previously created graphics designed to be added to word processing or desktop publishing documents or to computer-based instruction.
Clip Art
Flowcharting
Assistive Technology
Distance Education
47. Online sites that allow users to input sentences and paragraphs of text in one language and get a translation into another language
Algorithm
link
language translators (machine translation)
microcomputer
48. A type of learning that refers to the ability to perform complex physical actions in a smooth - coordinated manner.
Individualized education program (IEP)
inquiry-based learning
Electronic reference software
Motor skills
49. A committee composed of the parent - administrator - assessment personnel - regular education teacher - special education teacher - and other pertinent representatives who meet on a regular basis to make decisions in regard to admission - services -
Admission Review and Dismissal (ARD)
Knowledge
Computer-Assisted Testing (CAT)
Animation - path
50. 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
Internet
Instructional plan
Flowcharting
inert knowledge