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Technology Applications: General Concepts 1

Subjects : it-skills, literacy
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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.






2. The selection and arrangement of information - activities - methods - and media to help students meet predetermined learning goals.






3. A video or computer display device. The most common output device for personal computers.






4. A question typically used at the beginning of a lesson to direct students' attention to particularly important aspects of the new information.






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






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






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






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






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.






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






11. Software designed to maintain and calculate student grades






12. One of the first browser programs designed to allow Internet resources to be displayed graphically rather than just in text






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






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






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






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






17. A form of evaluation that involves watching students as they work through some part(s) of the lesson.






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






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)






20. The practice of collecting data from all the information available and searching it to see relationships among the data elements






21. The process of translating information into some meaningful form that can be remembered.






22. A highlighted position indicator used on the computer screen.






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






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.






25. A unique vocal distortion technique made possible with vocal-editing software






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






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






28. The adaptive use of previously acquired knowledge to analyze and understand new situations.






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






30. Use of online systems to access personal data in order to accomplish identity theft and do other malicious acts






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






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






33. One of several digital formats for video that are able to be used with video editing software






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






35. The specific items used in a lesson and delivered through various media formats - such as video - audio - print - and so on.






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






37. A type of instructional activity designed to help students understand - remember - and apply new information.






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






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






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






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






42. A synchronous form of Internet communication in which individuals type messages to one another






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.






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






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






46. A rule of thumb or flexible guideline that can be adapted to fit each instructional situation.






47. Media formats that allow or require some level of physical activity from the user - which in some way alters the sequence of presentation.






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






49. Liquid crystal display screen - commonly used in computers and also in conjunction with display panels and projectors as large-group display devices.






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







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