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Technology Applications: General Concepts 1
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1. Email additions; may be documents - graphics - or software.
Gesture-Recognition System
Hypertext
Attachments
Graphing Calculator
2. According to information-processing learning theorists - one of the three kinds of memory or 'stores' the brain uses to process information - much like a computer; LTM can hold information indefinitely after it is linked to prior knowledge already in
Equilibration
Database filters and queries
English Language Learners (ELL)
long-term memory (LTM)
3. An assessment instrument consisting of a series of statements with which students indicate their degree of agreement or disagreement; created by psychologist Rensis Likert
Accelerometer
Admission Review and Dismissal (ARD)
Animation
Likert scale
4. A graphical representation of interrelated concepts that students can use as a learning aid or that teachers can use as an aid in content organization; tools designed to help people think through and explore ideas or topics by developing these visual
Instructional appeal
Concept Map
Bookmark
Formative Evaluation
5. Professional organization for music educators
Learning style
Musical Educators National Conference (MENC)
Calculator-Based Lab (CBL)
CD-ROM (Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory)
6. 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
Mouse
Google Docs
Computer System
Alternative Keyboard
7. The software capability to copy images from web pages or computer applications and store them on your own computer.
Image Capture
Interactive multimedia
Formative Evaluation
Datafile
8. 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
English as a Second Language (ESL)
Electronic Mail (email)
Lighting
Cyberbullying
9. 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
Laser printer
Byte
Handheld Technologies
Course Management System (CMS)
10. Originally - the ability to use computer devices and software to locate and use information; now refers to skills in using the information that technological devices carry - in addition to skills in using the devices themselves
Java
IEP Generator
Files
Digital Literacy
11. Program stored on individual computers or on the school or district network in order to prevent access to Internet sites with inappropriate materials
Discussion
Filtering Software
Chat
App
12. Approximately a billion bytes - or 1 -000 megabytes.
meta-analysis
Imagery
Gigabyte
Directed Instruction
13. According to learning theorist Jerome Bruner - a more effective way of children learning concepts by discovering them during their interaction with the environment; an instructional method that uses an inductive - or inquiry - method to encourage stu
Evaluation
integrating educational technology
Discovery Learning
Gigabyte
14. Software designed to maintain and calculate student grades
Behavior
Electronic Gradebook
MUD
Instructional appeal
15. Refers to the attitudes - values - customs - and behavior patterns that characterize a social group.
Instructional technology
Learning environment
Flowcharting
Culture
16. A collection of a person's work products over time - arranged so that he or she and others can see how skills have developed and progressed - and presented in an electronic form such as a website or multimedia product; websites created by students to
Electronic Portfolio (e-portfolio)
Crowdsourcing
App
Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI)
17. Sections programmed to display on a web page; the contents of each frame are actually different web pages displayed on one screen; the term refers to a single complete graphic image that is displayed chronologically with other graphic images. A singl
Design
Frame
Displayed Visuals
Geospatial Technologies
18. An image format that allows transfer of artwork between any software packages that use PostScript printing files; a vector graphics file format.
Display Boards
Instructional method
CD-ROM (Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory)
EPS (Encapsulated PostScript)
19. An electronic go-between by which the computer communicates with a peripheral device.
Instructional designer
Interface
CPU
Beta version
20. Storage inside the computer. The CPU in a personal computer retrieves and deposits information in the computer's internal memory. Also called main memory.
Beta version
Internal memory
Electronic Gradebook
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
21. 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
Constructivism
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
Listserv
Asynchronous
22. The central processing unit - or brain - of the computer - which controls the functions of the rest of the system and performs all numeric calculations.
Database Management System (DBMS)
Algorithm
CPU
Charting/Graphing Tool
23. 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
Intelligent tutoring system
Instructional technology
Computer Program
JPEG (also JPG)
24. Pages or items listed as results of an Internet or database search
Culture
Attachments
Instructional design
Hits
25. A blueprint for instructional lessons based on analyses of the learners - the context - and the task to be learned. Planning involves the process of deciding what methods of instruction are best for bringing about desired changes in student knowledge
Instructional plan
Model
Electronic Slide Shows
Emoticons
26. Multiuser dungeon (or dimension or domain); a location on the Internet where several users at a time can interact with each other's avatars (graphic representations of each other); also known as a MUD Object Oriented or MOO
Admission Review and Dismissal (ARD)
MUD
English as a Second Language (ESL)
Mosaic
27. Texts in digital form that may be read on a computer or e-book readers; becoming a popular alternative to printed texts
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
e-books (ebooks)
Instructional plan
Electronic Portfolio (e-portfolio)
28. One of the rights accorded to the owner of copyright is the right to reproduce or to authorize others to reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords. This right is subject to certain limitations found in sections 107 through 118 of the copyright law
Fair Use
JPEG (also JPG)
Handheld Technologies
Firewall
29. Research finding that formats that are beneficial for one group have a negative impact on a group with the opposite characteristic
Hits
Aptitude-Treatment Interaction (ATI)
Motivation activity
Automaticity
30. Can be either software that supports the on-screen creation of music scores with several parts or tracks - or a hardware component of a music synthesizer workstation
Crowdsourcing
Head-Mounted Display (HMD)
Handicap
music sequencer
31. An asynchronous communication medium in which two or more individuals exchange messages using personal computers connected via a network or telephone lines.
Internal memory
HTML 5
Computer Conferencing
Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
32. The products created by a database program; any collection of data stored in a computer or on a computer medium
Lossless and lossy compressions
Information activity
Haptic Interface
Files
33. A type of instructional activity that leads students to want to learn and to put in the effort required for learning.
Assessment Rubric
Motivation activity
music synthesizer
Foreign Language Dictionaries
34. 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.
Mnemonic
LCD screen
Audio Teleconferencing
Exergaming
35. 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
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Automaticity
Image Formats
Hacking
36. An instructional method that involves small heterogeneous groups of students working toward a common academic goal or task. Its use promotes positive interdependence - individual accountability - collaborative/social skills - and group processing ski
Distributed Education
Forms Makers
Cursor
Cooperative Learning
37. A teaching and learning model based on behavioral and cognitive theories; students receive information from teachers and do teacher-directed activities
Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT)
Directed Instruction
Instructional efficiency
Cookie
38. The process of selectively receiving information from the environment.
Full Immersion Systems
LCD screen
Downloading
Attention
39. A graphical means of illustrating the logical flow of a computer program.
Flowcharting
Intelligence
Cursor
Hash Tag
40. A rule of thumb or flexible guideline that can be adapted to fit each instructional situation.
Clip Art
Heuristic
Input device
Hybrid Learning
41. Bitmaps are graphics stored patterns of colored dots (pixels on the screen). Vector graphics are stored as mathematical descriptions of sets of lines - triangles - squares - circles - etc - with defined line widths - line colors and - for polygons -
DVD
Datafile
Bitmap and vector graphics
Input/Output Device
42. The use of audio teleconferencing accompanied by the transmission of still pictures and graphics via slow-scan video - fax - or an electronic graphics tablet.
Formative Evaluation
Electronic Mentor
Hard Copy
Audiographics
43. The preliminary or main web page of a particular website.
Home Page
Input/Output Device
Monitor
Audio Video Interleave (AVI) Format
44. Piagetian view of how children learn by fitting new experiences into their existing view of the world
Assimilation
information literacy
Lossless and lossy compressions
Distributed Education
45. An activity completed during a lesson to help students learn. There are five types of instructional activities: motivation - orientation - information - application - and evaluation activities.
Event Driven
Instructional activity
Cognitive Load
Instructional technology
46. Piagetian view of how children change their views of the world by incorporating new experiences
Freeware
Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI)
Accommodation
Intrinsic motivation
47. General category of portable computer devices such as smart phones and tablets (e.g. - iPads)
Gesture-Recognition System
mobile device
information literacy
Learning environment
48. 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
App
Digital Divide
Datafile
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
49. A file format for storing and sending video sequences on a network
Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) format
Cognitive Load
Ergonomics
Domain Name
50. One of several digital formats for video that are able to be used with video editing software
Graphing Calculator
MUD
Audio Video Interleave (AVI) Format
Electronic Mentor