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Technology Applications: General Concepts 1
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1. A type of learning that refers to feelings - beliefs - and values that lead individuals to make consistent choices when given the opportunity.
Attitudes
Generative Processing
Imagery
Likert scale
2. Music-making equipment controlled by a Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) device
Electronic Portfolio (e-portfolio)
music synthesizer
Content expert
Declarative Information
3. An instructional arrangement whereby students with disabilities receive instruction and services in a general education setting with regular education peers.
Inclusion
Instructional technology
Motor skills
Distance Education
4. Content experts are also called subject matter experts (or SMEs). A content expert's roles and responsibilities include: researching the content - helping with storyboard - and writing all of the text. For many multimedia projects in education - SME
FAQ
Content expert
Halftone
Key word
5. An instructional software function that presents items for students to work on (usually one at a time) and gives feedback on correctness; a series of practice exercises designed to increase fluency in a new skill or to refresh an existing one. Use of
Concept Map
Individualized education program (IEP)
Drill And Practice
Learning style
6. An online system of web course design and delivery tools; Desire-to-Learn and BlackBoard are examples
ASCII format
Course Management System (CMS)
Assessment Rubric
Avatar Spaces
7. 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.
Copyright
Groupware
inert knowledge
Calculator-Based Lab (CBL)
8. A collection of eight bits - equivalent to one alphanumeric character.
Domain Name
Learning environment
Hypertext
Byte
9. Refers to the attitudes - values - customs - and behavior patterns that characterize a social group.
Domain
EPS (Encapsulated PostScript)
Culture
Multimedia authoring programs
10. A computer language that contains instructions that resemble natural language and that does not require knowledge of the inner workings of the computer to use successfully.
Extraneous Processing
Audiographics
High-Level Language
Cognitive Load
11. Small - stand-alone - portable personal computer system
Assistive Technology
laptop computer
Distributed Education
Content expert
12. In cognitive load theory - the use of working memory that results in productive - engaged learning
Intelligent tutoring system
Generative Processing
File Server
Auto-tuning
13. A statement that likens something new to something familiar. Analogies are typically used either to make abstract information more concrete or to organize complex information.
Analogy
imagemap
Likert scale
Lossless and lossy compressions
14. 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
Hacking
Concept Map
Adventure Learning (AL)
Computer-Assisted Design (CAD)
15. The use of the computer in the delivery of instruction.
Culture
Graphic
Computer-Based Instruction (CBI)
Criteria
16. A school specialist who helps students and teachers to become effective users of ideas and information by providing access to materials - providing instruction - and working with teachers to design learning strategies to meet the needs of individual
Library/media specialist
Hacker
Enactive Learning
File Server
17. Video games that provide physical activity or exercise through interactive play
Declarative Information
Exergaming
Distractors
Global Positioning System (GPS)
18. A measurement appraisal process that is ongoing - developmentally appropriate - and dynamic; the process of gathering evidence of learning.
Domain
Filtering Software
Assessment
ADDIE model
19. According to learning theorist B. E Skinner - experiences (positive reinforcement - negative reinforcement - punishment) that shape desired behavioral responses
learning hierarchies
Contingencies Of Reinforcement
information literacy
ActionScript
20. Email additions; may be documents - graphics - or software.
Alternative Keyboard
Disability
Attachments
Learning
21. The application of technological processes and tools which can be used to solve problems of instruction and learning with an emphasis on applying the most current digital and information tools.
Antivirus software
Educational Technology
ASCII format
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
22. A portion of the instructional objective that indicates the standards that define acceptable performance.
Monitor
Criteria
Audiographics
Chat
23. Each individual category of information recorded in a database; the smallest unit of information in a database
Firewall
Chat Room
Advance Organizer
Field
24. The incorrect or less appropriate alternative answers for a given multiple-choice question. Also called foils.
Input/Output Device
Distractors
Conditions
English as a Second Language (ESL)
25. A system of information representation in which the information-text - graphics - animation - audio - and/or video is stored in interlinked nodes; software that allows information stored in various media or various parts of media to be connected (oft
Formative Evaluation
Foreign Language (FL)
mobile device
Hypermedia
26. An asynchronous communication medium in which two or more individuals exchange messages using personal computers connected via a network or telephone lines.
Computer Conferencing
Intrinsic motivation
Disequilibrium
Memory
27. An instructional method that involves showing how to do a task as well as describing why - when - and where it is done. Provides a real or lifelike example of the skill or procedure to be learned.
Musical Educators National Conference (MENC)
Demonstration
Inkjet printer
FM Amplification System
28. A video or computer display device. The most common output device for personal computers.
Demonstration
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Lossy compression
Monitor
29. 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
Evaluation Activity
ASP.NET
Auto-tuning
Admission Review and Dismissal (ARD)
30. 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
Mouse
Internal memory
microcomputer
Crowdsourcing
31. Pictures of people that focus on just the head or from mid-chest and up are called mug shots. Mug shots are often used in newsletters - newspapers - school yearbooks and company directories. Mug shots of feature columnists may appear next to their co
Impairment
CPU
Mug shots
Electronic Whiteboard
32. 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
Antivirus software
Data Loggers
File Server
Input device
33. A condition that arises when an individual is unable to fulfill a role due to an impairment or disability
Instructional designer
Handicap
CD-ROM (Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory)
Learning Theory
34. A revision of the HTML standard that provides many of the features of a Flash environment without using Flash
MUD
HTML 5
Likert scale
Hacking
35. The practice of collecting data from all the information available and searching it to see relationships among the data elements
Input device
Database filters and queries
Data Mining
Audio Video Interleave (AVI) Format
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
Hypertext
Digital Literacy
Head-Mounted Display (HMD)
Handicap
37. The use of audio teleconferencing accompanied by the transmission of still pictures and graphics via slow-scan video - fax - or an electronic graphics tablet.
Attitudes
logic bomb
CRT
Audiographics
38. 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.
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Grammar Checker
e-books (ebooks)
Image Capture
39. A target language - or language of study - when the language being studied is spoken mainly in other countries
Foreign Language (FL)
Clip Art
Learning Theory
Flash
40. High definition DVD format
Directed Instruction
Blu-Ray Disc
Cycle Of Continuous Improvement
Integrated learning system (IIS)
41. A type of computer virus that is set to 'go off' (i.e. - carry out its program) at a certain time
Label
logic bomb
MUD
Memory
42. The process of determining which digital tools and which methods for implementing them are the most appropriate responses to given educational needs and problems
mainstreaming
JPEG (also JPG)
Image Capture
integrating educational technology
43. Software that protects a school's or company's entire computer system from attempts by others to gain unauthorized access to it and also prevents access by users to certain sites; or set up to prevent someone from going to certain locations on the In
Computer-Managed Instruction
Hard Disk
Compact Disc (CD)
Firewall
44. 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
Gigabyte
Listserv
long-term memory (LTM)
Megabyte
45. A three-dimensional representation of a real object; it may be larger - smaller - or the same size as the object represented.
Closed Circuit Television (CCTV)
Model
Evaluation
ADDIE model
46. An image format used for drawn images - illustrations - clip art - or animations; It is universally acceptable on the Web. Images in the this format are restricted to 256 colors (best - actually 216 'web-safe' colors). The format is suited to images
Hacking
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
Harmony
mainstreaming
47. According to learning theorist Howard Gardner - nine different and relatively independent types of intelligence that may be fostered by differentiated instruction and assessment
Geocaching
multiple intelligences theory
FM Amplification System
Designing Instruction
48. The set of high-speed data lines connecting the major networks that make up the Internet.
Domain Name
Backbone
Body Composition Analyzer
Computer-Assisted Testing (CAT)
49. 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
Cell
Attitudes
English as a Second Language (ESL)
Database
50. Also referred to as a domain designator - a required part of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) on the Internet that indicates what kind of group owns the server; examples include '.edu -' '.com -' and '.org'
microcomputer
Audio Video Interleave (AVI) Format
Blended Intercultural Collaborations
Domain Name