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Technology Applications: General Concepts 1
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1. 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
Email Address
Image Formats
Instructional design
Intelligent tutoring system
2. A type of learning that refers to feelings - beliefs - and values that lead individuals to make consistent choices when given the opportunity.
Electronic Publishing
Attitudes
Focusing Question
Likert scale
3. 'Image map' allows graphics to respond to mouse clicks to lead to more than one place from a single graphic. Clickable maps can be based on graphical maps such as floor plans - road maps - regional maps - and the like. The imagemapper - or simple ima
Backbone
imagemap
Multimedia authoring programs
Memory
4. A collection of information systematized by computer software to allow storage and easy retrieval through keyword searching; the program designed to accomplish these tasks
Home Page
Database
Educational Technology
Culture
5. Typeface used in word processing or desktop publishing; the appearance of the text itself - which can be altered through the selection of various typefaces and sizes of type. These include many typefaces common to the printing field - such as Times -
ASP.NET
Font
Distractors
Case Study
6. The term describes the data-carrying capacity of a transmission line. In other words - how much data flows on a given transmission path. It can apply to network connections - system buses - or any 'pipe' through which data pours. High-bandwidth conne
Learning in context
Dithering
morphing
Bandwidth
7. Professional organization for music educators
ActionScript
Musical Educators National Conference (MENC)
High-Level Language
Graphic
8. Individuals who are learning English as their majority language for everyday uses - employment - and educational purposes. ELL also stands for English Language Learning
FAQ
English Language Learners (ELL)
Clip Art
mobile device
9. Types of computer systems identified by their operating systems - e.g. - PCs with Windows operating systems or Macintoshes with Mac-OS operating systems
Compensation
Computer Platforms
Motivation
Likert scale
10. A type of mnemonic in which an unfamiliar new word is linked to a similar-sounding familiar word - which is used to create a visual image that incorporates the meaning of the new word.
Geospatial Technologies
mastery learning
Key word
Alpha testing
11. Calculator with probes or sensors connected to it to allow gathering of numerical data
Musical Educators National Conference (MENC)
Internet
Calculator-Based Lab (CBL)
multiple intelligences theory
12. Comprehension exercises with certain words removed to require students to fill in the blanks
Designing Instruction
Antivirus software
Cloze Exercises
Label
13. A computer input device that permits the development of graphic images by translating drawing on the tablet into onscreen images.
App
Graphics Tablet
Displayed Visuals
music synthesizer
14. A computer database program that can store and manipulate students' grades.
Body Composition Analyzer
Internet
HTML 5
Computer Gradebook
15. On computer networks - a location for person-to-person real-time (synchronous) interaction by typing messages.
Chat Room
Graphics Tablet
Behavior
IEP Generator
16. Previously created graphics designed to be added to word processing or desktop publishing documents or to computer-based instruction.
Clip Art
Motor skills
CD-ROM (Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory)
microcomputer-based lab (MBL)
17. Category of visuals that are generally exhibited on display boards - (e.g. - multipurpose boards - bulletin boards) and are not projected.
Content expert
Displayed Visuals
Discovery Learning
Favorites File
18. Approximately a million bytes - or 1000 kilobytes.
Megabyte
microcomputer
Bandwidth
Directory File Structure
19. 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
Graphing Calculator
Instructional technology
Computer Program
Java applets
20. A form of assessment that indicates whether or not students have learned what they must know before progressing to the next portion of the instruction.
intranet
Corrective Feedback
Formative Evaluation
Constructivist Learning
21. The second phase of the Plan - Implement - Evaluate model. Focus is on the use of instructional materials and activities designed to help students achieve the outcomes specified in the instructional plan.
Implementation
Adventure Learning (AL)
Bulletin Board (BB)
Local-area network (LAN)
22. In cognitive load theory - cognitive processes that are required for making sense of material a person is trying to learn can overwhelm learner's cognitive capacity unless strategies are in place to handle it by learning theorist Robert Gagné as bein
Instructional method
Designing Instruction
Key word
Essential Processing
23. In language learning international class-to-class partnerships in which projects and casks are developed by the partner teachers in the collaborating institutions; students work with students of other cultures to provide authentic writing and researc
link
Blended Intercultural Collaborations
Keyboard
File Server
24. The adaptive use of previously acquired knowledge to analyze and understand new situations.
Accommodation
Compression and extraction tools
Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI)
Intelligence
25. A type of mnemonic in which mental pictures are used to represent new information.
music sequencer
Imagery
Graphics Tablet
Musical Educators National Conference (MENC)
26. Compression is the process to reduce file size through 'zipping' or 'archiving'. The compressed or zipped file can be from a large file or can contain several files that have been squeezed into a single file. After compression - the extraction proces
Hard Disk
Demonstration
Compression and extraction tools
Animation
27. Also called a personal computer - a stand-alone - desktop - or laptop computer that uses a microprocessor and is designed for use by an individual
microcomputer
language translators (machine translation)
Animation
Integrated learning system (IIS)
28. One of several digital formats for video that are able to be used with video editing software
Interactive media
Audio Video Interleave (AVI) Format
language translators (machine translation)
Email Address
29. Groups of people who 'meet -' usually via email - webpages - or other electronic means - to support each other's learning; in distance education - strategic - ongoing efforts by the instructor to encourage student-to-student interaction - as well as
Modem
Local-area network (LAN)
Freeware
learning communities
30. 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
Equilibration
Computer Algebra System (CAS)
link
Knowledge
31. 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
CLI
Contingencies Of Reinforcement
FM Amplification System
Inclusion
32. Piagetian view of how children learn by fitting new experiences into their existing view of the world
Assimilation
ActionScript
Course Management System (CMS)
Intelligent tutoring system
33. Software that enables the user to enter - edit - store - retrieve - sort - and search through computer databases.
Bookmark
Declarative Information
Database Management System (DBMS)
FAQ
34. According to learning theorist Howard Gardner - nine different and relatively independent types of intelligence that may be fostered by differentiated instruction and assessment
multiple intelligences theory
Advance Organizer
Email Address
Generative Processing
35. Acronym for 'frequently asked questions.' Used on the Internet to disseminate basic information and to reduce repetitive queries.
FAQ
Mailing list
Instructional technology
Directory File Structure
36. A procedure of instruction selected to help learners achieve objectives or understand the content or message of instruction (e.g. - presentation - simulation - drill and practice - cooperative learning).
Cybercheating
Compression and extraction tools
Classical Conditioning
Instructional method
37. 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
mobile device
Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
Electronic Publishing
Animation
38. Pages or items listed as results of an Internet or database search
Library/media specialist
music synthesizer
Hits
Cloze Exercises
39. A type of learning that refers to the ability to recall specific information.
Knowledge
morphing
learner-centered instruction
Computer-Assisted Testing (CAT)
40. One of the first browser programs designed to allow Internet resources to be displayed graphically rather than just in text
Mosaic
Classroom Observation
Fair Use Guidelines
Internet
41. Computer actions or programs - such as hypermedia software - that respond to events in the environment; for example - a mouse action event that occurs when the user clicks on a button.
Charting/Graphing Tool
High-Level Language
Downloading
Event Driven
42. Software that is given away free of charge - but whose author still retains all rights.
Compensation
Freeware
CLI
Learning in context
43. A way to store addresses of frequently used websites on your computer; in a browser - a set of Internet locations or URLs organized so that a user can return to them quickly
Bookmark
ASCII format
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Electronic Mentor
44. Software tools used to enhance and format photos that are then imported into desktop publishing systems or webpage products
Generative Processing
Image Editing Programs
Absolute address or absolute positioning
Bitmapped (BMP) Graphics
45. 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
Email Address
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Digital Camera
IEP Generator
46. A high-level programming language originally designed as an artificial intelligence (AI) language but later popularized by Seymour Papert (based on the learning theories of Jean Piaget) as an environment to allow children to learn problem-solving beh
Full Immersion Systems
Computer-Managed Instruction
Logo
Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT)
47. A term used on the Twitter system for a prefix to a message (Tweet)consisting of a pound sign (#)and a topic name (e.g. - #ripstevejobs). Users begin a Tweet with a hash tag to allow others to identify posts and create their own messages on that topi
Full Immersion Systems
Key word
Hash Tag
learner-centered instruction
48. 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
Multimedia authoring programs
Contingencies Of Reinforcement
Animation key frame
Label
49. 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
Exergaming
Content expert
Frame
Foreign Language (FL)
50. 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
Modem
Instructional game
instructional software
MP3