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Technology Applications: General Concepts 1

Subjects : it-skills, literacy
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1. Subject matter expert who volunteers to work closely with students online






2. A network created in 1969 by the U.S. government-funded Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to enable communications among important defense sites in the event of a worldwide catastrophe such as a nuclear attack; later became the Internet






3. A type of mnemonic in which mental pictures are used to represent new information.






4. 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






5. Growing problem of online harassment in social networks






6. In education - academic dishonesty in which someone uses another's work obtained from the Internet as his/her own - also known as online cheating






7. 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 -






8. Any practical device used to make information easier to remember - including rhymes - acronyms - and acrostics.






9. Software that is given away free of charge - but whose author still retains all rights.






10. The software capability to copy images from web pages or computer applications and store them on your own computer.






11. The continuous evaluation of instruction before - during - and after implementation - which leads to continual revision and modification in order to increase student learning.






12. A device that includes a display screen connected to a computer and digital projector; allows information projected on the screen to be manipulated with special pens or one's hands and also allows drawings or notes from a given session to be saved an






13. A revision of the HTML standard that provides many of the features of a Flash environment without using Flash






14. A type of learning that refers to the ability to recall specific information.






15. A term coined by Lloyd Morrisett - former president of the Markle Foundation - used to describe the gap between those individuals who have access to technology such as computer software - the Internet - and so on and those who do not.






16. 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






17. On computer networks - a location for person-to-person real-time (synchronous) interaction by typing messages.






18. In desktop publishing - the first letter of a paragraph that is enlarged to 'drop' down two or more line. Drop caps are often seen at the beginning of newsletter article - where the top of the first letter of the first word lines up with the top of t






19. 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






20. Device consisting of a transmitter - which senses the heartbeat from the heart's electrical impulses - and a wristwatch receiver - which receives and records each beat through radio transmission from the transmitter






21. 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






22. Software that assists teachers in preparing individual educational plans (IEPs) required by law for students with special needs; automates the process by providing on-screen prompts that remind teachers of the required components in the plan






23. A branch of computer science concerned with the design of computers and software that are capable of responding in ways that emulate the decision-making capabilities of the human mind.






24. 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






25. A type of problem solving that requires students to actively participate in real or hypothetical problem situations that reflect the types of experiences actually encountered in the discipline under study






26. A collection of eight bits - equivalent to one alphanumeric character.






27. Software tools that create documents and web pages with 'fillable' forms






28. A level of skill that allows a person to respond immediately (i.e. - automatically) with the correct answer to a problem






29. The third phase in the Plan - Implement - Evaluate model. Focus is on assessment techniques used to determine the level of learning students have achieved and/or the effectiveness of the instructional materials.






30. An instructional plan for an individual student (usually one with special needs) that describes the student's current level of proficiency and also establishes short- and long-term goals for future focus. An IEP is typically developed through a confe






31. An internal network or a subset of the Internet - usually available only to the members of the organization that set it up; as a provision for security - some technical department set up Intranets which are parts of the Internet used internally withi






32. A collection of information systematized by computer software to allow storage and easy retrieval through keyword searching; the program designed to accomplish these tasks






33. 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.






34. Devices that record data over time with sensors






35. A technique that reduces the amount of a graphic that shows or prints.






36. A type of hypermedia authoring software from Adobe that has become commonly used to create interactive web-based animations






37. 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






38. 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






39. 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






40. A field of study focusing on the design of technology systems that align with human characteristics - needs - and capabilities.






41. Texts in digital form that may be read on a computer or e-book readers; becoming a popular alternative to printed texts






42. Circular reference of electronic spreadsheet formula happens when you enter a formula that includes functions referring back to the cell in which the formula is contained. When this happens - users receive an error message referring to circular refer






43. 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






44. 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






45. A single silicon chip that contains all of the CPU circuits for a computer system.






46. Sometimes referred to as the ADDIE model - the current version of systems approach of instructional design is a process comprised of a series of phases: analysis - design - development - implementation - and evaluation. Currently - almost all ISD mod






47. A computer system set up to allow notices to be posted and viewed by anyone who has access to the network






48. Within a computer - this is an area that stores instructions (programs) and information that can be readily accessed by the processor.






49. The set of high-speed data lines connecting the major networks that make up the Internet.






50. The use of the computer in the management of instruction - including applications such as student record keeping - performance assessment - and monitoring students' progress.