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Technology Applications: General Concepts 1
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1. Software tools that automatically draw and print desired charts or graphs from data entered by users
App
FAQ
Charting/Graphing Tool
Digital Divide
2. 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.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Geocaching
Emoticons
Audio Teleconferencing
3. Fundamental to most operating systems is the concept of files and directories (or folders). A file system in most operating resembles an inverted tree with the roots at the top and branches at the bottom. This tree structure uses directories or folde
Directory File Structure
Intelligent tutoring system
Generative Processing
Chat
4. A type of learning that refers to the ability to perform complex physical actions in a smooth - coordinated manner.
LCD projector
Macro
Motor skills
Conditional Information
5. 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
Flaming - spam - and chain letter
Absolute address or absolute positioning
Computer-Assisted Design (CAD)
Designing Instruction
6. In Adobe Flash - an advanced authoring environment for creating content for the web - a mobile - or virtually any digitalplatform
Motivation activity
Body Composition Analyzer
interactive or dynamic geometry software
ActionScript
7. Learning is a persisting change in human performance or performance potential [brought] about as a result of the learner's interaction with the environment. To change (or have the capacity to change) one's level of ability or knowledge.
Learning
Animation key frame
Corrective Feedback
Digital Divide
8. 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
laptop computer
Lossy compression
Evaluation
Individualized education program (IEP)
9. 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).
information visualization
Computer-Based Instruction (CBI)
Instructional method
logic bomb
10. Inhibited functioning created by excessive demands being placed on memory and/or other cognitive processes.
Compression and extraction tools
Likert scale
Animation - path
Cognitive Overload
11. 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
Enactive Learning
Blood Pressure Devices
MUD
Generative Processing
12. 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
Desktop Publishing (DTP)
Computer-Based Instruction (CBI)
Head-Mounted Display (HMD)
Closed Circuit Television (CCTV)
13. An image format that allows transfer of artwork between any software packages that use PostScript printing files; a vector graphics file format.
EPS (Encapsulated PostScript)
Auto-tuning
Audiographics
Hash Tag
14. A highlighted position indicator used on the computer screen.
Event Driven
Culture
Cursor
Geocaching
15. Proposed by learning theorist Albert Bandura as learning that occurs through actions - rather than by observation
Circular reference
Graphic Document Makers
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Enactive Learning
16. A committee composed of the parent - administrator - assessment personnel - regular education teacher - special education teacher - and other pertinent representatives who meet on a regular basis to make decisions in regard to admission - services -
Instructional efficiency
Foreign Language (FL)
Admission Review and Dismissal (ARD)
Highlighting
17. 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.
Event Driven
Educational Technology
Cookie
Audiographics
18. A measurement appraisal process that is ongoing - developmentally appropriate - and dynamic; the process of gathering evidence of learning.
Assessment
Interface
Constructivist Learning
FM Amplification System
19. 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.
Electronic Gradebook
Key word
imagemap
microcomputer-based lab (MBL)
20. Piagetian view of how children learn by fitting new experiences into their existing view of the world
Instructional effectiveness
Assimilation
Compression and extraction tools
Course Management System (CMS)
21. 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
Database
Instructional effectiveness
Interlacing
link
22. Short for metamorphosing; refers to an animation technique in which one image gradually turns into another; also known as tweening
Megabyte
morphing
Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
Fair Use Guidelines
23. A worldwide collection of computer networks that can exchange information by using a common software standard; sometimes referred to (erroneously) as synonymous with the World Wide Web (WWW) - which is actually a subset of the Internet
Data Loggers
Favorites File
Blog
Internet
24. The software capability to copy images from web pages or computer applications and store them on your own computer.
Geocaching
Image Capture
Behavior
Closed Circuit Television (CCTV)
25. Texts in digital form that may be read on a computer or e-book readers; becoming a popular alternative to printed texts
Frame
Cloud Computing
e-books (ebooks)
Heart Rate Monitor
26. Pre-developed applications created with the Java programming language; make possible web page features such as animations and special effects - graphics and buttons - interactive displays -web data collection forms - and chatrooms
Learning environment
Flash
Groupware
Java applets
27. A level of skill that allows a person to respond immediately (i.e. - automatically) with the correct answer to a problem
e-books (ebooks)
Automaticity
Animation key frame
Algorithm
28. 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
Beta version
English as a Second Language (ESL)
Electronic Mentor
Handicap
29. In cognitive load theory - mental activity uses cognitive capacity but does not help the learner learn
Extraneous Processing
Beta version
Digital Camera
inquiry-based learning
30. 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
Keyboard
Heart Rate Monitor
MP3
Formula
31. Category of visuals that are generally exhibited on display boards - (e.g. - multipurpose boards - bulletin boards) and are not projected.
Displayed Visuals
Foreign Language (FL)
Graphic
Algorithm
32. Approximately a billion bytes - or 1 -000 megabytes.
Demonstration
Digital Divide
Discovery Learning
Gigabyte
33. 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
Instructional materials
Computer Program
Audio Teleconferencing
Hypermedia
34. Digitally encoded information permanently recorded on a compact disc; Also known as compact disc - read-only memory. It is a compact disc used to store computer data. CD-ROMs have a maximum capacity of 650MB.
CD-ROM (Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory)
JPEG (also JPG)
Applications
CLI
35. The use of the computer in the delivery of instruction.
Halftone
Lossy compression
Computer-Based Instruction (CBI)
Audio Video Interleave (AVI) Format
36. 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
Compensation
Animation
Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
Digital Storytelling
37. The selection and arrangement of information - activities - methods - and media to help students meet predetermined learning goals.
Instruction
integrated packages
Instructional effectiveness
Data Loggers
38. 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
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Blog
Forms Makers
Fair Use Guidelines
39. Devices that record data over time with sensors
Data Loggers
Classroom Observation
English as a Second Language (ESL)
Intrinsic motivation
40. A file format for storing and sending video sequences on a network
Design
Corrective Feedback
Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) format
Domain Name
41. Within a computer - this is an area that stores instructions (programs) and information that can be readily accessed by the processor.
Bitmap and vector graphics
Memory
Graphic Document Makers
Bitmapped (BMP) Graphics
42. Piagetian view of condition children experience when they confront new and unfamiliar features of their environment that do not fit with their current views of the world
Exergaming
Internal memory
Design
Disequilibrium
43. An instructional arrangement whereby students with disabilities receive instruction and services in a general education setting with regular education peers.
morphing
CMYK graphics
Inclusion
Alternative Keyboard
44. The process of selectively receiving information from the environment.
Learning Theory
Electronic Gradebook
Design
Attention
45. Email additions; may be documents - graphics - or software.
Instructional method
Hits
File Server
Attachments
46. Software used by architects and others to aid in the design of structures such as houses and cars
Computer-Assisted Design (CAD)
Byte
ASCII format
Halftone
47. 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
Google Docs
Intelligence
Cloze Exercises
Icon
48. 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.
Domain
Assistive Technology
Calculator-Based Lab (CBL)
Computer Platforms
49. (short for Command Line Interface) the interface is where the user types a text command and the computer responds according to that command.
Hard Disk
Library/media specialist
Image Capture
CLI
50. 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.
Highlighting
Digital Divide
Instructional plan
Digital Camera