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Technology Applications: General Concepts 1

Subjects : it-skills, literacy
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1. The primary authoring language used to develop webpages; Its codes are document formatting codes that tell Web browsers how to display the page on the screen. Its files contain the text to be displayed on the Web page embedded in its unique 'tag' lan






2. 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






3. An activity completed during a lesson to help students learn. There are five types of instructional activities: motivation - orientation - information - application - and evaluation activities.






4. Software designed to maintain and calculate student grades






5. 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






6. An online activity in which students look at a database of caches listed at a geocaching website (e.g. - http://www.geocaching.com) - decide on a cache to hunt for - use GPSs to help them locate it - and share their experiences with others involved i






7. Ways of storing digitized images for use in webpages and multimedia products - e.g. - GIF - JPEG






8. A worldwide radio-navigation system made possible by a bank of orbiting satellites and their ground stations to pinpoint exact geographic locations on earth; a device that cross-references a GPS signal with mapping software and shows the location to






9. 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






10. A device that assists with analyzing and monitoring physical fitness levels by determining the percent of body fat






11. A set of related principles explaining changes in human performance or performance potential in terms of the causes of those changes.






12. Use of online systems to access personal data in order to accomplish identity theft and do other malicious acts






13. 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






14. Approximately a million bytes - or 1000 kilobytes.






15. Comprehension exercises with certain words removed to require students to fill in the blanks






16. 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






17. 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






18. 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






19. 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






20. A set of guidelines used to reliably appraise or judge products or performances.






21. In Adobe Flash - an advanced authoring environment for creating content for the web - a mobile - or virtually any digitalplatform






22. An input accessory lets the computer user input data into the computer - whereas an output device allows the computer to communicate its results to the world outside. Input/output devices are also called I/O devices. The computer keyboard - display a






23. Use of the computer to orchestrate text - images - audio - and video to support a storytelling narrative with multimedia.






24. A condition that arises when an individual is unable to fulfill a role due to an impairment or disability






25. 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






26. According to learning theorists Benjamin Bloom and B. F. Skinner - an instructional approach in which students learn a sequence of objectives that define mastery of the subject; students pass tests on each objective to demonstrate they have mastered






27. Coined by a Boeing researcher in 1990 - it refers to a computer-generated environment in which a real-life scene is overlaid with information that enhances our understanding and uses of it






28. A set of instructions that tells the computer how to do something.






29. A type of information that describes the potential usefulness of facts - concepts - and principles.






30. The belief system that holds that humans construct all knowledge in their minds by participating in certain experiences; knowledge is the result of constructing both mechanisms for learning and one's own unique version of the knowledge - colored by b






31. Video games that provide physical activity or exercise through interactive play






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






33. Customized keyboards created for users with special needs (e.g. - enlarging the keys to provide more space for the student to press a key; removing keys that are not relevant for a given software; programming multi-step functions like save - print -






34. The most common input device; resembles the key layout of a typewriter.






35. Guidelines limiting the rights of copyright holders and allowing portions of copyrighted materials to be used for educational purposes; guidelines for portion - time - amount - and distribution of copyrighted materials for educational purposes.






36. The smallest amount of information that the CPU can deal with; a single binary digit.






37. Originally called OAK - a high-level programming language developed by Sun Microsystems. An object-oriented language similar to C++ - it has become popular for its ability to do interactive graphic and animation activities on web pages; a computer la






38. Devices that assist with analyzing and monitoring physical fitness levels by monitoring and reporting blood pressure






39. 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.






40. 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






41. A type of instructional activity that provides students with an opportunity to practice using what they are learning.






42. A device that allows analog audio or video to be captured in a form that the computer can use.






43. A first step in web development that involves planning what the website will look like.






44. An image format that allows transfer of artwork between any software packages that use PostScript printing files; a vector graphics file format.






45. Input/output devices that provide for storage and retrieval of programs and other types of data that must be stored over a long period of time. Also referred to as external or auxiliary memory.






46. Email additions; may be documents - graphics - or software.






47. 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






48. A small text file transferred to a web browser through an Internet server for the purpose of tracking the Internet usage habits of the person using the browser






49. An activity in which students with disabilities participate in one or more selected classes in general education






50. A standard adopted by the electronic music industry for controlling devices that play music; also known as musical instrument digital interface. Rather than recording sounds - MIDI instruments/software record finger action -- what note is being playe