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Technology Applications: General Concepts 1
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1. Previously created graphics designed to be added to word processing or desktop publishing documents or to computer-based instruction.
Database Management System (DBMS)
Beta version
Clip Art
Image Capture
2. The systematic process of translating principles of learning and instruction into plans for instructional materials and activities.
Instructional design
Electronic Publishing
Megabyte
Hard Copy
3. 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).
Intrinsic motivation
Files
Drop cap
Instructional method
4. 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
Handheld Technologies
Instructional technology
Mug shots
Foreign Language (FL)
5. A field of study focusing on the design of technology systems that align with human characteristics - needs - and capabilities.
Likert scale
Ergonomics
Culture
Lossless and lossy compressions
6. Small - multi-purpose devices such as cellphones - e-books - and 'smart' pens that make it easy to view - communicate - and share information - regardless of location
Authoring Software
Flaming - spam - and chain letter
microcomputer-based lab (MBL)
Handheld Technologies
7. 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
Hypermedia
Interface
Inkjet printer
Avatar
8. The use of the computer in the management of instruction - including applications such as student record keeping - performance assessment - and monitoring students' progress.
Flaming - spam - and chain letter
Internet
Computer-Managed Instruction
Learning environment
9. Software designed to maintain and calculate student grades
Head-Mounted Display (HMD)
Electronic Gradebook
Hands-On/Minds-On Science
Criteria
10. A shortcut to encoding a series of actions in a computer program. Provides the means to perform a number of separate steps through a single command.
Email Address
Asynchronous
Macro
Implementation
11. In a browser - a set of Internet locations or URLs organized so that a user can return to them quickly
Evaluation
Favorites File
Classroom Observation
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)
12. Program stored on individual computers or on the school or district network in order to prevent access to Internet sites with inappropriate materials
Database
Applications
Filtering Software
Lossy compression
13. A form of education in which some means - electronic or otherwise - is used to connect people with instructors and/or resources that can help them acquire knowledge and skills; structured learning that takes place without the physical presence of the
Formula
Learning environment
Desktop Publishing (DTP)
Distance Education
14. 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
Gesture-Recognition System
Drop cap
Instruction
Computer Gradebook
15. The selection and arrangement of information - activities - methods - and media to help students meet predetermined learning goals.
Computer Program
Assessment
Instruction
Field
16. An instructional arrangement whereby students with disabilities receive instruction and services in a general education setting with regular education peers.
Iris
Head-Mounted Display (HMD)
Inclusion
Animation - path
17. Each individual category of information recorded in a database; the smallest unit of information in a database
Field
Computer Platforms
Augmented Reality
Datafile
18. 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 -
Alternative Keyboard
Event Driven
Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
CPU
19. 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
Attachments
Intelligent tutoring system
Constructivism
Focusing Question
20. Activity when students submit their written or artistic products to a website
Internal memory
Assimilation
Electronic Publishing
interactive or dynamic geometry software
21. A blueprint for instructional lessons based on analyses of the learners - the context - and the task to be learned. Planning involves the process of deciding what methods of instruction are best for bringing about desired changes in student knowledge
Course Management System (CMS)
Instructional plan
DVD
FAQ
22. 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
Content expert
Disability
Megabyte
Directory File Structure
23. A type of instructional activity designed to determine how well students have mastered lesson objectives.
Evaluation Activity
Digital Camera
Declarative Information
Conditions
24. Music-making equipment controlled by a Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) device
music synthesizer
Authoring Software
Accommodation
Memory
25. The continuous evaluation of instruction before - during - and after implementation - which leads to continual revision and modification in order to increase student learning.
Cycle Of Continuous Improvement
Classroom Observation
learning communities
English Language Learners (ELL)
26. 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
Input/Output Device
Frame
ADDIE model
Local-area network (LAN)
27. A question typically used at the beginning of a lesson to direct students' attention to particularly important aspects of the new information.
Focusing Question
Equilibration
interactive or dynamic geometry software
Filtering Software
28. A camera that stores pictures in computer compatible digital format rather than on film.
Digital Camera
Keyboard
Applications
Bitmapped (BMP) Graphics
29. Short for metamorphosing; refers to an animation technique in which one image gradually turns into another; also known as tweening
morphing
MUD
Information activity
Absolute address or absolute positioning
30. A unique electronic address for an individual or organization - analogous to a postal address.
CRT
Macro
Email Address
Computer Gradebook
31. A graphic representation of a real person in cyberspace; a three dimensional image that a person can choose to represent himself or herself in a virtual reality environment
Intelligence
Mosaic
Avatar
Application Activity
32. 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
Dithering
Bandwidth
Cloud Computing
Geocaching
33. Systems that allow individuals to view and examine the world through multiple layering of geographic data within a spatial environment; use of technology for visualization - analysis - and measurement of features and phenomena
Geospatial Technologies
Graphic
Handheld Technologies
Audio Teleconferencing
34. In printing - halftone refers to the technique of simulating shades of gray or color by varying the size of dots in a grid - or the number of pixels in a given area.
Foreign Language (FL)
App
Halftone
Avatar Spaces
35. 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
Cybercheating
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
Instructional method
36. 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
Laser printer
Focusing Question
Classroom Observation
Multimedia authoring programs
37. A teaching and learning model based on behavioral and cognitive theories; students receive information from teachers and do teacher-directed activities
Graphic Document Makers
Directed Instruction
Crowdsourcing
Browser
38. A type of hypermedia authoring software from Adobe that has become commonly used to create interactive web-based animations
Flash
Lighting
Computer Conferencing
Microprocessor
39. 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.
Blog
Copyright
Displayed Visuals
Computer
40. The physical components of the computer system; the mechanical - magnetic - electronic - and electrical components making up a computer system
integrated packages
integrating educational technology
Applications
Hardware
41. One of the devices (e.g. - a data glove) that allow users to experience a full immersion virtual reality system by providing tactile or touch input
Motivation
Application Activity
Field
Haptic Interface
42. Piagetian view of how children learn by fitting new experiences into their existing view of the world
Direct Observation
Assimilation
Instructional effectiveness
ARPAnet
43. 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
Favorites File
Internet
Electronic Portfolio (e-portfolio)
Browser
44. Software that provides on-screen blank musical bars on which the user enters the musical key - time - and individual notes that constitute a piece of sheet music
Key word
Alternative Keyboard
Heuristic
music editor
45. 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.
Cookie
High-Level Language
MUD
malware
46. In order to display a full-color graphic image on a 256-color monitor - computers simulate the colors it cannot display by way of dithering - which is combining pixels from a 256-color palette into patterns that approximate other colors. At a distanc
EPS (Encapsulated PostScript)
Digital Divide
Dithering
Assimilation
47. A 4.72-inch-diameter disc on which a laser has digitally recorded information such as audio - video - or computer data.
Compact Disc (CD)
Formula
learning communities
Conditional Information
48. 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 -
Designing Instruction
Font
File Server
Freeware
49. 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
Crowdsourcing
Intrinsic motivation
Lighting
Avatar Spaces
50. A rule of thumb or flexible guideline that can be adapted to fit each instructional situation.
Heuristic
Geospatial Technologies
Generative Processing
Emoticons