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Technology Applications: General Concepts 1
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1. Use of online systems to access personal data in order to accomplish identity theft and do other malicious acts
meta-analysis
Favorites File
Hacking
Charting/Graphing Tool
2. The software capability to copy images from web pages or computer applications and store them on your own computer.
Cycle Of Continuous Improvement
Image Capture
Hard Disk
Declarative Information
3. A computer database program that can store and manipulate students' grades.
Corrective Feedback
Computer Gradebook
Antecedent
Lossless and lossy compressions
4. 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
Fair Use
Instructional activity
Halftone
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
5. Programs that allow users to create and manipulate geometric constructions and provide environments in which to make discoveries and conjectures related to geometry concepts and objects
Database filters and queries
long-term memory (LTM)
Focusing Question
interactive or dynamic geometry software
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
Antecedent
Geocaching
Image Formats
Icon
7. 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
Event Driven
Drill And Practice
Instructional technology
Animation
8. Flaming messages are messages which express overly strong feelings. Spam is the term for e-mail junk mail - which should not be for¬warded. Chain letters are letters that have been forwarded from several previous e-mail readers. According to netiquet
Firewall
Application Activity
Blood Pressure Devices
Flaming - spam - and chain letter
9. A unique electronic address for an individual or organization - analogous to a postal address.
ASP.NET
Email Address
Calculator-Based Lab (CBL)
Electronic Storybooks
10. Software designed to help teach information and/or skills related to a topic; also known as instructional software or courseware - computer-based instruction (CBI) - computer-based learning (CBL) - computer-assisted learning (CAL) - or generic terms
Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI)
Analogy
Computer Conferencing
Electronic Portfolio (e-portfolio)
11. Use of the computer to orchestrate text - images - audio - and video to support a storytelling narrative with multimedia.
Digital Storytelling
Digital Camera
Display Boards
Assessment Rubric
12. Any pictorial representation of information such as charts - graphs - animated figures - or photographic reproductions.
Graphic
Directed Instruction
laptop computer
FAQ
13. The application of knowledge to solve problems or complete tasks that are realistic and meaningful.
Learning in context
Auto-tuning
Compensation
interactive or dynamic geometry software
14. A filter of an electronic database program allows application of a set of selection criteria or sorting instructions to the records in a table. When a database is closed - the selection criteria and/or sorting instructions will be wiped out. In contr
learning communities
Database filters and queries
CLI
EPS (Encapsulated PostScript)
15. Piagetian view of how children learn by fitting new experiences into their existing view of the world
Interface
Computer System
Assimilation
Database Management System (DBMS)
16. A teaching and learning model based on behavioral and cognitive theories; students receive information from teachers and do teacher-directed activities
Generative Processing
Directed Instruction
Data Mining
Interactive media
17. The adaptive use of previously acquired knowledge to analyze and understand new situations.
Intelligence
Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
Disability
Halftone
18. An individual's preferred ways for processing and organizing information and for responding to environmental stimuli.
Javascript
Learning style
Key word
JPEG (also JPG)
19. A major category of locations on the Internet. Major domains include com (company) - edu (educational institution) - gov (government) - net (network) - and org (organization).
Algorithm
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Instructional design
Domain
20. 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
MUD
Key word
Lossless and lossy compressions
Cookie
21. A device that assists with analyzing and monitoring physical fitness levels by determining the percent of body fat
English Language Learners (ELL)
Lossy compression
Body Composition Analyzer
Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
22. Also referred to as a domain designator - a required part of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) on the Internet that indicates what kind of group owns the server; examples include '.edu -' '.com -' and '.org'
Memory
Imagery
Domain Name
Font
23. A question typically used at the beginning of a lesson to direct students' attention to particularly important aspects of the new information.
Exergaming
Focusing Question
HTML 5
Monitor
24. 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
Electronic Portfolio (e-portfolio)
Crowdsourcing
CMYK graphics
Macro
25. Software tools that automatically draw and print desired charts or graphs from data entered by users
instant messaging (IM)
Charting/Graphing Tool
Compensation
Java applets
26. A synchronous form of Internet communication in which individuals type messages to one another
Electronic Gradebook
Database Management System (DBMS)
Files
Chat
27. 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.
JPEG (also JPG)
CRT
Formula
High-Level Language
28. 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
Compact Disc (CD)
Compensation
Gesture-Recognition System
Mug shots
29. A measure of the difference between what learners know before and after instruction; for example - Posttest - Pretest = Achievement.
Automaticity
Instructional effectiveness
Feedback
Mosaic
30. Multimedia that allows user interactions so that the user can determine the direction of the program or presentation.
Electronic Mentor
Frame
Lossy compression
Interactive multimedia
31. Devices that assist with analyzing and monitoring physical fitness levels by monitoring and reporting blood pressure
Flowcharting
Instructional method
LCD screen
Blood Pressure Devices
32. Software used by architects and others to aid in the design of structures such as houses and cars
CRT
Accelerometer
Handheld Technologies
Computer-Assisted Design (CAD)
33. The systematic process of translating principles of learning and instruction into plans for instructional materials and activities.
language translators (machine translation)
Instructional design
Demonstration
Disequilibrium
34. 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).
Highlighting
Instructional method
Java
Full Immersion Systems
35. 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
Feedback
Animation key frame
IEP Generator
Copyright
36. Professional organization for music educators
Blu-Ray Disc
Database
Musical Educators National Conference (MENC)
Intelligence
37. Refers to the attitudes - values - customs - and behavior patterns that characterize a social group.
Fair Use
Culture
Cooperative Learning
Direct Observation
38. The amount of working memory that is available to a learner to process new information and that is taken up at a given time by a learning task
Graphic Document Makers
Cognitive Load
Implementation
Beta version
39. Graphics generally use RGB (Red - Green - and Blue) or CMYK colors. While graphics on the Web or designed for on-screen display are RGB images - both commercial offset printing and inkjet desktop printing utilize CMYK. Dots of cyan (blue) - magenta (
Flowcharting
Hash Tag
CMYK graphics
Hacking
40. Text used to name parts of an electronic spreadsheet.
Label
Image Formats
Interactive multimedia
Advance Organizer
41. Channels of communication that carry messages with an instructional purpose; the different ways and means by which information can be delivered to or experienced by a learner.
Culture
MUD
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
Educational Media
42. 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
interactive whiteboard activity software
Motor skills
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
CPU
43. 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.
Design
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Desktop Publishing (DTP)
Conditions
44. 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
High-Level Language
Database
Hash Tag
mainstreaming
45. A unique vocal distortion technique made possible with vocal-editing software
Auto-tuning
Asynchronous
Conditions
Harmony
46. Software designed to maintain and calculate student grades
Imagery
Byte
HTML 5
Electronic Gradebook
47. The process of determining which digital tools and which methods for implementing them are the most appropriate responses to given educational needs and problems
Field
integrating educational technology
Learning style
Head-Mounted Display (HMD)
48. 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
Computer Algebra System (CAS)
Computer Platforms
Global Positioning System (GPS)
Inclusion
49. A type of learning that refers to the ability to recall specific information.
CLI
Closed Circuit Television (CCTV)
mobile device
Knowledge
50. Media formats that allow or require some level of physical activity from the user - which in some way alters the sequence of presentation.
Educational Media
Interactive media
Graphic
Blended Intercultural Collaborations