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Technology Applications: General Concepts 1
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1. Similar to distance education - the notion of supporting learners - who may be situated locally or at a distance - with learning resources that may be distributed in space and time.
e-books (ebooks)
Distributed Education
Highlighting
Evaluation Activity
2. The smallest amount of information that the CPU can deal with; a single binary digit.
Bit
Aptitude-Treatment Interaction (ATI)
Library/media specialist
Listserv
3. Ancillary feature of word processors that identifies a range of grammatical and format errors such as improper capitalization - lack of subject-verb agreement - split infinitives - and so on.
Instructional activity
Grammar Checker
Conditions
FM Amplification System
4. A target language - or language of study - when the language being studied is spoken mainly in other countries
Java applets
Font
Foreign Language (FL)
ActionScript
5. An associational information-processing system in the text domain. In a hypertext system - text information is stored in nodes - and nodes are interconnected to other nodes of related information; in 1960 - Ted Nelson coined the term to describe a da
Emoticons
Hacker
Educational Media
Hypertext
6. 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
CD-ROM (Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory)
Attention
Content expert
Drop cap
7. Software that is given away free of charge - but whose author still retains all rights.
ASCII format
Image Editing Programs
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Freeware
8. Combinations of type characters that resemble human faces when turned sideways. Used to indicate emotion or intent on e-mail or in chat rooms.
Groupware
Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
Emoticons
Fair Use Guidelines
9. Subject matter expert who volunteers to work closely with students online
Classical Conditioning
Laser printer
Electronic Mentor
Monitor
10. 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
music editor
Likert scale
Evaluation
Electronic Mail (email)
11. Software products (e.g. - Microsoft Works and AppleWorks) that have several applications in a single package (e.g. - word processing - spreadsheet - presentation functions -database programs)
integrated packages
microcomputer
Alternative Keyboard
CMYK graphics
12. Sequences of frames shown in a linear way with presentation software (e.g. - PowerPoint)
File Server
Electronic Slide Shows
Electronic Publishing
Mass storage
13. Software designed for groups of students or teachers alike. The computer is viewed by a cooperative group of students or can be projected to the entire class to stimulate discussions and debates.
Full Immersion Systems
Groupware
Forms Makers
Blog
14. Devices that assist with analyzing and monitoring physical fitness levels by monitoring and reporting blood pressure
Cropping
Model
Blood Pressure Devices
Electronic Mail (email)
15. Research finding that formats that are beneficial for one group have a negative impact on a group with the opposite characteristic
Aptitude-Treatment Interaction (ATI)
Instructional effectiveness
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
Frame
16. Liquid crystal display screen - commonly used in computers and also in conjunction with display panels and projectors as large-group display devices.
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
e-books (ebooks)
LCD screen
Consequence
17. Literally 'multiple media' or 'a combination of media -' a software product or system that incorporates sequential or simultaneous use of a variety of media formats in a single presentation or program. Today - this term conveys the notion of a system
Cyberbullying
English Language Learners (ELL)
multimedia
Instructional efficiency
18. 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
Haptic Interface
interactive or dynamic geometry software
Auto-tuning
Electronic Mail (email)
19. Piagetian view of how children learn by fitting new experiences into their existing view of the world
Internal memory
Assimilation
CLI
Evaluation
20. Condition that occurs when an impairment limits an individual from performing an activity in a manner normally expected for human beings (communicating with others - hearing - movement - manipulating objects - etc.)
Learning Theory
Disability
Microprocessor
Instructional design
21. Use of the computer to orchestrate text - images - audio - and video to support a storytelling narrative with multimedia.
Circular reference
Keyboard
Bitmapped (BMP) Graphics
Digital Storytelling
22. A collection of components that includes the computer and all of the devices used with it.
Contingencies Of Reinforcement
Computer System
logic bomb
Interface
23. A statement that likens something new to something familiar. Analogies are typically used either to make abstract information more concrete or to organize complex information.
Analogy
Cookie
Interactive multimedia
FM Amplification System
24. An assessment instrument consisting of a series of statements with which students indicate their degree of agreement or disagreement; created by psychologist Rensis Likert
Display Boards
Likert scale
Favorites File
Asynchronous
25. 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
Digital Literacy
ARPAnet
Evaluation
Hardware
26. A form of evaluation that involves watching students as they work through some part(s) of the lesson.
Classroom Observation
Direct Observation
Motivation
multimedia
27. Antidote utilities to detect - eliminate and protect from viruses - worms and Trojans. It typically contains an engine - a resident virus shield - virus databases or DAT files - a task scheduler - an e-mail scanner - and an update manager. It guards
Java
Keyboard
malware
Antivirus software
28. A first step in web development that involves planning what the website will look like.
Geospatial Technologies
Instructional effectiveness
Megabyte
Design
29. A computer database program that can store and manipulate students' grades.
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
Font
Digital Storytelling
Computer Gradebook
30. A file format for storing and sending video sequences on a network
Harmony
Cloze Exercises
Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) format
Cell
31. American Standard Code for Information Interchange; a standard way of representing text - which allows different computer brands to 'talk' to one another. It is sometimes referred to as plain text or unformatted text.
Analogy
Library/media specialist
Musical Educators National Conference (MENC)
ASCII format
32. 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
Memory
Compression and extraction tools
music sequencer
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
33. An activity completed during a lesson to help students learn. There are five types of instructional activities: motivation - orientation - information - application - and evaluation activities.
Geocaching
Instructional activity
Electronic Storybooks
Event Driven
34. Applying scientific knowledge about human learning to the practical tasks of teaching and learning; the subset of educational technology that deals directly with teaching and learning applications (as opposed to educational administrative application
Blu-Ray Disc
Instructional technology
Cloud Computing
Classical Conditioning
35. A device that assists with analyzing and monitoring physical fitness levels by counting calories
Database Management System (DBMS)
Electronic Mentor
mobile device
Accelerometer
36. A technique that reduces the amount of a graphic that shows or prints.
Handheld Technologies
Instructional effectiveness
Cropping
CPU
37. An event - object - or circumstance that comes after a behavior and is attributable to the behavior.
Consequence
ADDIE model
Interactive media
Cybercheating
38. 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.
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
Cursor
CD-ROM (Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory)
Copyright
39. 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
Global Positioning System (GPS)
Iris
learning hierarchies
English as a Second Language (ESL)
40. A combination input and output device that allows a computer to communicate with another computer over telephone or cable TV lines; (short for modulator-demodulator) converts digital computer information into sound (and vice versa) for transmission o
Modem
Animation
Digital Literacy
Chat Room
41. Software tools that simplify the activity of making highly graphic materials such as awards certificates and greeting cards by offering sets of clip art and pre-designed templates to which people add their own content
Graphic Document Makers
Interlacing
Electronic Gradebook
Bit
42. Calculator with probes or sensors connected to it to allow gathering of numerical data
Image Formats
Hacking
Calculator-Based Lab (CBL)
Motivation
43. 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
Bookmark
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Google Docs
Adventure Learning (AL)
44. 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 -
Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT)
Admission Review and Dismissal (ARD)
Foreign Language Dictionaries
Instructional appeal
45. 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
Compact Disc (CD)
Listserv
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)
Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
46. Approximately a million bytes - or 1000 kilobytes.
Input device
Antecedent
logic bomb
Megabyte
47. Bitmaps are graphics stored patterns of colored dots (pixels on the screen). Vector graphics are stored as mathematical descriptions of sets of lines - triangles - squares - circles - etc - with defined line widths - line colors and - for polygons -
Antecedent
Icon
Bitmap and vector graphics
music synthesizer
48. The preliminary or main web page of a particular website.
multimedia
Model
microcomputer
Home Page
49. Software that protects a school's or company's entire computer system from attempts by others to gain unauthorized access to it and also prevents access by users to certain sites; or set up to prevent someone from going to certain locations on the In
Firewall
language translators (machine translation)
Alpha testing
Animation - path
50. A school specialist who helps students and teachers to become effective users of ideas and information by providing access to materials - providing instruction - and working with teachers to design learning strategies to meet the needs of individual
learning hierarchies
Library/media specialist
Freeware
integrated packages
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