Glossary+and+Definitions



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 * ** Acceptable Use Policies (AUPs) ** || Agreements among students, parents/guardians, teachers, administrators, and staff that governs the use of school and school district computers, networks, and the internet. ||
 * ** Access ** || A Microsoft database program that allow you to store and manage information. ||
 * ** Anchored Instruction ** || A Constructivist term for learning environments that focus on meaningful, real-life problems and activities ||
 * ** Attachment ** || A file sent along with an e-mail message. ||
 * ** Attribute ** || A property inherent in a database entity or associated with that entity for database purposes. ||
 * ** Authorware ** || Is used for creating interactive programs that can integrate a range of multimedia content, particularly e-learning applications. ||
 * ** Binary ** || A two-digit numerical system, which computers use to store data and compute functions. ||
 * ** Browser ** || The program people use to access the World Wide Web. Ex: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, and Apple Safari. ||
 * ** Cell ** || A unit in an Excel worksheet column that holds information such as text and numerical data. ||
 * ** Clip Art ** || Professionally prepared art stored as files that may be inserted in Office applications. ||
 * ** Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI) ** || Software designed to help teach information and/or skills related to a topic; also known as Courseware. ||
 * ** Constructivists ** || Believe that humans construct all knowledge in their minds by participating in certain experiences. (Fosters creative problem solving and group cooperation. ||
 * ** Convergence ** || The combination of multiple services through lines of telecommunication from a single provider. ||
 * ** Cookie ** || Data that is sent to your computer by a Web server that records your actions on a certain Web site. ||
 * ** Copyright Law ** || A set of federal laws pertaining to the legal right to use original works. ||
 * ** CPU ** || Stands for “Central Processing Unit”. The brain of the computer. ||
 * ** Data Mining ** || Collecting data from all the information available and searching it to see relationships among the data elements. ||
 * ** Design Templates ** || Predefined colours, layout formats, and font styles that give PowerPoint presentations and Word documents a specific look. ||
 * ** Desktop ** || Gives you easy access to items on your hard drive, such as files, folders, and programs. It is the screen that typically displays when you first turn on your computer. ||
 * ** Directed Instruction ** || A teaching and learning model based on behavioural and cognitive theories; students receive information from teachers and do teacher-directed activities. ||
 * ** Discovery Learning ** || Jerome Bruner sees it as a more effective way of children learning concepts by discovering them during their interaction with the environment. ||
 * ** Drill and Practice ** || An instructional software function that presents items for students to work on and give feedback on correctness. It is designed to help students quickly remember isolated facts. ||
 * ** Drop-downs ** || A user interface control GUI element, similar to a list box, which allows the user to choose one value from a list. ||
 * ** Educational Technology ** || A combination of the processes and tools involved in addressing educational needs and problems, with an emphasis on applying the most current tools: computers and other electronic technologies. ||
 * ** Electronic Portfolio ** || 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 format such as a website or multimedia product. ||
 * ** Electronic Slide Shows ** || Sequences of frames shown in a linear way with presentation software (Ex: PowerPoint). ||
 * ** Embed ** || A method of inserting an object in an Office application file whereby the object embeds or becomes part of the file. ||
 * ** Field ** || In a database, a specific category or location to store information. ||
 * ** File ** || A unit of information produced by a program (Ex: Word document, PowerPoint presentation). ||
 * ** Filtering software ** || Program stored on individual computers or on the school or district network in order to prevent access to Internet sites with inappropriate materials. ||
 * ** Firewall ** || 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 to certain sites. ||
 * ** Flash drive ** || A small data storage device that uses flash memory and has a built-in USB connection ||
 * ** Floating Toolbar ** || Toolbars that can be detached from the application window’s border, moved and resized. ||
 * ** Folders ** || Often referred to as a directory. Placing work files into folders keeps them organized. ||
 * ** Form ** || A database object that presents display boxes where information may be displayed or entered. A form usually displays one record at a time. ||
 * ** Formatting ** || Characteristics (Ex: bold, italic, size, colour, type, etc...) applied to text, tables, lists, and documents. In a document, it allows for paragraph formatting or changing columns. ||
 * ** Formula ** || An Excel expression in the form of a series of numbers or cell references that produces a new value. All formulas start with an equal sign (=). ||
 * ** Frames ** || A space in Publisher that contains pictures. Pictures may be clip art, a circle, an arrow, a line, or Autoshapes as well as a variety of graphic files such as GIF, JPEG, or scanned photographs taken with a digital camera. ||
 * ** Global Positioning Systems (GPS) ** || A satellite navigation system used to determine ground position and velocity (location, speed, and direction). ||
 * ** Graphical User Interface (GUI) ** || A type of user interface item that allows people to interact with programs in more ways than typing, such as computers. ||
 * ** Graphing Calculator ** || A calculator with advanced functions and an LED displays; allows users to enter equations and shows graphs that result from those equations. ||
 * ** Hacker ** || People who engage in unauthorized use of a computer system. ||
 * ** Hard Drive ** || The hard drive is what stores your data. It houses the hard disk. ||
 * ** Hyperlink ** || Creates a connection between a word or phrase in a document to another document on the computer or the internet. ||
 * ** Hypermedia ** || Software that connects elements of a computer system (ex: text, movies, pictures, and other graphics) through hypertext links. ||
 * ** Integrated Learning Systems (ILS) ** || A network that combines instructional and management software and usually offers a variety of instructional resources on several topics. ||
 * ** ISTE ** || International Society for Technology in Education. ||
 * ** Kern ** || A part of a type letter that overhangs the edge of the type block. ||
 * ** Kerning ** || Is the process of adjusting white spacing in a proportional font. ||
 * ** NCATE ** || National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education. ||
 * ** NCATE ** || National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education. A council that developed a set of standards for the accreditation of teachers. ||
 * ** NETS ** || National Educational Technology Standards determined by the ISTE and NCATE for teachers (NETS-T) and students (NETS-S). ||
 * ** Objectivists ** || Believe that knowledge has a separate, real existence of its own outside the human mind. Learning happens when this knowledge is transmitted to people and they store it in their minds. ||
 * ** Office Button ** || Office 2007 provides the Office button located at the top left of the application window. When clicked, it displays a menu of file commands, such as New, Open, and Save As, as well as a listing of recently opened documents. ||
 * ** Placeholder ** || A pre-defined space in Microsoft PowerPoint where you can put text or pictures. ||
 * ** Podcast ** || Audio and video broadcasts that can be played on an iPOD ||
 * ** Portable Document Format (PDF) File ** || Format that allows documents to be seen and seen and sent with all the formatting and design elements (Ex: margins, graphics) of the original document without requiring the desktop publishing or word processing software used to create it. ||
 * ** Probeware ** || A type of instructional software tool consisting of hardware devices (probes) and software (probeware) to allow scientific data to be gathered and processed by a computer. ||
 * ** Queries ** || In Access, it’s searches that allow users to find specific information in a database, such as who lives in a particular ZIP code area. ||
 * ** RAM ** || “Random Access Memory” which is the process memory. ||
 * ** Record ** || A collection of information about a thing or person (e.g. name, address, phone #, e-mail address, and so on) in a table of an Access database. ||
 * ** Relational Database ** || Database program that can link several different files through common keyword fields. ||
 * ** Relative Cell Reference ** || In Excel, a reference to a cell (ex: C1) that, when used in a formula, changes when the formula is copied to another cell. ||
 * ** Ribbon ** || Displays groups of related commands in tabs across the top of the application window. Tabs provide access to major program functions and features in Office 2007. ||
 * ** Server ** || Serves information to computers that connect to it. When users connect to a server, they can access programs, files, and other information from the server. ||
 * ** Slide ** || A screen that may contain text and content such as pictures, clip art, graphs, tables, diagrams, video, and audio. Several slides make up a presentation. ||
 * ** Slide Show ** || A PowerPoint slide that has been inserted into a file. ||
 * ** Slide Sorter ** || One of several PowerPoint view options that presents small images of each slide in the presentation. It is useful for seeing the order of all slides and you can copy, paste, delete, and rearrange slides in the Slide Sorter. ||
 * ** Social Networking ** || Websites that allow users to be part of a virtual community. These websites provide users with simple tools to create a custom profile with text and pictures. Examples: Facebook and My Space ||
 * ** Spreedsheet ** || Software designed to store data by row-column positions known as cells; can also do calculations on the data. ||
 * ** Storyboard ** || A frame that serves as part of a planning blueprint from which a multimedia product or web page can be designed. ||
 * ** Student Information Systems (SIS) ** || Networked software systems that help educators keep track of student, class, and school data in order to maintain records and support decision making (Ex: attendance, marks). ||
 * ** Student Response Systems (SRS) ** || Handheld hardware and software that permits each student in the classroom to answer a question simultaneously and lets the teacher see and display a summary of results immediately. ||
 * ** Table ** || a) Allows you to display information in a table format in the word processed document. b) A collection of information in an Access database about a specific topic (Ex: student information, class materials inventory, etc...). A table consists of fields and records. Those may be more than one table in a database. ||
 * ** Taskbar ** || Contains buttons that provide access to opened folders and files and make switching between them convenient. ||
 * ** Tasks ** || An outlook folder that allows the creation of lists of activities. ||
 * ** Test Generator ** || Software designed to help teachers prepare and/or administer tests. ||
 * ** Textbox ** || A space that acts as a container of text and can be arranged, reshaped and created within a publication. ||
 * ** TPACK ** || (Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge) A metacognitive tool teachers can use to enhance technology integration into their classrooms by helping them visualize how their technology knowledge and skills work in tandem with their other knowledge domains about teaching and learning. ||
 * ** Uniform Resource Locator (URL) ** || Frequently referred to as the address or Web address, such as [|http://www.duq.edu]. ||
 * ** USB ** || Stands for “Universal Serial Bus”. The most common type of computer port used to connect
 * ** USB ** || Stands for “Universal Serial Bus”. The most common type of computer port used to connect
 * ** Virus ** || Small programs or scripts that can negatively affect the health of your computer. These programs can create files, move files, erase files, consume your computer’s memory, and cause your computer not to function correctly. ||
 * ** Web Browser ** || A software application used to view Web content. Some examples are Explorer, Netscape, and Firefox. ||
 * ** Web crawler ** || A search engine that does extremely broad searches. ||
 * ** Wiki ** || A collection of web pages located in an online community that encourage collaboration and communication of ideas by having users contribute or modify content, sometimes on a daily basis. ||
 * ** Wireless ** || A computer network set up to reduce the number of required cables and therefore has more freedom of movement by the users. ||
 * ** Word Atlas ** || Electronic dictionaries and thesauruses that offer search and multimedia features similar to those of encyclopaedias and atlases. Each word entry gives pronunciations, definitions, and an example. ||
 * ** Workbook ** || An Excel spreadsheet file comprised of one or more worksheets. A single workbook may contain numerous worksheets. ||
 * ** Worksheet ** || A screen in Excel workbook made up of columns, rows and cells. Each worksheet may contain as many as 256 columns and 65,536 rows. ||
 * ** World Wide Web (WWW) ** || Often referred to as the Web. A collection of information viewed with a Web browser that is available though computing networks. ||
 * ** WYSIWYG ** || An acronym for What You See Is What You Get. A system in which content displayed during editing appears very similar to the final output, which might be a printed document, web page, or a slide presentation. ||