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TED 120 Final
Vocab for TED 120
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| bandwidth | the carrying capacity of electronic transmission send and receiving information |
| blog | a site where you write substance in a reverse chronological order. new substance shows up at the top, so visitors can read what is new. |
| bluetooth | Unifies different types of technologies like PDAs, mobile phones, |
| BMP | (bit map) oldest format for saving images on a computer. Good for saving back grounds or wallpaper. Usually 16-32 BMP's. |
| Bookmarks | a collection or URL's that have been saved by using the bookmark function of the browser allowing user to quickly find url without having to re-type it's address |
| booting up | the process of powering on a computer which it reads the instructions stored on ROM to tell it how to start up |
| browser | a web browser if a software application that enables a user to display and interact iwht HTML documents that are hosted on webservers. (Mozilla Firefox, IE, Safari) |
| byte | eight bits (on-off pulses) of data roughly equal to one numerical or alphabetical character of info. |
| Clip-Art | a term that is carried over from thedays of manual page layout, now refers to collections of prepared artwork that can be inserted into electronic documents |
| CSS | Cascading Style Sheets allow you to control the layout and look of your web page easily. Easy to use and affect the look while adding style to your web documents |
| DTP Software | Desktop building software that can not only preform typical word-processing tasks, but also make extensive and precise adjustments to page displays such as an attractive arrangement of graphics and text on a page. |
| DOS | Disk operating system |
| DPI | Dots per square inch, measure of resolution in printers and some other output devices |
| drill and practice software | software that uses a behaviorist format that offers rewards following successful completion of routine exercises |
| ERIC | Educational Resource Information Center |
| Flash stick | computer hardware device that stores date. AKA memory sticks |
| GIF | Graphic Interchange Format - graphics format that is used primarily for animated art, colored images, clip art, line art, and gray-scale images. |
| gigabyte | approximately one billion bytes of data or characters of data |
| hard copy | the printed version of material generated by a computer. it is the most common output of a computer other than what appears on the monitor screen |
| Home Page | on a website, the page that orients the visitor to the site and provides a connectionto additional information pages. |
| HTML | Hyper Text Markup Language - the formatting language that is used to determine how the information on webpages will look |
| Hpyerlink | a graphic or segment of text on a web page that contains instructions to link another web page to a different site |
| Icon | a small graphic image that represents one of the Guided User Interface's (GUI) options |
| Instructional Action Plan | IAP - a template in which the teacher is prompted to list lesson requirements and to detail what he or she will need for successful implementation |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group - the agreed upon standard for high-resolution images. |
| Kilobyte | approximately 1000 characters or 1000 bytes of data |
| LCD | Liquid Crystal Display - a display made of two sheets of a flexible polarizing material with a layer of liquid crystal solution between the two. |
| Link | a connection to another point on the web - either on same document, on a different page, or on a different site altogether. |
| megabyte | one million bytes of 1,000,000 characters of data |
| mega pixel | 1,000,000+ pixels, the more pixels the higher the resolution. |
| Memory | a series of RAM chips that provides temporary, volatile electronic storage that is used by the CPU to store short-term data. |
| MIDI | Musical Instrument Data Interface - industry standard protocol that enable electronic musical instruments, computers, cellphones, to communicate with each other. Phone ring tones and video games |
| MOV | one of the most popular digital video formats, known as QuickTime and the file is a abbreviated MOV for movie. |
| MP3 | Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3 - an audio compression technology that provides high-quality sound in 1/12 the space that the same soundwave would take in previous audio files. |
| MP4 | MPEG-4 is a multimedia converter format standard that is most commonly used to store digital audio and digital video streams; often referred to as MP4 |
| OSS | Open Source Software - computer software for which the source code is made available under a copyright license for the public domain. |
| PDF Files | Portable Document Files - are files that have been saved in Adobe Acrobat format so that the publication appears exactly as it would look on the print page. |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics - extensible file for the lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of images. May replace common uses of TIFF and patent free replacement for GIF. |
| Pixel | the smallest unit of information in an image. Each pixel represents a portion of the image in a specific color. The term pixel stands for picture element. |
| Podcasting | web feed of audio or video files placed on the internet for anyone to subscribe to. |
| PSD | Photoshop document |
| RAM | Random Access Memory - series of chips that make up a computers temporary memory area. |
| ROM | read only memory - initial instructions for computer to use when starting up stored on tiny silicon chips |
| RSS | real simple syndication - allows web users to subscribe to that have provided provided RSS feeds. |
| streaming audio | an audio technology for the web that send continuous stream or flow to allow the user to listen to the audio as it is received by the browser |
| streaming video | compresses and play back digital video that is sent in a continuous stream allowing user to view the video as it is being downloaded over the internet. |
| SWF | shockwave flash file. small enough for publication on the web. |
| Terabyte | measurement term for data storage capacity. The value of terabyte is one trillion bytes or 1000 gigabytes |
| TIFF | Tagged Image File Format, used for high quality publications because there is no color bleed. High file size, but a great format for a hard copy print |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator - the address for a web page on the internet. |
| Vlog | video blog |
| WAV | Digital version of analog video. WAV files maintain the quality of the original sound but the file size is often very large |
| web hosting | a service by which the user can upload the pages of a web site to the web host server and makes it available on the web. |
| web page | a document written in HTML that display information for use on the web and may contain a series of hyperlink to other resources on the web |
| WIKI | piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit web page content using any web browser. |
| WWW | world wide web, part of the internet that uses a GUI and hyperlink texts between different addresses to allow easier navigation from one site of interest to another |
| wireless network | network in which info is transmitted via infrared, radio wave, or microwave technology rather than through wires. |
| web side | collection of related web pages |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language - a recommended gerenal-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup language, capable of describing many different kinds of data |
| Zipdrive | computer hardware device that stores data. Zip disk drives is somewhat like a floppy disk, only the size of disks inserted into the devise are different and the storage capacity of a zip is much larger. |
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