Vocab for TED 120
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| bandwidth | the carrying capacity of electronic transmission send and receiving information
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| 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.
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| bluetooth | Unifies different types of technologies like PDAs, mobile phones,
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| BMP | (bit map) oldest format for saving images on a computer. Good for saving back grounds or wallpaper. Usually 16-32 BMP's.
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| 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
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| booting up | the process of powering on a computer which it reads the instructions stored on ROM to tell it how to start up
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| 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)
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| byte | eight bits (on-off pulses) of data roughly equal to one numerical or alphabetical character of info.
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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.
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| DOS | Disk operating system
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| DPI | Dots per square inch, measure of resolution in printers and some other output devices
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| drill and practice software | software that uses a behaviorist format that offers rewards following successful completion of routine exercises
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| ERIC | Educational Resource Information Center
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| Flash stick | computer hardware device that stores date. AKA memory sticks
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| GIF | Graphic Interchange Format - graphics format that is used primarily for animated art, colored images, clip art, line art, and gray-scale images.
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| gigabyte | approximately one billion bytes of data or characters of data
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| 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
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| Home Page | on a website, the page that orients the visitor to the site and provides a connectionto additional information pages.
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| HTML | Hyper Text Markup Language - the formatting language that is used to determine how the information on webpages will look
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| Hpyerlink | a graphic or segment of text on a web page that contains instructions to link another web page to a different site
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| Icon | a small graphic image that represents one of the Guided User Interface's (GUI) options
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| 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
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| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group - the agreed upon standard for high-resolution images.
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| Kilobyte | approximately 1000 characters or 1000 bytes of data
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| 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.
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| Link | a connection to another point on the web - either on same document, on a different page, or on a different site altogether.
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| megabyte | one million bytes of 1,000,000 characters of data
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| mega pixel | 1,000,000+ pixels, the more pixels the higher the resolution.
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| Memory | a series of RAM chips that provides temporary, volatile electronic storage that is used by the CPU to store short-term data.
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| 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
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| MOV | one of the most popular digital video formats, known as QuickTime and the file is a abbreviated MOV for movie.
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| 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.
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| 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
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| OSS | Open Source Software - computer software for which the source code is made available under a copyright license for the public domain.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Podcasting | web feed of audio or video files placed on the internet for anyone to subscribe to.
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| PSD | Photoshop document
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| RAM | Random Access Memory - series of chips that make up a computers temporary memory area.
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| ROM | read only memory - initial instructions for computer to use when starting up stored on tiny silicon chips
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| RSS | real simple syndication - allows web users to subscribe to that have provided provided RSS feeds.
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| 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
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| 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.
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| SWF | shockwave flash file. small enough for publication on the web.
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| Terabyte | measurement term for data storage capacity. The value of terabyte is one trillion bytes or 1000 gigabytes
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| 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
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| URL | Uniform Resource Locator - the address for a web page on the internet.
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| Vlog | video blog
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| WAV | Digital version of analog video. WAV files maintain the quality of the original sound but the file size is often very large
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| 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.
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| 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
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| WIKI | piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit web page content using any web browser.
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| 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
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| wireless network | network in which info is transmitted via infrared, radio wave, or microwave technology rather than through wires.
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| web side | collection of related web pages
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| XML | Extensible Markup Language - a recommended gerenal-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup language, capable of describing many different kinds of data
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| 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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