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Tech Term
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| .com | A website extension that identifies the site as a commercial site |
| .edu | A website extension that identifies the site as an educational institution, usually a college or university |
| .org | A website extension that identifies the site as a non-profit, non-governmental |
| Application | A software program that lets you complete a task, such as writing a paper, creating a poster, designing an image, or viewing a Web page. |
| Backup | To save a second copy of data files, in case the first one doesn’t work |
| Benchmark | a translation of a standard into what the student should know and be able to do at developmentally appropriate levels (i.e., grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12) |
| Browser | The software application that allows you to view Internet pages. |
| Buffer | The buffer is a section of the computer where data is stored before being used. This buffering allows time for an application to fix differences in bit rates among other things. It creates a space of time for compensation. |
| Byte | - A unit of space. It is also used to represent a series of seven or eight ASCII code digits representing a character. |
| C++ | A popular programming language |
| Cache | A memory section of the hard drive that holds information while the CPU is working on it |
| Cc | Carbon copy or Confidential Copy—send a copy of an email to another person |
| CD-ROM (Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory) | a storage media that is able to store up to 660MB of information (e.g., text, graphics, audio, and full-motion video) |
| Cells | The intersection of a row and a column in Excel—where data can be inserted |
| Chevron | - Double arrows at end of tool bar that allow you to show buttons on two rows |
| Clip Art | Graphics, pictures, sometimes called click-art |
| Clipboard | A windows program that saves information you copy, to be pasted into a program later |
| Columns | The vertical arrangement of cells identified by a letter in Excel |
| Computer | - is a programmable machine designed to automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations |
| Computer virus | A destructive computer program that invades by means of a normal program and damages |
| Configure | to set the details or structure of a system (e.g., operating system) |
| Content Standard | – a description of what students should know and be able to do within a particular discipline or content domain |
| Copyright | a form of protection provided to the authors of “original works of authorship” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works, both published and unpublished |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit. The CPU is the hardware that most people consider the "brain" of the computer. |
| Curriculum Framework | serves as a bridge between standards and the classroom and provides curriculum content, organization, and presentation |
| Cursor | - visually distinct mark on a display indicating where newly typed text will be inserted. The cursor moves as text is typed and, in most modern editors, can be moved around within a document by the user to change the insertion point. |
| Data | Anything that is recorded or used for processing. The stuff that transfers between computers needed a name -- data seemed good. |
| Database | One or more large structured sets of persistent data, usually associated with software to update and query the data. |
| Desktop | The windows-generated look of the computer before programs are opened with icons, taskbar, and clouds |
| Desktop Publishing | the use of a computer to produce documents for publication |
| Dialog Box | A box that contains a message, often requesting more information or allowing you to select among options |
| Digital | Your CD player is digital. It is a series of small samples of data playing together very quickly (30,000 times a second). Digital recording of information means representing the bits of data through ones and zeros. |
| Dingbats | Picture fonts |
| Disk | - Either hard or floppy. Used to store data |
| Doc | The three-letter extension that tells a user that a document was saved in Word |
| Domain | A group of computers whose hostnames share a common suffix, the "domain name". The last component of this is the top-level domain. |
| Download | To save a file onto your computer from another source, like the Internet. People often download files, such as free-ware, share-ware, for installations, and sounds, movie clips, text files, or news streams onto their computer for viewing or listening. |
| Drag | - To select with the left mouse button and move to a new location |
| Drill down | Moving from a general level to a detailed level |
| Drop down arrow | The black arrow next to a tool that provides selections within a tool |
| Drop down Menu | A menu that has multiple commands that show when you select it |
| E-Mail (Electronic Mail) | – correspondence across a network by way of an on-line message-handling computer program |
| Environmental Probe | – computer peripheral that senses environmental data and communicates reading directly into the computer for recording and storage (e.g., pH sensor, humidity sensor) |
| Ethernet | - a system for connecting a number of computer systems to form a LAN, with protocols to control the passing of information and to avoid simultaneous transmission by two or more systems |
| Excel | - A spreadsheet application developed by Microsoft. To create spreadsheets, graphs, and do basic sorting |
| Explorer | A program in Windows that displays all files, folders and programs available on a computer |
| Export | To save data or pictures in a form other programs can read |
| Extension | The three-letter extension that tells a user that a document was saved in Word |
| FAQ | - An acronym for Frequently Asked Questions |
| Favorites | Where often-used websites are saved on an internet browser |
| Fill | Background color of a picture, text box or diagram |
| Firewall | - a part of a computer system or network that is designed to block unauthorized access while permitting outward communication |
| Flash drive | Memory stick-portable place to save files |
| Floppy Drive | A location on the computer that holds a removable disk |
| Folder | A icon on the desktop that can hold multiple programs |
| Font | A set of letters, numbers that are of a given look and appearance. |
| Footer | - Information that appears at the foot of every page—usually the name, page number and document title |
| Format | To change the look of text on a page to communicate better—bold, italics, color, font, size |
| Formula | always starts with “=” signs and describes what the calculations for that cell will be, i.e., add, subtract, etc. |
| GIF | An image format, an acronym for Graphical Interchange Format |
| Gigabyte | (GB) It's about a billion bytes. Actually it's 2 to the 30th power or 1,073,741,824. |
| Graphic Applications Software | one of a number of types of computer software that enables the user to create or manipulate illustrations, graphs, drafting products, and a variety of other images |
| Graphic organizer | A diagram that organizes information on a topic for the user |
| Graphic organizing software | Visual representation of the material a student is learning (e.g charts |
| Graphics | – the digital version of an image, a photograph, or a picture displayed on a monitor screen |
| Graphing Calculator | a hand-held calculator that, in addition to performing calculations and functional operations, can graph functions and relations |
| Hard drive | - A device for storing information in a fixed location within your computer. The equivalent of a filing cabinet in an office, the hard drive is used for storing programs and documents that are not being used. |
| Header | Information that appears at the head of every page in a document—usually the author’s name, the document title and the page number |
| Hits | The number of matches made by a search engine like Google in a search. |
| Homepage | The page on the Internet which most often gives users access to the rest of the Web site. A site is a collection of pages. |
| Hour glass | The picture showing that the computer is “thinking” before it performs your command |
| Hover | To “float” the cursor over a command until some information shows |
| HTML | The coding language used to create internet documents. An acronym for HyperText Markup Language |
| Hyperlink | - A link on a webpage to another webpage on the internet |
| Hypertext | This is a markup language that allows for non-linear transfers of data. The method allows your computer to provide the computational power rather than attaching to a mainframe and waiting for it to do the work for you. |
| Icon | Symbols or illustrations on the desktop or computer screen that indicate program files, documents, or other functions. |
| Indent | To use the tab key to start writing or typing a short distance in from the margin |
| Input device | - A peripheral used to transfer data from the outside world into a computer system. Some input devices are operated directly by the user, e.g. keyboard, mouse, touch screen, joystick, digitising tablet, microphone; |
| Internet | A world-wide network of computer networks in which users at any one computer can, if they have permission, get information from any other computer. |
| Intranet | a local or restricted communications network, especially a private network created using World Wide Web software |
| ISP (Internet Service Provider) | A group that provides access to the internet. An acronym for Internet Service Provider |
| Java | A program that recreates information so it can be read by most computers |
| JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) | An image format allowing for compression when stored. An acronym for |
| JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) | - Memory stick—portable place to save files |
| KB (Kilobyte) | a thousand bytes |
| LAN (Local Area Network) | A computer network limited to the immediate area, usually the same building. |
| Link | To connect one page on the internet to another |
| Login | To attach to a computer. It has also come to represent your User ID command. |
| Macro | A series of actions that occur following one key stroke |
| Master-slave | The relationship between a dominant drive and the secondary one |
| Maximize | To enlarge the window of a program so that it fills the screen |
| Megabyte | - (MB) About a million bytes of space. Actually it's 2 raised to the 20th power or 1,048,576 bytes of space. |
| Menu Bar | The word commands at the top of a program that activate drop-down menus |
| Minimize | To downsize an open program onto the taskbar |
| Mouse-over | To “float” the cursor over a command until some information shows |
| MPEG | A format for viewing digital video files. An acronym for Motion Picture Experts Group |
| Multimedia | the combination of audio, video, animation, and graphics used to disseminate information under computer control |
| Netiquette | Proper manners on the internet |
| Network | This a system that sends and receives data. |
| Numbered outline | An indented list using numbers/ letters to organize information |
| Operating System | – software that controls a computer and its peripherals |
| Output devices | equipment connected to a computer and used to transfer data out of the computer in the form of text, images, sounds or other media to a display screen, printer, loudspeaker or storage device. |
| Overwrite | Destroy (data) or the data in (a file) by entering new data in its place. |
| Photo-manipulation | – the ability to alter a scanned photo image |
| Platform | – computer hardware and the operating system that runs on it (e.g., a Macintosh computer or Windows-based PC) |
| Pointer | An icon, usually a small arrow, that moves on the screen in response to movement of a pointing device, typically a mouse.. |
| Presentation Hardware/Software | – computer hardware/software designed to support presentations involving multimedia (e.g., PowerPoint) |
| Printer | - A peripheral device for producing text and images on paper. Processor - the central processing unit |
| Processor | Random Access Memory. Readable and writeable memory that acts as a storage area while the computer is on, and is erased every time the computer is turned off. This memory stores data and helps execute programs while in use. |
| RAM | Random Access Memory. Readable and writeable memory that acts as a storage area while the computer is on, and is erased every time the computer is turned off. This memory stores data and helps execute programs while in use.op |
| Recycle Bin (Trash-bin)- | Where all deleted files are stored on the computer desktop |
| ROM | Read Only Memory. Readable memory that cannot be corrupted by accidental erasure. ROM retains its data when the computer is turned off. |
| Router | a device that forwards data packets to the appropriate parts of a computer network |
| Search Engine | software that allows retrieval of information from electronic databases (library catalogs, CD-ROMs, the Web) by locating user-defined characteristics of data such as word patterns, dates, or file formats |
| Shortcut | A file that points to another item, such as a program, document, folder, or disk. Key strokes that enact the same commands available in the menus of a program. |
| Software | This is a program, the actual code the computer reads. All other stuff is hardware. A floppy disc is hardware. |
| Spyware | is a type of malware (malicious software) installed on computers that collects information about users without their knowledge. |
| Standard | – a description of what students should know and be able to do at the highest level of generality (e.g. concept) |
| Switch | is a computer networking device that connects network segments |
| Taskbar | The gray bar at the bottom of the desktop showing what programs are open |
| Telecommunications | includes all types of electronic communication services, including satellite, fiber-optic, computer-based transmission, telephone, and radio |
| Terabyte | (TB) It's about a trillion bytes. Actually it's 2 to the 40th power or 1,009,511,627,776 bytes. |
| Toolbar | - A collection of icons that make choices available, especially in picture editing |
| Trademark | is a word, name, symbol, or device which is used in trade with goods to indicate the source of the goods and to distinguish them from the goods of others |
| Transition | The way one slide goes into another |
| Upload | To transfer programs or data over a digital communications link from a smaller or peripheral "client" system to a larger or central "host" one. |
| URL | A standard address on the world wide web. An acronym for Uniform Resources Locator |
| USB | A port where you put the flash drive—in the front of the CPU |
| Virus | - A program designed to damage files, usually delivered via the internet to unsuspecting users |
| Curriculum standard | activities used in classroom instruction to teach the benchmarked standard |
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