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Vocabulary
| 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) |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Chevron | Double arrows at end of tool bar that allow you to show buttons on two rows |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Desktop Publishing | the use of a computer to produce documents for publication |
| Digital | Your CD player is digital. It is a series of small samples of data playing together very quickly (30,000 times a second). Playing the bits back to again create what was recorded is called digital processing |
| Dingbats | Picture fonts |
| Domain | A group of computers whose hostnames share a common suffix, the "domain name". The last component of this is the top-level domain |
| Drill down | moving from a general level to a detailed level |
| 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 |
| Extension | The three-letter extension that tells a user that a document was saved in Word |
| 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 |
| Hour glass | The picture showing that the computer is “thinking” before it performs your command |
| HTML | The coding language used to create internet documents. An acronym for HyperText Markup Language |
| 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 |
| Macro | A series of actions that occur following one key stroke |
| Master-slave | The relationship between a dominant drive and the secondary one |
| Netiquette | proper manners on the internet |
| Overwite | Destroy (data) or the data in (a file) by entering new data in its place. |
| Spyware | is a type of malware (malicious software) installed on computers that collects information about users without their knowledge |
| Telecommunications | includes all types of electronic communication services, including satellite, fiber-optic, computer-based transmission, telephone, and radio |
| 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 |
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