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Study land Voc
vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Web Address | Uniform resource locator [URL] |
| Word Processing | Using keyboarding skills to produce documents such as letter, reports, manuals, and newsletters. |
| Word Wrap | This occurs when you get to the end of a line and continue typing the text will then go to the next line. |
| Worm | A computer file designed to do damage that goes that goes through a computer and possibly a network |
| www[world wide web] | The section of the internet that allows access to text, graphics, sound, and even video. A lot of free information can be found on the www. |
| WYSIWYG | an acronym for ‘’what you see is what you get’’ and is pronounced ‘’wSimply means that the text on your screen exactly matches your printouts.izzy wig’’ |
| Thesaurus | A feature in most word processors used to replace words in a document with one that is more suitable and adds variety to your writing. |
| URL Address | Web site address |
| User Name | First part of an email address. |
| Value | The term for a number in a spread sheet that can be added, subtracted, multiplied or divided |
| Vandalism | The intentional act of destroying computer files or computer networks |
| Virus | A computer program designed to damage computer files |
| Stand Alone Computer | A computer that does not reply upon any other computer or sever to work |
| Storyboard | A graphic organizer used for planning and developing multimedia report/presentation. The contents layout and formatting of each slide and the linking together of the slides. |
| Table | Columns and rows of cells that can be filled with text to organize in formation |
| Telecommunication | The act of sending and receiving information such as data, text, pictures, voice and video. The exchange of information can be within a building or around the globe. |
| Text- | Words on a page |
| Shareware | Software that can be tried before you purchase |
| Server | a special computer used to store programs and files and then sends them out to other computers one by one or all at a time |
| select of highlight | To choose part of a document by clicking and dragging over it with the mouse to highlight the text |
| security | protection of the computer, computer files or a computer network from use without permission of the owners or owner |
| Search Startegies | 1. Try to remember url 2.Use subject directories 3. to use specific key words |
| Search engine | Software that searches, gathers and identifies informationfrom a database based on key words indices, titles, and text |
| Save as | To keep a document |
| Search | To look for specific information on the internet or computer |
| Save | To store information on a floppy disk, hard drive or cd for later use. Work should be saved often, every 5- 10 min. |
| Row | The horizontal divisions ina spread sheet named with a number |
| Retreive | open a saved document |
| Record | A collect of realted field and entries |
| Public Domain | Software written and then donated to the public. Anyone can use and copy public domain software free of chanrg, but not always the same quality as commercial software |
| Probware | Computer- assisted data collection tools. |
| Printer | A hardware device used to make paper copies |
| To put what is on the computer screen on paper | |
| Portrait | The default page setup that prints the document vertically |
| Pie graph | Circle graph divided into pieces that look like portions of a pie |
| Pictogram | Pictures used to create a bar graph chart |
| Paste | To insert the last information that was cut or copied into a document. Cut and paste can be used to move information within or between documents |
| Password | Acode for the security protection to allow access to a computer or the computer programs |
| Page set up | The term in referance to the way a document is formatted to print. |
| OR | Formal name given to advanced search statigies using AND, OR AND NOT, CONNECTORS. boolean logic was created by English mathmatician George Boole 150 years ago |
| Online safety | Precautions taken to protect personal information and images from being misused by others. |
| Online Resources | Internet information availiable to a computer user |
| Numeric Keypad | The portion of a keyboard, set uo like an addingmachine or calculator used to enter numbers and equations quickly into the computer. |
| Non- Linear | A multimedia project that does not go in specific order |
| Network | A system of connected computers that allow the sharing of files and equiptment. There are two types of networks:local area network and wide area network |
| Multimedia | To use a combination of text, pictures, sounds, movies,and or animation in a presentation. |
| Mouse | A tool used to move the cursor and pointer around the screen |
| Line Spacing | The span between lines of text |
| Linear | moving in a straight line or path, a muiltimedia presentation that moves in a straight line fro image to image |
| Links | Connections that bridge one image, page, or word to another by clicking on a highlighted |
| Math Symbols | > Greater than < Less than > with line under is greater than or equal < with line under less than or equal to = with slash not equal = equal |
| Monitor | The device with a screen used to show computer images |
| JPEG joint photographic experts group | Way to make an image portable |
| Internet | Term given to network of computers that provide information world wide |
| indent | to move the first line of a paragraph in |
| illustation | clip art, pictures or drawings on computer |
| hyperlink or hypertext | [special text when clicked jumps the user from one realated topic to another |
| host | main computer connected to the internet |
| home row | keys on keyboard with left hand are in asdf and right hand on jkl; |
| home page | an introductory screen on web page |
| highlight | to choose part of a document by clicking and dragging over it with the mouse to highlight the text |
| hardware | part of the computer system such as a keyboard, screen, mouse, joystick, printer, speakers,etc. |
| hacker | unathorized person who secretly gains access to computer files |
| graphic | images/ pictures created edited and or published |
| gif (graphic interchange format) | a file format for pictures, photos, and drawings that are compressed so they can be sent across telophone lines quickly. |
| graph | a picture that showa relationships with data |
| freeware | software written and donated to the public |
| format | to set the margins, tabs, font or line spacing in layout of a document |
| font | the shape or style of text |
| Firewall | technology that prevents users from visiting inappropriate websites and protects the network from unauthorized users |
| file | a set of related recordsd in a database |
| field | a spot where you put in a catogeory |
| entry bar | the field where information is entered in a spreadsheet |
| enter/return | the key used to begin new line in a word prossesor or to enter info into a spreadsheet |
| edit | to make changes in a document or presintation |
| sending and recieving messages through a computer network | |
| domain | address that identifies where info is at |
| desktop publishing | using features of work prossesing /dtp software to format and produce documents, letters, reports and etc with graphics |
| desktop | the background pictures on main screen |
| descending order | organizing or sorting info in order from lagest to smallest or numbers and letters |
| database | software applicationthat helps manage large collections of info. |
| delete | erase key to erase charecter |
| cursor | this is where the action is located on your screen, represented by a flashing line. when you type the info. appears at the cursor |
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