Question | Answer |
WYSIWYG: | An acronym for “What You See Is What You Get.” The text and graphics shown on your screen will match you printouts. |
Worm: | A computer file designed to do damage to a network. |
WWW (World Wide Web): | The section of the internet that allows access to text graphics and sound. |
Word wrap: | This occurs when you get to the end of aline and continue typing the text then go to the next line. |
Word processing: | Using keyboarding skills to producedocuments such as letters, reports, manuals, and newsletters. |
Web address: | Uniform Resource Locator (URL). |
Virus: | A computer program designed to damage computer files. |
Vandalism: | The intention act of destroying computer files or computer networks. |
Value: | The term for a number in a spreadsheet that can be added, subtracted, multiplied or divided. |
User name: | First part of an email address. Example: support is the user name of the following email address. support@studyisland.com |
URL Address- Uniform Resource Locator: | Web site address. Example: http://studyisland.com |
Text: | Words on a page |
Telecommunication: | The act of send and receiving information within a globe |
Table: | Columns and rows of cells that can be filled with text that are used to organize information> |
Storyboard: | A graphic organizer used for planning a developing a multimedia, such as a report/presentation. |
Thesaurus: | A feature in most word processors used to replace a word in a document. |
Stand Alone Computer: | A computer that does not rely upon any other computer or server to work |
Spreadsheet: | An application that can be used to organize, analyise, and manage information (Excel). |
Sort: | Arranging information in a specific order. |
Software/Application: | Programs that allow you to accomplish certain tasks such as write letters, sort files, draw pictures, and play games. |
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 on by one or all at a time. |
Select or Highlight: | To choose part of a document by clicking and dragging over it with the mouse to highlight the text. |
Security: | Protection of computer, computer files or a computer network from use without permission of the owner or owners. |
Search Strategies: | 1 Try to remember URL. 2 Use subject directories. 3 Use key words in search engines. |
Search Engines: | Software that searches, gathers and indentifies info based on key words. |
Search: | To look for specific info. |
Save As: | To save a document with a new name. |
Save: | To storing information on a floppy disk, hard drive or CD for later use. Work should be saved often, every 5 or 10 minutes, to make sure your latest changes are safely recorded. |
Row: | The horizontal divisions in a spreadsheet named with a number. |
Retrieve: | Open a saved document. |
Record: | A collection of related field and entries. |
Public Domain: | Software written and then donated to the public. Anyone can use and copy public domain software free of charge, but it is not always the same quality as commercial software. |
Probeware: | Computer-assisted data collection tools. |
Printer: | A hardware device used to make a paper copy of what is created on the computer. |
Print: | A hardware device used to make a paper copy of what is created on the computer. |
Portrait: | The default page setup that prints the document vertically. |
Pie graph: | Circle divided into pieces that look like a pie. |
Pictogram: | Pictures used to create a bar graph chart. |
Paste: | To insert information that was copied. |
Password: | A code for the security protection. |
Page Set Up: | The term reference to the way a document is fromated to print. |
OR: | Advance search strategy using specific words. |
Online Saftey: | Precautions taken to protect personal info. |
Online Resources: | Internet information available to a computer user. |
Numeric Keypad: | The portion of a keyboard, set up like an adding machine or calculator used to enter numbers and equations quickly into the computer. |
Non-linear: | Not moving in a straight line or path; a multimedia presentation that transistions from one image to another in an order that is present, but not in a straight path. |
Network: | A system of connected computers that allows the sharing of files and equipment. There are two types of networks: local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN). |
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. |
Monitor: | The device with a screen used to show computer images. |
Searching: | Symbols used in advanced searching. < Less than = Equal to |
Links: | Connections that bridge one image, page, or word to another. |
Linear: | Moving in a straight line in order. |
Line Spacing: | The span between lines of text. |
Keyword: | A word or refernce point used to describe content on a Web page that search engines use to search for content. |
Keyboard: | The hardware that you type on. |
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group: | A standard for shrinking graphics so that they can be sent faster between modems. |
Internet: | Term given to the network of computers that provide information worldwide. |
Indent: | To set the first line of a paragraph in. |
Illustration: | Clip art, graphics on a computer. |
Hyperlink or Hypertext: | Special text when clicked jumps the use from one place to another. |
Label: | The name of a colum in a spread sheet. |
Landscape: | The wide version of a page layout. |
Line graph: | A tool used to display trends and compare data. |
Host: | The name given to a computer directly connected to the internet. |
Home row: | Keys on the keyboard with fingers of the left hand are on A-S-D-F and fingers on the right hand on J-K-L-;. |
Home page: | An introductory screen on a Web page on the World Wide Web, used to welcome visitors. |
Highlight or Select: | 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: | An unauthorized person who secretly gains access to computer files. |
Graphic: | Images/pictures created, edited, and/ or published using a computer. |
Graph: | A picture shows the relationship of one or more sets of numbers to each other. |
GIF (Graphic Interchange Format): | A file format for pictures, photographs, and drawings. These images are compressed and sent quicker. |
Freeware: | Software written and then donated to the public that is open for any use. |
Format: | To set the margins, tabs, font or line spacing in layout of a document. |
Font: | The shape and style of text. |
Firewall: | Technology that prevents users from visiting inappropriate Web sites, and protects the network form unauthorized users. |
File: | A set of related records in a database. |