Technology vocab Word Scramble
|
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Term | Definition |
Assistive technology | a set of adaptive tools that support students with disablilities in leaning activities and daily life tasks |
Electronic mail, most commonly called email or e-mail since around 1993, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Email operates across the internet or other computer network | |
Simulation | Programs, either in software or web-based form, that model a system or process |
Bulletin Board | An electronic message center for a given topic |
hypermedia | a linked form of multimedia that allows learners to make connections to different points in the program based on their background knowledge and learning progress |
software | consists of computer programs, libraries and related non-executable data. It is non-tangible, contrasted with computer hardware which are the physical components of computers. |
Chat room | a site on the internet where many people can simultaneously communicate in real time |
Internet | the complex web of interconnections among computers that allows people to communicate and share information worldwide |
URL | Uniform resource locator- a series of letters and/or symbols that acts as an address for a site on the Internet |
Distance education | Distance learning is organized instructional programs in which teachers and learners, though physically separated, are connected through technology |
problem based learning | an instructional strategy that uses a problem and the data gathered in attempts to solve it as the focal point of a lesson |
websites | a location on the world wide web identified with a uniform resource locator (URL) |
pixel | the smallest controllable element of a picture represented on the screen |
spreadsheet program | computer programs that are used to organize and manipulate numerical data |
computer literacy | the ability to use computers and related technology efficiently. It can also refer to the comfort level someone has with using computer programs and other applications that are associated with computers |
Instructional technology | the effective use of technological tools in learning. |
Tutorial | a software program that delivers an entire integrated instructional sequence similar to a teacher's instruction on the topic |
Database program | a computer program that allows users to store, organize, and manipulate information, including both text and numerical data |
RAM | random access memory is a form of computer storage. A random access memory device allows data items to be accessed in almost he same amount of time |
plotters | a vector graphics printing device |
port | a physical interface between a computer and other electronic devices |
Expansion slot | allows for an expansion card which adds functionality to a computer |
CD-Rom | pre pressed optical compact disc which contains data. Compact Disc Read-Only Memory |
Created by:
cathyjs03
Popular Computers sets