A rectangular area of the screen that is used to display a program, data, and/or information
What is a window?
100
Equal to exactly 1,024 bytes, but often is rounded down to 1,000 bytes by computer users
What is a kilobyte? (KB)
100
Today’s students are often referred to as __________ because of their knowledge and comfort with the digital world.
What are digital kids?
200
A machine that has the capability of accepting and manipulating data
What is a computer?
200
Provides Internet connection from any home, school, or office using an electrical outlet
What is PLC? (Power Line Communication)
200
Copying a document from memory to a storage medium such as a floppy disk or hard disk
What is saving?
200
Similar to a copy machine except that it creates a file of the document instead of a paper copy
What is a scanner?
200
Web page built-in connections to other related Web pages
What are links or hyperlinks?
300
A series of instructions that tells the hardware of a computer what to do
What is software?
300
A collection of related Web pages that can be accessed electronically
What is a website?
300
Automated tools that help complete a task by asking questions and performing actions based on the answers
What is an assistant or a wizard?
300
Cost more than ink-jet printers, but they also are much faster
What is a laser printer?
300
Developed by John M. Keller as a model that would attribute differences in students learning to the amount of effort students were willing to put forth
What is the ARCS model?
400
A special type of notebook computer that allows you to write on the screen using a digital pen.
What is a Tablet PC?
400
Enables you to listen to a sound file as it downloads to your computer
What is streaming audio?
400
Software that allows an individual to create newsletters, brochures, and advertisements; postcards and greeting cards; letterhead and business cards; and banners, calendars, and logos
What is desktop publishing? (DTP)
400
A type of solid-state media storage, which means it consists entirely of electronic components and contains no moving parts
What is a flash memory card?
400
The ARCS Motivations your should change if students do not see value in the lesson
What is relevance?
500
A government initiative designed to provide disounts to schools and libraries on all communications services, including network installation and Internet access.
What e-rate?
500
A popular software program used to manage many educational mailing lists
What is a LISTSERV?
500
Software designed for the learning environment, like learning a foreign language or learning math
What is educational software?
500
The capability of a computer to distinguish spoken words
What is speech recognition?
500
Abusive or insulting email messages or group postings