Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
100
An internet-enabled phone that usually provides personal information management functions as a calendar, an appointment book, and address book, a calculator, and a notepad.
What is a smartphone?
100
A process in which two or more computers or devices transfer data, instructions, and information.
What is communications?
100
Contains instructions that coordinate all of the activities of the hardware devices in a computer.
What is the operating system?
100
Process of obtaining a program instruction or data item from memory.
What is fetching?
100
A graphic that has the illusion of motion.
What is an animation?
200
The official body for accrediting teacher education programs.
What is the National Council for Accreditation for Teacher Education?
200
The physical materials or other means used to establish a communication channel.
What is transmission media?
200
A special window displayed by a program to provide information, present available options, or request a response using command buttons, option buttons, text boxes, and check boxes.
What is a dialog box?
200
A thin, credit card-sized removable flash memory device that is used primarily to enable notebook computers to access the internet wirelessly.
What is a PC card?
200
Method of instruction in which students collaboratively in groups to achieve standards and related learning objectives.
What is cooperative learning?
300
Kids who are hypercommunicators who use multiple tools to communicate, multitaskers who do several things at once with ease, and are goal oriented as they pursue multiple goals at the same time.
What is a digital student?
300
The technique of breaking a message into individual packets, sending the packets along the best route available, and reassembling the data.
What is packet switching?
300
The process of moving different portions of the document into view on the screen.
What is scrolling?
300
Display device that uses gas plasma technology.
What is a plasma monitor?
300
Instructional planning chart to assist a teacher in identifying student understanding of curriculum standards and related objectives by having students state what they already know, what they want to know, and what they learned.
What is a KWL chart?
400
A computive device designed for single player or multiplayer video games.
What is a game console?
400
A general term that refers to both hardware and software used to restrict access to data on a network.
What is a firewall?
400
Create a computerized database; add, change, and delete data; sort and retrieve data from the database; and create forms and reports using the data in the database.
What is database software?
400
Large interactive display that resembles a dry erase board.
What is an interactive whiteboard?
400
Method of appraising or determining the significance or worth of an item, action, or outcome.
What is evaluation?
500
A special purpose computer that functions as one component in a larger product.
What is an embedded computer?
500
A group of email names and addresses gives a single name.
What is a mailing list?
500
Simplified accounting program that helps you pay bills, balance your checkbook, track your personal income and expenses, such as credit card bills, track investments, evaluate financial plans, and maintain a home inventory.
What is personal finance software?
500
A card, similar in size to a credit card, that stores data on a thin microprocessor embedded in the card.
What is a smart card?
500
Contains information, rules and regulations, rights and responsibilities, and policies and procedures.
What is a teacher's manual?
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