Tech Acronyms
Quality Matters
Do You Compute?
Famous Tech Songs
100
WWW
What is World Wide Web?
100
These are minimum requirements that students will need to participate in the course. This should be located in the Getting Started Section.
What are the minimum Technology Requirements?
100
She is considered to be the very first computer programmer
Who is Ada, Countess of Lovelace?
100
Joe Walsh sang this song that refers to a person who is more comfortable with traditional, non-digital ways of doing things
What is Analog Man?
200
URL
What is Uniform Resource Locator?
200
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Instructor Information:
Instructor:Walter Mitty Kitty
Contact Information: Email wmk@gmail.com
What is response time for email (or contact)?
200
She developed the programming language COBOL. Also a Rear Admiral in the Navy, nothing ever bugged her.
Who is Grace Hopper?
200
The group Rush sang this song about the fast-paced, technologically driven world and the potential for burnout and loss of individuality
What is "Digital Man"?
300
HTTP
What is "HyperText Transfer Protocol"?
300
In her book Connecting in the Online Classroom, Rebecca Glazier identifies this as key between teachers and students for increasing retention and student engagement.
What is building rapport?
300
While working at NASA, she became an expert in computer programming by teaching herself FORTRAN, and subsequently training coworkers the language as NASA transitioned to computers. She later headed the programming section of the Analysis and Computation Division (ACD) at Langley.
Who is Dorothy Vaughn?
300
In this song Prince portrays himself as a sentient computer searching its database for a "love life" and finding it lacking
What is "Computer Blue?"
400
CSV
What is Comma-Separated Variable?
400
You might try this if you notice a student is not participating or absent.
What is emal or reaching out?
400
Credited with the term "software engineering," this computer programmer developed Priority Displays error detection and recovery programs, warning astronauts in case of an emergency. Her software proved invaluable during the Apollo 11 landing. She was no wicked witch.
Who is Margaret Hamilton?
(note: not the Margaret Hamilton, the actress who played the Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz)
400
The Boggles sang this song that relates to concerns about, and mixed attitudes toward, 20th-century inventions and machines for the media arts.
What is "Video killed the radio star"?
500
What is Portable Document Format?
500
Course Objectives should be clearly stated and written in this format
What is Blooms Taxonomy?
500
Forget the Oscars, this famous movie actress patented a frequency-hopping system in 1942. Rejected by the Navy, years later, this technology became the basis for wireless technology, such as Bluetooth.
Who is Hedy Lamarr?
500
Donnie Iris and the Cruisers released this song in conjunction with a promotion for the Atari 1200XL computer. The song has Iris asking a girl if she understands he has a crush on her.
What is "Do You Compute?"