The TV-like part of the computer that you look at to see information
What is the monitor?
100
a computer program used for accessing sites or information on a network
What is a browser?
100
Address, name, phone number, social security number and credit card information
What are examples of personal information that you should not give to strangers?
100
This software allows users to make video calls over the Internet.
What is Skype?
100
A short message typed from one phone to another.
What is texting?
200
A blinking line or shape on the screen that tells you where the next character will go.
What is the cursor?
200
The browser that we use in the computer lab.
What is Internet Explorer?
200
Unwanted e-mail from someone you don't know. It is usually trying to sell you something. Internet junk mail.
What is spam?
200
The online encyclopedia that Akiva subscribes to that you can access from home or school.
What is Encyclopedia Britannica Online?
200
A graphic image created to use online to represent self. Might be simple icon, human or whimsical.
What is an avatar?
300
The long, rubber-coated bundle of wires, with plugs on either end, that connects computer parts.
What is the cable?
300
An electronic communications network that connects computer networks and organizational computer facilities around the world.
What is the Internet?
300
Antivirus software that we use on ALL Akiva computers.
What is Thirtyseven4?
300
the word processor that we use in the computer lab
What is Microsoft Office Word?
300
A computer program that was written to purposely damage computer systems.
What is a virus?
400
The process of saving a URL in your Web browser. Allows the user to return to a particular site or entry by making a record of it.
What is a bookmark?
400
The most popular search engine in the world?
What is Google?
400
Sending or posting harmful or cruel text or images using the Internet.
What is a cyberbullying?
400
An extra copy of a document, file or program
What is a back-up?
400
A round, shiny portable disk that stores large amounts of software and information.
What is a CD-ROM or DVD?
500
A tiny picture on the screen that represents a program, file or folder.
What is an icon?
500
The way people in different places can "talk" to each other by typing their words into a computer.
What is chat or Instant Message?
500
Someone who will help protect you and make you safer like family members, caregivers, family friends, teachers, counselors, coaches, clergy members, youth leaders, and law-enforcement officers.
What is a trusted adult?
500
The unwritten "rules" of etiquette used on the Internet.
What is netiquette?
500
A personal journal on a website, intended for viewing.