The Nitty Gritty
The Basics
Modern Usage
Playing it Safe
Picture This!
100
A unique string of numbers separated by periods that identifies each computer using the Internet Protocol to communicate over a network.
What is an IP Address?
100
Messages distributed by electronic means from one computer user to one or more recipients via a network.
What is Email?
100
Video or audio content sent in compressed form over the Internet in a continuous stream and can be played immediately rather than being saved to the hard drive.
What is Streaming Media?
100
A law that bars employers from requiring or requesting employees or job applicants to provide password information for their social media and email accounts as a condition of employment.
What is the Password Protection Act?
100
What is this?
What is an IP Address?
200
A global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols.
What is the Internet?
200
The instant exchange of written messages between two or more people using a software program on different computers or mobile phones.
What is Instant Messaging?
200
A regularly updated website or web page, typically one run by an individual or small group, that is written in an informal or conversational style.
What is a Blog?
200
The process or technique of identifying the geographical location of a person or device by means of digital information processed via the Internet.
What is Geolocation?
200
What are these?
What are Search Engines?
300
A local or restricted communications network, especially a private network created using World Wide Web software, used to securely share company information and computing resources among employees.
What is the Intranet?
300
A link from a hypertext file or document to another location or file, typically activated by clicking on a highlighted word or image on the screen.
What is a Hyperlink?
300
A digital audio file made available on the Internet for downloading to a computer or mobile device, typically available as a series, new installments of which can be received by subscribers automatically.
What is a Podcast?
300
A work or invention that is the result of creativity, such as a manuscript or a design, to which one has rights and for which one may apply for a patent, copyright, trademark, etc.
What is Intellectual Property?
300
What are these?
What are Web Browsers?
400
The address of a resource on the internet. an address that identifies a particular file on the Internet, usually consisting of the protocol, as http, followed by the domain name.
What is a URL or Uniform Resource Locator?
400
A software program that allows a user to locate, access, and display web pages.
What is a Web Browser?
400
The buying and selling of goods or services using the internet, and the transfer of money and data to execute these transactions.
What is E-Commerce?
400
A part of a computer system or network that is designed to block unauthorized access while permitting outward communication.
What is a Firewall?
400
What is this?
What is Streaming Media?
500
Name two ways to determine if a website is credible.
Look for authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency (up to date), coverage, and appearance.
(Examples: check the author and/or organization, check the date, look at presentation and organization, beware of bias, check the links, etc.)
500
A program that searches for and identifies items in a database that correspond to keywords or characters specified by the user, used especially for finding particular sites on the World Wide Web.
What is a Search Engine?
500
Content that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, video and interactive content.
What is Multimedia?
500
In what year was the Password Protection Act introduced to Congress?
What is the year 2015?
500
What is this?
What is URL?