Languages/Formats
Brain Strains
Hypermedia
Multimedia
Visual Interactions
100
A language that describes the geometry and behavior of a virtual world or scene.
What is EXtensible Markup Language or XML?
100
Presenting information in a way that overwhelms the capacity of the learner's information processing systems.
What is cognitive overload?
100
A graphic representation of a real person in cyberspace.
What is an avatar?
100
A video camera that is connected to a computer in order to gather local video for viewing at other locations.
What is webcam?
100
On the internet, texts that contain links to other texts.
What is hypertext?
200
Programming language that helps create environments where a user interacts with the Internet through voice-recognition technology.
What is Voice Extensible Markup Language or VXML?
200
In cognitive load theory, cognitive processes that are required for making sense of material a person is trying to learn can overwhelm learner's cognitive capacity unless strategies are in place to handle it.
What is essential processing?
200
In a full immersion virtual reality system, a headset that provides the sensory channel through which the wearer "sees" a computer-generated environment.
What is a head mounted display?
200
A term that combines "iPod" and "broadcast", can mean posting a video on a site online.
What is podcast?
200
A frame that serves as part of a planning blueprint from which a multimedia product or web page can be designed.
What is a storyboard?
300
One of several digital formats for video that are able to be used with video editing. software
What is Audio Video Interleave format or AVI?
300
In cognitive load theory, mental activity uses cognitive capacity but does not help the learners learn.
What is extraneous processing?
300
One of the devices (e.g. a data glove) that allow users to experience a full immersion virtual reality system by providing tactile or touch input.
What are haptic interfaces?
300
A term that combines "iPod", "video", and "broadcast", refers to video files that can be shared over the internet on sites such as YouTube.
What is vodcast or video sharing?
300
A sequence of frames shown in a linear way with presentation software such as PowerPoint.
What is an electronic slide show?
400
A file format for storing and sending video sequences on a network.
What is Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) format?
400
In cognitive load theory, the use of working memory that results in productive, engaged learning.
What is generative processing?
400
Type of virtual reality system in which a user places a headset(e.g. goggles or a helmet) over the eyes to provide a channel through which the wearer "sees" (i.e. is immersed in) a computer-generated environment.
What is full immersion systems?
400
Programs that allow a user to make additions and changes to a selection of digital video.
What is video editing software?
400
Stories that can be read from a computer screen, on mobile devices, or as print books with interactive buttons.
What are interactive or electronic storybooks?
500
An authoring specification for displaying three-dimensional objects on the Internet.
What is Virtual Reality Modeling Language or VRML?
500
Research findings that formats that are beneficial for one group have a negative impact on a group with the opposite characteristics.
What is aptitude treatment interaction or ATI?
500
Young people who are...living visually and virtually from handheld screens, smart phones, and computers...(and who) increasingly need multiple forms of literacy, especially visual literacy.
What is a screenager?
500
***Daily Double!*** 1. Video sequences that may be viewed on a computer screen by a program designed by Apple Computers Company. 2. software that creates a type of virtual reality environment by using a series of photographs taken at 360 degrees around a pivotal point and "stitching" them together into a seamless panorama view.
1. What is QuickTime movie format or MOV. 2.What is QuickTime VR Authoring Studio.
500
Software replicas of real objects often used in learning mathematics that are accessed via the internet and can be manipulated through a keyboard or other device.
What are virtual manipulatives?