A small, low-power mobile personal computer used primarily for e-mail and internet access.
What is a netbook?
100
The Microsoft and Apple presentation software used ubiquitously in business and education.
What are PowerPoint and Keynote?
100
A web journal or diary whose name comes from a combination of the terms web and log.
What is a blog?
100
This strategy focuses on the mental processes that students can use to restructure and understand information. Activities include comparison tasks, classifying tasks, and the use of metaphors and analogies
What is identifying similarities and differences?
100
The co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc.
Who is Steve Jobs?
200
A real-time image capture device that is replacing the "overhead" in the classroom.
What is a document camera?
200
Microsoft's commercial spreadsheet application.
What is Excel?
200
A webpage/website where users can add or edit content. The term is derived from the Hawaiian word for "quick"
What is a wiki?
200
Restating the essence of text or experience in a as few words as possible in a new, yet concise form.
What is summarizing and note taking?
200
The former chief executive officer (CEO) and current chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company he co-founded with Paul Allen.
Who is Bill Gates?
300
A device that receives video input and projects the corresponding image on to a screen. Often used in conjunction with a computer and/or document camera.
What is a data projector?
300
The open source free competitor for the Microsoft Office suite.
What is OpenOffice?
300
A web tool that allows you to create a graphic blog in poster format, using pictures, video, music, and words. It's name is a combination of graphic and blog.
What is a glog or glogster?
300
This strategy includes using graphic representations, mental pictures, physical models, drawings, and kinesthetic activities.
What is nonlinguistic representations?
300
An English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer. Considered a "father of the computer".
Who is Charles Babbage?
400
A large interactive display that allows users to control the computer with a finger, pen, or stylus on the surface.
What is an interactive white board?
400
The open source free competitor for Adobe Photoshop?
What is Gimp?
400
The graphical representation of a computer user. (Also a really expensive film with blue creatures)
What is an avatar?
400
When students are provided opportunities to interact with each other in a variety of ways so that their learning is enhance.
What is tagxedo?
400
An English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
500
A small piece of hardware that that plugs into an electrical connector on a computer and serves as an electronic "key" for a piece of software.
What is a dongle?
500
The database management system that is part the Microsoft Office suite.
What is Access?
500
A cloud based presentation software and storytelling tool whose name is derived from the word "presentation."
What is Prezi?
500
A process that includes systems analysis, invention, experimental inquiry, decision making, and problem solving.
What is generating and testing hypotheses?
500
The Danish-born computer scientist, software developer, and co-founder of Google Maps