TECH TERMS FLASH CARDS

Patricia CooperEDT 660

National University

.AVI

Video file extension widely used that can be

uploaded to Blogger

Acceptable Use Policy(AUP)

An agreement among students,

parents/guardians, and school administrators regarding appropriate

use of the internet

Alt-tag

Alternative textual descriptions to provide

brief descriptions of graphics or images

Applications

Games, simulations, tutorials, problem-solving

programs, productivity software, and graphic

software programs

Asynchronous

Not at the same time

Augmented Reality

Combining real-world data with virtual data

Bit

An acronym for binary digit; the smallest unit of digital information. The bit can be thought of as a 1 or a 0 representing a

circuit on or off, respectively

Blog

Web log serving as a publicly accessible

personal journal for an individual

Compressed Video

Video images that have been processed to remove redundant

information, thereby reducing the amount of bandwidth required to

transmit them

Decode

To comprehend information that is

presented

Diorama

A static display employing a flat

background and three-dimensional foreground

to achieve a lifelike effect

Encode

To express an idea to others

File server

In local area networks, a station dedicated to

providing file and mass data storage services to the other stations on the

network

GB

Gigabyte; approximately one million bytes, or

1,000 megabytes

HTTPHypertext transfer

protocol

The web protocol that ensures compatibility

before transferring information

Link

An association between two (or more)

nonsequential concepts. In hypermedia, a direct

connection between two asynchronous items of

data

MP3

A format for compression of audio files to reduce

them into more manageable size,

especially when using the internet

Multimedia

Sequential or simultaneous use of a

variety of media formats in a given presentation or self-study program

Podcast

Internet-distributed multimedia file formatted

for direct download to mobile devices

Simulation

An abstraction or simplification of some real life situation or

process

Streaming Audio

Audio sent in packets to allow listening to

portions of a file before all portions are

downloaded

Streaming Video

A video file downloaded from the Internet that

starts playing before it is completely downloaded

Uniform Resource locator(URL)

The address for an Internet site or World

Wide Web page containing the protocol type, the domain, the

directory, and the name of the site or page

Vidcast

A type of podcast that allows students to see

and hear the information being presented

WAV

The digital version of analog audio created by using a computer sound

card and software to convert and store files in

a digital format