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| Animation | Creating the appearance of movement with drawn objects, as in cartoons. |
| Background | A color or graphic that is used as the background on a page, presentation, or web page. |
| Button | A graphic that a user can "click on" to do something, such as download a program or go to another Web page. |
| Cam | An inexpensive, simple video camera that sits on top of or next to your computer monitor, it is designed to send live and recorded video as well as still pictures over the Net to one or more users. |
| Digitize | Convert "ink on paper" into a digital form. |
| DPI (Dots per inch) | A metric used to measure print and screen resolution, print resolution, and scanner resolution. |
| Desktop Publishing | Using a personal computer or workstation to produce high-quality printed documents. |
| Hypertext | A system for writing and displaying text that can be linked in multiple ways to related documents and available at several levels of detail. |
| Pixel | The smallest unit of a picture on a computer screen. |
| Scanner | A peripheral device that digitizes artwork or photographs and stores the images as files that you can use with text in a word processing or page layout program. A scanner is how you get a hard copy image of something onto a computer screen |
| Video Clip | A small clip of a video that you can play or insert into a presentation or web page |
| Virtual Reality | An artificial environment created with computer hardware and software and presented to the user in such a way that it appears and feels like a real environment. |
