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Google Docs | It allows you to create/edit documents online collaboratively and share them with others. It allows you to create PDFs, MS Word documents, Rich Text documents, and Google documents. |
Cloud Computing | Storing files online |
Word Processor | A program or machine for storing, manipulating, and formatting text entered from a keyboard and providing a printout. MS Word and Google Docs are examples. |
Real Time | The actual time during which a process or event occurs; live or immediately. When working with someone, this can shorten the amount of time to complete the task. |
Collaboration | The action of working with someone to produce or create something |
Drop Down Menu | A graphical control element, similar to a list box, that allows the user to choose one value from a list. |
Upload | To transfer data to the Internet from a personal device or computer. |
Download | To transfer data from the Internet to a personal device or computer.. |
Background | A color, gradient, or image that can be displayed behind content on the slide. |
Animation | Movement or visual effect applied to individual items on the slide such as title, pictures or text boxes. |
Transition | Determine the changes in the display that occur as you move from one slide to another in Present mode. |
Theme | A template for a slide that usually includes color, font, and design. |
Layout | Dictates what elements will be on a slide and where they will be placed. |
Acceptable Use Policy | An acceptable use policy (AUP) is a document stipulating constraints and practices that a user must agree to for access to a district/corporate network or the Internet. Many businesses and educational facilities require that employees or students sign an AUP before being granted a network ID. |
Application | -Software (program) that is used by people to accomplish a task. |
Code | Any set of instructions expressed in a programming language. |
Cyberbullying | The use of electronic communication to bully a person typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature. |
Default | A setting that is automatically used unless another option is chosen. Preset options. |
Digital Citizenship | The norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to the use of technology. |
Fair Use | The legal concept that allows brief excerpts of copyrighted material to be used for purposes such as review, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or art. |
Format | To change the way text, paragraph, or images appear. |
Hardware | The physical components that make up a computer. |
HTML | HyperText Mark-up Language; the language used to create web pages. Icon - A small picture that represents an object or program. |
Internet | A network of interconnected networks. |
Media | Any kind of data including graphics, images, audio and video, though typically excluding raw text or executable code. |
Multimedia | Integration of animation, audio, graphics, text, and full motion video through computer hardware and software for education, entertainment, or training. |
Sexting | The act of sending, receiving, or forwarding sexually explicit messages, photos, or images via cell phone, computer, or other digital device. |
Shading | To change the background color of a table cell or background |
Software Piracy | Illegal copying, distribution, or use of software. |
Technology | The application of scientific knowledge to the production of goods and services that improves or creates a more efficient human environment. |
Text Box | An onscreen rectangular frame within an application into which you type text |
World Wide Web | A service made of connected hypertext documents linked together across the Internet. |
Cell | The intersection of a single row and a single column in a spreadsheet that can contain data |
Cell Reference | Identifies the column letter and row number for the purpose of obtaining and utilizing data. |
Column | The vertical workspace going up and down the screen, designated by letters |
Fill Handle | A small square in the bottom right corner of an active cell in a worksheet used to either copy data or to continue a pattern to adjacent cells. |
Format Cell | Controls how text is displayed or how data will be viewed in the cell. |
Formula | Equation used to calculate values in a spreadsheet cell. |
Function | A special formula that names a frequently used operation, such as SUM or AVERAGE, |
Merge Cell | Combining two or more cells into a single cell. |
Row | The horizontal workspace going across the screen, |
Spreadsheet | A document in which data is arranged in rows and columns and can be manipulated and used in calculations. |
WYSIWYG | An editor or program that allows a developer to see what the end result of a web page will look like while the interface or document is being created |
Blog | An online diary or journal; a personal timeline of written thoughts published/posted on a Web page |
URL | The address of a specific Web site or file on the Internet |
Domain Name | A unique name that identifies a website |
Embed | Coding that is added to the web page to make the file or applet appear as part of the page |
Sidebar | The navigation tool displayed across the length of every web page of a site |
Browser | A program that allows people to navigate the World Wide Web and view an html file |
Node | Computational devices (e.g., personal computers, printer, smart phones, servers) on a network. |
Network | A collection of nodes/computers connected to one another by networking devices, cables, or wireless media and arranged so data may be sent between devices |
ISP | (Internet Service Provider) a company that provides subscribers with access to the Internet |
Cookies | A small piece of text recording activity about websites one visits stored on one’s computer |
variable | A storage value that can change depending on conditions or information passed to it |
sprite | A computer graphic that may be moved on-screen through code |
recursion | A repeated loop of code |
events | Code that is executed by user actions (such as a mouse click), sensor outputs, or messages from other programs |
conditional statement | A piece of code where one course of action is determined based on a comparison (i.e. if/then) |
algorithm | A self-contained sequence of actions to be performed to solve a problem |
script | A series of commands or sequence of instruction that is capable of being executed without being compiled |
random | A number that falls within a defined interval and is impossible to predict future values based on past or present ones |