TechGlossary

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The words we use are our common currency. Here are some key terms associated with instructional technology. What words, phrases, ideas are key to our understanding of and ability to engage in a discourse about technology in the classroom? Please add and revise! Thanks to Jackie Taylor and the Adult Literacy Professional Development Area contributors for beginning this process.

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Adobe Acrobat

Adobe Photoshop

Asynchronous

Audio card reader

Bookmark

Blog

Broadband

Broken link

Browser

CMS (Course Management System)

Compression

Dialog box

Directory

Distance Education

dots per inch (dpi)

Download

Drop down menu

Edit the HTML source code

E-Learning

Electronic discussion

ELR

Email attachments

Email newsgroups

Excel

Favorites

Fetch

File extension

File size

Firewire

FTP (File Transfer Protocol)

.gif (graphic interchange format)

Home page

HTML

HTML document

HTML editor

http (hyper text transfer protocol)

Hyperlink

Icon

Interactive Whiteboard

Internet Explorer

IP Videoconference

Java

JavaScript

.jpg or .jpeg (joint photographic experts group)

Learning Management Systems

LISTPROC

LISTSERV/listservs

Lynx

Mailto

Message Board

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning & Online Teaching)

Moderated list

Multimedia

Navigator

Newsgroups

Online training

Plug-in

Portable keyboard

Search engine

Server

Streaming

Streaming media

Streaming video

StuffIt Expander

Synchronous

Techno-buddy

Telephony

Telnet

Text-to-speech

Threaded email discussions

Thumbnail

Timecode

Unix

Unmoderated list

Unzip

Upload

URL (Uniform Resource Locator)

Usenet

Web-based survey or quiz

Webcast

Web Conference

WinZip

Word

WYSIWYG ("What You See is What You Get")

XML

Zip disks