In study skills classes in High School, students will learn how to use a computer. This is just a preview of terms they will come across in their studies. We will discuss each in length during the summer session
Term |
Definition |
Example |
Application Software |
Programs that are written to do tasks that humans want to do such as writing a letter or drawing a picture |
Education Software |
Browse the Internet |
When a person sits
down at a computer, opens the browser, hits the search button, puts a word in
the box and finds a lot of references to that word. |
|
CD-ROM |
Compact disk – Read
only memory |
Games |
Computer System |
Composed of
hardware and software |
Hewlett
Packard/Apple computers |
CPU |
Central Processing
Unit |
Internal hardware |
Disk Drives |
Stores information magnetically and requires some type of media such as tapes or CDs |
Hard Drive/Floppy Disk/CD-Rom |
|
Electronic mail |
|
Hardware |
Part of the
computer system is the metal, plastic, and silicon, that use electric
power |
|
Hits |
Number of results
found in a search on the Internet |
|
HTML |
Hyper text markup language, special program language used to communicate on the World Wide Web http://www.antionline.com/features/jargon/=H=.html |
<H1> means Heading 1 |
Icon |
Pictures, besides words, that give the user directions |
A book/an open file folder |
Input Device |
What you use to get information into the computer |
Keyboard/scanner |
Internet |
Network of networks made up of thousands of education, government, business and community networks sharing information. |
World Wide Web |
ISP |
Internet Service Provider |
America on Line (AOL) |
Keyboard |
Most common input device |
Other: mouse |
Modem |
A communications device that lets you communicate with other computers |
Can be built in or attached as additional hardware |
Output Device |
What you use to get information from the computer |
Monitor/Printer |
Search the Internet |
A planned, quality
search of the Internet |
|
Search Engine/ Meta-search Tool |
In a search engine,
you type a keyword to find information on that subject |
|
Software |
(Programs) A way to communicate with a computer to give it instructions written in specially designed languages |
Works |
System Software |
Software that makes the computer system perform its most basic operation such as starting up and reading disks |
Windows |
URL |
Universal resource locator |
http://Jdurbin50.tripod.com/index.htm |
www |
World Wide Web
Hypertext information retrieval system that navigates databases on the
Internet |
|
Web Site |
A special kind of publication of information on the Web |
Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov.) |