Glossary
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"Beautiful garbage" |
Any presentation that looks great, but has little real substance. |
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Browser |
a computer program used for accessing sites or information on a network (as the World Wide Web) e.g. Netscape, Explorer or AOL |
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HTML |
Hypertext Markup Language (used for coding web pages) |
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Quixote Quests |
Pointless quests. Don't really impart new information or reach higher level thinking skills. |
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Rubrics |
Authentic assessment tools that can help assess criteria that are complex and subjective. |
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Scaffolding |
Scaffolding is a temporary structure used to help learners act more skilled than they really are. As students learn how to learn, fewer scaffolds will be needed. (Educational training wheels). |
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URL |
Uniform Resources Locator. (Web address) |
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WYSIWYG |
What You See is What You Get A web editor that allows you to create web pages in a manor similar to word processing. No need to learn HTML programming. |
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Database |
a usually large collection of data organized especially for rapid search and retrieval (as by a computer) |
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Bloom's Taxonomy |
Classifies levels of thinking |
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Ramp up |
An introduction to a situation that allows you to gradually move to a higher level of understanding and/or performance. |
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Web Editor |
Used to write web pages. Does some of the HTML coding for you |
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This page created by:
Jill D. Walch
Central Square Central School District
August, 2001