Technology Title

Terminology
  1. 1. Hardware: Refers to the physical equipment that makes up a computer (including the peripherals)


  2. 2. Peripherals: Refer to any hardware device connected to a computer such as printers and scanners.


  3. 3. Software: A set of instructions that tells a computer what to do.


  4. 4. Monitor: A screen that shows information on a computer.


  5. 5. Keyboard: The set of keys with numbers and letters used to type information into a computer.


  6. 6. Character: A letter, number, word, punctuation mark, or symbol on a keyboard


  7. 7. Mouse: A pointing tool that you move with your hand.


  8. 8. Trackball: The ball in the mouse that moves the cursor


  9. 9. Central Processing Unit: Manages and directs all of the commands of the computer


  10. 10. Desktop: A case that holds most of the computers parts that are necessary for the computer to work. The CPU, permanent memory


  11. 11. Hard Drive: A tool, built into the computer, for storing information and instructions.


  12. 12. RAM: The computer’s temporary memory (Random Access Memory)


  13. 13. CD-ROM: Allows you to save large amounts of data. Is often the ‘D’ drive on the computer


  14. 14. Floppy Disk: A portable storage disk that will allow you to save your work on it.


  15. 15. Input: The information that is put into a computer.


  16. 16. Output: The information that comes out of a computer.


  17. 17. Icon: A picture that stands for something else, such as a disk or a program


  18. 18. Window: An area on the screen where information and icons appear


  19. 19. Cursor: A blinking vertical line that shows the place on the computer screen where text is being entered


  20. 20. Taskbar: Located at the bottom of the desktop screen, you can use this to change from one program to another. The task bar contains a button for each program that you are currently running, and you can switch back and forth between the programs by clicking on the appropriate button.


  21. 21. Title Bar: Appears at the top of each window and displays the name of the window


  22. 22. Minimize Button: Shrinks the window to a button on the taskbar, but keeps the window in memory


  23. 23. Maximize Button: Enlarges the window so that it takes up the entire desktop


  24. 24. Close Button: Closes the window and removes it from the memory and the desktop


  25. 25. Menu Bar: Appears immediately below the title bar and provides access to pull-down menus


  26. 26. Pull-down menus: Allow you to do a command within a program. A pull-down menu is accessed by clicking the menu name


  27. 27. Scroll Bar: Appears at the right (and sometimes at the bottom) border of a window when its contents are not completely visible. Click on and drag the scroll bar to see all of the contents


  28. 28. Internet: Are computers that are connected together throughout the world and can be seen by anyone that is connected to them also.


  29. 29. Modem: The device that allows your computer to talk to other computers over a telephone line


  30. 30. Back Button: Allows you to retrace your steps back to the first place you were at in the browser


  31. 31. Forward Button: Allows you to return to the page that you were at after hitting the back button


  32. 32. URL (Website Address): Uniform Resource Locator. This is very similar to a TV channel. You type in the website address to open up that website, just as you would type in the numbers of a TV channel to go see the show that you want to watch


  33. 33. Microsoft Word: Program used for typing papers and creating documents.


  34. 34. Internet Explorer: The Web browser that is built into the computer and allows you to see Web pages on the Internet


  35. 35. Start Menu: Menu located at the bottom left of the desktop that contains sub menus for essential computer operations


  36. 36. Programs Menu: A sub menu of the Start Menu that contains a list of all the programs that the computer has.


  37. 37. Save Command: Saves a document or file to a specific location


  38. 38. File Menu: Part of the menus available in a program. It allows you to perform certain commands to the file you are working on.


  39. 39. Folder: A way to organize and store your files


  40. 40. File Name: What you name your file to save it.


  41. 41. Microsoft Excel: Program used for creating spreadsheets performing math calculations


  42. 42. Microsoft Access: Program used for creating databases


  43. 43. Microsoft PowerPoint: Program used for creating presentations
  44. 44. Recycle Bin: Enables you to restore a file that was previously deleted


  45. 45. Scanner: An input tool used to input a picture of something


  46. 46. 1 Byte: A single character


  47. 47. 1 Kilobyte (Kb): is equal to 1000 bytes (a very short story)


  48. 48. 1 Megabyte (Mb): Is equal to 1,000,000 bytes (a short novel)


  49. 49. 1.44 Megabytes: Is equal to 1,440,000 bytes (the capacity of a 3½ floppy disk


  50. 50. 675 Megabytes: Is equal to 675,000,000 bytes (the capacity of some CD-ROMs)


  51. 51. 1 Gigabyte (Gb): Is equal to 1,000,000,000 bytes (a pickup truck bed filled with books)


  52. 52. 40 Gigabytes: Is equal to 40,000,000,000 bytes (size of a typical hard drive)


  53. 53. 1 Terabyte (Tb): Is equal to 1,000,000,000,000 bytes (size of a typical library)


  54. 54. 10 Terabytes: Is equal to 10,000,000,000,000 bytes (size of the US Library of Congress)