Technology+Vocabulary

For a review of technology vocabulary, please visit the sites in GREEN  below. There are 8 different activities. Please do these IN ORDER! When you have completed an activity, raise your hand to Tell Mrs. Lyon something new that you learned! == **Technology Vocabulary**  [|1. How Do Computers Work?]- a site that provides a picture of parts of a computer and describes each of the parts and how they make the computer operate.  [|2. Click N Learn] - provides links to pictures of the inside of a computer with links to the key parts of computer. Do EACH level.  3. [|Parts of a Computer] - Do you know the names of all of the parts of a computer? To find out, click [|HERE]to read and review! [|4. Can you find the technology? Click here to try to find technology items in a messy room!]

 [|5. Here's a technology vocabulary puzzle.]

 [|6. Do you know the difference between INPUT and OUTPUT??? Try this to see!]

7. Spelling City...Mrs. Lyon's Technology Terms.  Do at least 2 different activities.

8. COMPUTER BUZZ WORDS

binary bit browser byte cable CD-ROM chat computer CPU cursor database cloud computing cookie desktop drag and drop Google Drive Netiquette || download e-mail Emoticon field floppy disk (diskette) gigabyte (GB) hard disk/hard drive laptop HTML icon initialize Internet kilobyte (K) MAC OS megabyte (MB) memory modem DVD ||  || monitor network peripheral pixel processor (micro-) RAM RAM vs. Hard Disk record scanner smartphone software spreadsheet URL USB virus World Wide Web (or Web) 404 Error Social Networking ||
 * backup

A. Look at the chart above. Go to Tech Terms to look up the definition of at least 5 different words that you do not know. If you don't find the word there, do a Google search. <span class="wiki_link_ext"> B. Go HERE <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 27.2px;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">to w rite the definition of a word that Mrs. Lyon will assign to you. <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 27.2px;">C. <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 27.2px;">Make a Wordl out of at least 20 technology-related words from the chart above. <span style="background-color: #ef00ff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 27.2px;">Click [|HERE] <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 27.2px;">to get to the Wordl site. <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 27.2px;"> Print your wordl when it is completed.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 27.2px;">__**Read the directions below and check with Mrs. Lyon before printing!**__ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%; line-height: 1.5;">Unfortunately, we cannot print directly from WORDL on our Mac computers. However, we can take a "screen shot" of what we have created and then print that! It will save as "picture 1.png" on your desktop. To print, open the new document on your desktop, and print. Step by step directions are found below.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 190%; text-align: center;">Shift Command (Apple) 4 <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 190%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 190%;">• Your cursor will now be a small cross hair + click (don’t <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 190%; line-height: 1.5;">let up on the mouse yet) and drag across the area you want to capture, then let go. This will create a new image saved on your desktop.