Basic Computer Literacy and Information Literacy Concepts
The following terms and concepts are likely to appear on the
Concepts portion of the Educational Technology Competency Exam. Use
the Internet as a resource to find information and definitions. Two
sites with valuable information include:
www.techterms.com www.wikipedia.org
1. Adware 2. Application software - word processing,
spreadsheet, presentation, speech recognition 3. Binary 4.
Bluetooth 5. Common file formats PDF, MP3, MIDI, GIF, JPEG, BMP,
PNG 6. Computer hardware components - Power supply, CPU,
motherboard, RAM, optical disc
drive, NIC, optical mouse, keyboard 7. Computer literacy 8.
Copyright 9. Database management software 10. Defragment 11.
Dial-up 12. Drivers 13. DSL 14. Email 15. Ergonomics 16. Facebook
17. Favorites/Bookmarks 18. Fax 19. File Extensions 20. File Paths
21. File size - bits, bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes 22.
Freeware 23. FTP 24. GUI 25. HTTP 26. Intellectual property 27.
Internet 28. Malware 29. Nanotechnology
http://www.techterms.com/http://www.wikipedia.org/
