key vocab

Citation: This is the information needed to give credit to, or locate, work(s) published or created (a book, paper, article, web site, artwork, composition, music file) by others.

Hyperlink: A Hyperlink is an element in a digital document that links to another place in the same document or to an entirely different document or website. It is typically activated by clicking on a highlighted or underlined word or image on the screen.

Format: Format is a menu used to change the way a document looks and is organized, such as the font, font style (title, header, normal), font size, characteristics (bold, italics, underline), bullets, and line spacing.

Insert: Insert is a menu used to access special features such as images, drawings, tables, charts, and page numbers.

Tools: Tools is a menu with additional features that can be helpful such as spelling and grammar check, dictionary, translate, voice typing, and Explore.

• Viewer: A file-sharing permission you assign to a viewer with the link so they can only view the document, but cannot comment or edit

• Commenter: A file-sharing permission you assign to a commenter with the link that can not only view the document but can also make add a comment to the document.

• Editor: A file-sharing permission you assign to the editor with a link where they have full editing rights and can make changes to the file.

Citation: Information that is needed to give credit to, or locate, work(s) published or created (a book, paper, article, web site, artwork, composition, music file) by others.

Download: When you want a copy (data) or file from another person, or a web page, you typically click on the file and request to download and save it to your own device. It is an act or instance of transferring something (such as data or files) from a usually large computer to the memory of another device.

.PDF file: PDF is short for "Portable Document Format" which is a file able to be opened by almost any computing device without having to purchase special software. A PDF file preserves the layout, formatting, fonts, and images of a document so that it looks the same on any computing device.

Upload: This is the action or process of transferring a file from your device to another computing device.

example: When a Google document you are working on is saved, it is stored (uploaded) to a Google Drive Computer Server and sometimes on your own computer (this the opposite of download). When you attach a file to an email or message you are sending to someone else, that is uploading it to the email server (or SMS) to send to them where they can download it to their own computing device.

Columns: Columns run vertically (up and down) in a spreadsheet or table.

Row: Rows run horizontally (left to right) in a spreadsheet or table.

Cell: Each rectangular box in a spreadsheet and table is referred to as a cell. In a spreadsheet, each cell has a specific name identifying it's location by row number and column ID name.

End Rhyme: An end rhyme is when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same.

Internal Rhyme: An internal rhyme is a rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end.

Near rhyme: A near rhyme in when the words sound the same but do not rhyme perfectly.

Rhyme Scheme: A rhyme scheme is the regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem.

Text-to-speech (TTS): TTS is a type of assistive technology that reads digital text aloud. It's sometimes called “read aloud” technology. With a click of a button or the touch of a finger, TTS can take words on a computer or other digital device and convert them into audio.

Speech-to-text (STT): Speech-to-text is the process of converting speech input into digital text, based on speech recognition.

Translate: To translate something is when you turn text into your own language into another language or vice versa.

Online Dictionaries: Online dictionaries are dictionaries that are available on the Internet or World Wide Web and accessed through a Web browser using a computer or a mobile device, primarily by typing a query term into a search box on the site.

Digital footprint: On the Internet, a digital footprint is a word used to describe the trail, traces, or footprints that people leave online. So that means anytime you do or write something online, there will remain a trace even if you delete it.

Empathy: Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

Media Usage: Media usage is the sum of information and entertainment on the Internet taken in by an individual or group.

Social Responsibility: Social responsibility means that individuals and companies have a duty to act in the best interests of their environment and society as a whole.

Algorithms: An algorithm is a detailed step-by-step instruction set or formula for solving a problem, or completing a task such as a recipe or programming a robot.

Digital footprint: On the Internet, a digital footprint is a word used to describe the trail, traces, or footprints that people leave online. So that means anytime you do or write something online, there will remain a trace even if you delete it.

Convey: To convey is to communicate a message or information.

Web presence: Once you have posted on the web, you now have a web presence. This cannot be deleted as there will always be a digital trace that can be found by various searching techniques.

Design process: The design process is a systematic problem-solving strategy that designers follow to come up with a solution to a probl

Empathy: Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

Choice Board: A choice board is a graphic organizer or table that allows students to choose different ways about a particular concept.

Social Responsibility: Social responsibility means that individuals and companies have a duty to act in the best interests of their environment and society as a whole.

• Philanthropy is providing goodwill to fellow members of the human race, especially active effort to promote human welfare

• Environmental acting in the best interests of their environment and society as a whole.

• Economical is engaging in charitable giving

• Political is a responsibility to step in and provide leadership on important social issues.

Social Media: Social Media is the form of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) where users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content.

Meme: A meme is an amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video) or genre of items that is spread widely online, especially through social media.

Cyberbullying: Cyberbullying is the verbal bullying of someone (as a classmate) through the use of often anonymous electronic communication (as online posts or text messages).

Chat: To chat is to take part in an online discussion in a chat room.

Culture: Culture is the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group.

Forum: A forum is a medium (such as a newspaper or online service) of open discussion or expression of ideas.

Digital Media: Digital media refers to electronic devices and media platforms such as computers, cell phones, digital video, social networking sites, the Internet, video games, and virtual worlds that allow users to create, communicate, and interact with one another or with the device or application itself.

Media Balance: Media balance is the use of media in a way that feels healthy and in balance with other life activities (family, friends, school, hobbies, etc.).

Habit: A habit is something we do automatically without thinking repeatedly.

Unplug: To unplug is engaging in activities that don't involve using devices, apps, or the internet.

Digital addiction: Digital addiction is a type of addiction characterized by a dependence on the use of digital technologies such as cell phones and computers.

Netiquette: Netiquette is the rules about the proper and polite way to communicate with other people when you are using the Internet.

Cyberspace: Cyberspace is the online world of computer networks and the Internet.

• Internet pen pal:

• Responsible digital citizen:

• Instant Messaging:

• Reputation:

Digital Citizen: “Digital citizens are PK-12 learners who proactively approach their digital access, participation, and associated rights, accountability and opportunities with empathy, ethics, and a sense of individual, social and civic responsibility.”

Hacker: A hacker is a person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data.

Spyware: Spyware is software that secretly lets someone else get information from your computing device without permission.

Settings: Settings are an option that enables users to set document properties such as privacy, sharing, and access.

Security Patch: A security patch is an update, generally to the operating system, that adds new or improved security measures.

Virus: A virus is a piece of code that is capable of copying itself and typically has a detrimental effect, such as corrupting the system or destroying data

Password recommendation: A password recommendation is eight characters in combinations of letters, numbers, and symbols.

Pop-up ad: A pop-up ad is an advertisement that appears on the screen while a web page loads or after it has loaded.

Personal information: Personal information is information that can personally identify someone, such as their name, email address or billing information, or other data which can be reasonably linked to such information.Credit card fraud: Credit card fraud is the unauthorized use of a credit card.

Scam: A scam is an attempt to trick someone, usually with the intention of stealing money or private information.

Personal identity theft: Personal identity theft happens when someone steals your personal information to commit fraud.

Personal identifiers: These identifiers are personal information about yourself that others can use without your consent or knowledge to steal your identity.

Dossier: A dossier is a collection of documents about a particular person, event, or subject

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Fair Use: Fair Use (in US copyright law) is the doctrine that brief excerpts of copyright material may, under certain circumstances, be quoted verbatim for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, and research, without the need for permission from or payment to the copyright holder.

Copyright: Copyright is the legal right to be the only one to reproduce, publish, and sell a book, musical recording, etc., for a certain period of time.

Public Domain: Public Domain are materials belonging or being available to the public as a whole, and therefore not subject to copyright.

Creative Commons License: A Creative Commons license lets you dictate how others may use your work. The Creative Commons license allows you to keep your copyright but allows others to copy and distribute your work provided they give you credit and only on the conditions you specify.

Citation: A citation is a quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work.

Lyric: A lyric is expressing the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms.

Stanza: A stanza is a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem.

Usage Rights: Usage rights is to obtain the use of copyrighted work

Plagiarism: Plagiarism is the practice of taking/copying someone else’s work or ideas and using that work as your own.

Plagiarism checker: A plagiarism checker is an online tool that searches the Internet to check for duplicated content/material.

Unethical: Unethical is behavior that is improper and not morally acceptable.

Piracy: Piracy is the unauthorized use or reproduction of another's work.

Creative Commons License: A Creative Commons license lets you dictate how others may use your work. The Creative Commons license allows you to keep your copyright but allows others to copy and distribute your work provided they give you credit and only on the conditions you specify.

Attribution: Attribution is giving credit to the person who creates the work.