Transitions

The visual motion when one slide changes to the next during a Power point presentation.

Slide Sorter view

A window that displays thumbnail versions of all your slides, arranged in horizontal rows. This view is useful to make global changes to several slides at one time.

Slide Show View

The view used for presenting to an audience. The whole screen is taken over by your PowerPoint 2007 presentation.

Slide Master

The Slide Master controls the overall formatting and object placement for the presentation — font type, size, color, background color, graphics and certain special effects.

Slide Layout

A layout contains placeholders, which in turn hold text such as titles and bulleted lists and slide content such as tables, charts, pictures, shapes, and clip art.

Slide Finder

A quick way to find specific slides in any of your Power point presentations.

Slide Design

(self-explanatory) The tool to choose the type of design for a slide in Microsoft Power Point.

Presentation

The practice of showing and explaining the content of a topic to an audience. A Program such as Microsoft Power point is often used to create the presentation content.

PlaceHolder

Placeholders are boxes with dotted borders that contain content and reside within a slide layout. All built-in slide layouts contain content placeholders.

Normal View

the main working window in the presentation.The slide is shown full size on the screen. This view is more commonly known as Slide View.

Exit Effect

an effect which plays when the object starts disappearing at the end of its duration

Clip Organizer

Clip Organizer arranges and catalogs clip art and other media files stored on your hard disk.

Thumbnails

Thumbnails are mini-sized pictures on a computer, used to help in recognizing and organizing them.

Thesaurus

As you may know a thesaurus is a book containing a list of synonyms. In MS word the thesaurus is a tool that shows you synonyms of the selected word.

Template

Templates are ready-made forms that include standard text and spaces to fill-in-the-blanks with standard information. Templates saves time since each person does not have to create the document format on their own.

A character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character

Style (MS Word)

A style is a set of formatting characteristics, such as font name, size, color, paragraph alignment and spacing. Some styles even include borders and shading.

Sizing handles

The sizing handle is a graphical indicator in a Graphical User Interface that allows users to click and drag on the indicator to resize the object.

Hard column break

A tool used to split columns into numerous columns.

Graphics

A drawing or picture; A computer-generated image as viewed on a screen forming part of a game, film, or document.

Header and Footer

A header or footer is text or other information such as graphics that is stored at the top or bottom of the page throughout your document. You can use the same header and footer throughout a document or change the header and footer for part of the document.

Footnote and End Note

A tool that enables you to insert citations into Microsoft Word. EndNote allows you to insert graphics and create links to pdf documents, use predefined manuscript templates and export a traveling library from Microsoft Word into an EndNote library.

Drawing objects

Use Drawing objects when you create clip art, paint with a Drawing Brush, or use Visual objects. Drawing object describes visible content, such as a shape, video, or a line of text. Different types of drawings describe different types of content.

Drawing Canvas

A tool on MS word. It is a frame-like environment that helps you insert and arrange a drawing or drawings in your document.

Desktop Publishing

To create professional looking documents using a personal computer.

Crop

To cut out unneeded parts of an image or a page

Clip Art

A ready made pieces of art that can be used to decorate documents.

Banner

An advertisement that appears in web sites. They are usually animated and rectangular.

Do Now 4/16/10

Every button on Insert Tab in MS word:
Table, Picture, Clip art, Shapes, Smart art, Chart
Hyper link, Bookmark, Cross Reference
Header, Footer, Page Number
Text Box, Quick parts, Word art, Signature line,
Date, time, Object, Equation, and symbol

Do Now: 4/15/10

Table: A tool used in Microsoft Word to display organized information using cells rows and columns. Shown to the left.
Cell: Where the information is displayed in the table. The arrow on the left is pointing to it.
Row: The line of cells going left to right.
Column: The line of cells going up and down. Highlighted on the second table.

Window

A rectangular area used to display a program, message, or data

Scroll Bar

Horizontal and vertical bars that allow you to see parts of the display not currently visible

Menus

Drop-down lists containing commands that can be executed

Pointing Device

A mouse or trackball used to select objects, such as icons or text

Pointer

An on-screen symbol showing the current position of the mouse

Do Now 3/24/10

1 - 110000 = 48
2 - 101011 = 43
3 - 11111 = 31
4 - 56 = 111000
5 - 192 = 11000000
6 - 512 = 1000000000

Maximize

The small button on the top right of a window that lets you maximize the window.

Icons

A simple picture that represents a program, command or data file.

Folder

A file that can contain multiple documents and other files.

Desktop

The interface that is shown when the computer is finished starting up. Usually has icons and windows

10 steps to making Cofee

Ten steps to making Coffee

1 - Make sure you have "instant coffee"
2- Take out instant coffee
3 - Get a cup of water or milk
5 - Pour desired amount of coffee into water/milk
6 - Stir until coffee is dissolved
7 - Pour desired amount of sugar
8 - Taste
9 - If you think it needs more Instant Coffee, sugar, milk or water add more
10 - Enjoy

Vocabulary Words

Algorithm - Step by step instructions needed to finish a task.

Applications software - A program that was made to do a specific task.

Boot - A process that starts the computer's operating system when the computer is turned on.

Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) - Something that allows people to use a program/computer with more ways than typing.

Language translators - Programs that translates program code into machine code so the computer can understand.

MS-DOS - ( Microsoft Disk Operating System ) A operating system created by Microsoft for PC's

Multitasking - To do more than one thing at a time. To run more than one program on computers.

Network operating system - A operating system made to share data and communicate between computers

Operating system - A software that controls hardware and basic system operations for a computer.

Software development - The set of activities that result in making a software.

Systems software - A Software that eases the use of a computer system

Unix - An operating system for a computer that is capable of handling activity from multiple users. It is the most common OS for servers on the Internet

User interface - The product's user friendly design, like menus, click-able images and drag and drop

Utility software - Programs that keep the computer organized and clean

What are the parts in a Computer?

The parts of a computer are the mother board, memory, hard disk, power supply, graphic card, disk drive and modem.

Five types of computers are Pc (Personal Computer), Desktop, Laptop, PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), and workstation computers.

What is the difference between Hardware and Software

Hardware and Software have many differences. Hardware is something you can touch, like a computer monitor or a mouse. Software is a program in the computer, like Internet Explorer and Windows.

What is a computer?

A computer is a device that can input information, process the information and then output the resulting data. A computer can use, store and transmit data.

My expectations for Digital World

My expectations for Digital World class is to be very educational and entertaining. I expect to get a good grade in this class. I expect my classmates and I to be good and well-behaved students. I also expect to learn many things about computers and the internet.