This course will help you improve your digital literacy. Whether you use the computer for doing school assignments, chatting with friends or playing on-line games, the focus here is to improve your digital literacy. We'll begin by developing an appreciation of the technology that surrounds us. In your word-processor, create a file called computer terms and save in your work folder. All words below should be defined in this file. Sometimes you are given the definition. Start by using your internet access and a web browser. Navigate to this site. Once there find a short, working definition of digital literacy. Add it to your computer terms file. here are many elements comprising including many technical terms. Some, like computer, you'll be familiar with. Other terms such as hardware and software may need some explanation to see where everything fits.
Use the sites below to find definitions for the following terms:
Personal Computer, Hardware, Software, Motherboard, CPU, Random Access Memory (RAM), Hard Drive, CD-ROM, DVD, Sound Card, Video Card, Modem, Helvetica, USB, Infrastructure, Network (of computers), Internet, Intranet, World Wide Web.
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