Digital Vocabulary

The secret word you use when signing in to the Internet or an online service that helps to confirm your identity.

• Password
• Software
• Hardware
• Student Account

Many computers that are connected like a web, so you can see what other computers show and you can show them things as well.

• Software
• URL
• Internet
• Hardware

The address of documents and resources on the internet. 

• URL
• Software
• Spam
• Desktop

The physical parts of a computer that includes monitors, keyboards, mice, printers, and scanners.

• Software
• Hardware
• Logon
• Memory

This is the screen that appears if you are not browsing the Internet, reading a file, or playing a game. Your icons are on this screen. 

• Software
• Homepage
• Internet
• Desktop

To do this, you click on something and hold the button down. This will move the object you clicked on and will leave it where you let go of the button.

• Drag and Drop
• Home page
• URL
• Hardware

This is all the instructions for the computer or a program designed to do different things. Examples are: Microsoft Word, Internet Explorer, and Windows. 

• Hardware
• Home page
• Software
• Internet

This is the process where you copy something from another computer or the Internet, and save it on your computer. 

• Download
• Software
• URL
• Icon

This is a small symbol or picture that represents a program or other things.

• Internet
• Logon
• Password
• Icon

Software that was written to do bad stuff to your computer. 

• Virus
• Drag and Drop
• URL
• Password