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Ergonomics: Is the study of workers' interactions with their working environment.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS): a disorder of the hand and wrist characterized by pain, weakness, and numbness in the thumb and other fingers; the most common ergonomic related injury in North America.

Collaboration: working together toward a goal in a way that allows everyone involved to contribute his/her strengths whereby teamwork works better and problems are solved sooner.

Competencies: skills, knowledge and behaviours that can be classified into categories.

Free cycling: A new alternative bringing unwanted items to a landfill by trading or giving away the items online through a network of people.

Information Communication Technology (ICT): the range of technologies that are used for gathering storing, retrieving, processing analyzing and transmitting information.

Keyboard: a device containing type writer like keys that enable users to enter data into a computer.

Monitors: device that provide visual displays of computers’ outputs.

Musculoskeletal Injuries (MSI’s) OR Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI’s): ergonomic related injuries that occur when people perform the same tasks over and over, damaging nerves, muscles, tendons, or other body tissues also called repetitive strain injuries (RSI’s).

Portfolios: collection of work samples created by an individual or group over a period of time.

Wiki: A type of website that allows users to add, remove, edit and change content.

Wiki Farm: Allows users to create individual wikis.

BIOS: A computer program that includes instructions allowing the CPU to interface with other hardware devices before the operating system is loaded; it is hard-coded onto a chip on the motherboard at the time of manufacture; acronym for Basic Input/Outlet.  Bits: The smallest units of data computer can us, with a value of 0 or 1; short for binary digits.

Bus: A set of conductor wires that transport data among components inside the computer through an electric path.

Bytes: the units of memory needed to store one character (example: letter, umber, or punctuation mark); equivalent to eight bits of binary code.

Cache: a fast storage area in the central processing unit of a computer that stores recently accessed data (example: the Internet Browser stores a copy of the websites visited in sych a storage area); see also CPU.

CD’s (compact discs): small, round, plastic discs on which information such as audio, video, text, and other data can be stored and retrieved in digital form.

Client/Server Network: a computer network arrangement that designates one computer the leader (server) of all the other computers in the network (clients or nodes), and in which the clients communicate with each other through the server; the leader is often bigger, faster, and more powerful and can run the network operating system software; see also network, nodes, operating-system software.

Command Driven Interface: an interface in which user enters commands bykeying tehm in; see also menu-driven interface.

Conductor Wires: wires that supply electronic paths for the transport of data between the components of the computer.

CPU (central processing unit): the main computer chip that processes instructions, calculates data, and manages the flow of the information in the computer; the “brains” of the computer, where most calculations take place; also called a processor, central processor, or microprocessor.

Data: raw, unprocessed information such as numbers, characters, or symbols Decode: translate or interpret data into ordinary language; produce an output when fed by certain inputs.

Desktop: the primary screen users see as soon as they start their computer (if their computer has a graphic user interface) or when they have turned the computer on but not have opened up any software applications; also the physical type of computer case.

Directory: an index of computer files in storage, typically containing the file names and file-related information (eg: file sizes creation dates); search engine catalogue that classifies search results for users to access general information about a topic.

Document: information imput by user’s thorugh a software-application program (eg: a report keyed using a work processing program, a graph made in a spreadsheet program, an image created in a graphics program); also called data files.

Drive Bays: slots in the computer case where discs drives are housed; also called disk dirves.

DSL (Digital Subscriber Line): a technology allowing high-speed data transfer over ordinary copper telephone lines using special modems.

DVD’s (Digital Versatile/Video Discs): optical discs that can store 4.7 GB (compared to just 700 MB for CD’s) of digital information (eg: text documents, music, or digitally recorded movies).