Are you ready? Review Questions for the MTT Exam

Question Someone on your technology planning team brings up the fact that some teachers use the standard Internet connected, multimedia computers in their rooms very little, while others who want to produce and edit video need more computing power than the standard classroom machines provide. Considering how much computers cost, what would be a possible way to remedy this problem for the long term? A.remove machines from rooms where they are used little, sell them, and buy more RAM for the video machines B.consider using thin client devices in rooms with small demand, and use the savings to upgrade video machines preferentially in the replacement cycle C.put video machines in one room and let teachers trade classrooms when they do video projects D.reduce the number of machines replaced in the yearly cycle and buy only high end video machines from now on

Answer A. autotext B. a custom template C. tables and borders D. autoformat A school librarian plans to create a printed monthly newsletter for faculty and administrators to call their attention to new library acquisitions, interesting journal articles, upcoming educational television programs, and the like. Which of the following features available in most integrated software applications would most facilitate this effort

Which of the following should not be included when a student cites an Internet source for a research paper? A. date of web page was copyrighted B. date of web page access by student C. page number of article where information cited is located D. web page title

Students in a middle school language arts class are using the mobile wireless cart and laptops for a research project that will take several class periods. The teacher is concerned that the students will lose track of the websites they find and not be able to compile a reliable bibliography. The MTT suggests A. printing all the pages each student wants to cite with dates and urls on them B. repeatedly remind students to carefully write down the urls and other citation information C. show students how to keep a word processor document open where they can paste urls and other citation information as they work D. show students how to bookmark pages and make sure each student gets the same laptop every time they work E. Use a social bookmarking site to collect URLs

There is an enormous quantity of clip art available for teachers to use in instructional presentations or web pages. If you were advising teachers as the MTT, what would you stress about choosing graphics? A. The graphics should always be colorful B. Graphics are seldom distracting to students, so use as many as you wish. C. Graphics should add informational content or enhance meaning D. Graphics that are small should be enlarged even if they lose detail.

The human brain has the general tendency to quickly scan in a roughly z-shaped path from upper left to lower right when a viewer looks at(47C1) A. a printed page B. a projection screen C. a web page D. all these

Tweening requires that you identify A. audio files without static B. beginning and ending key frames C. separate video tracks D. beginning and ending transitions

If you are working with an image made up of several layers, you can increase the opacity of the top layer if you want to A. make the image brighter B. make the image clearer C. decrease the visibility of lower layers D. increase the visibility of lower layers

Some social studies teachers are compiling a geography website on which they have placed animated graphics of waving flags of the featured countries. The graphic is square, but all of it except the waving flag is transparent allowing for the page background to show through. For their future reference you want them to know that this property is characteristic of a(n)(5VC5) Answer A. html graphic B. JPEG C. BMP D. GIF

Question The 4th grade science teacher approaches you about her desire to include technology in an upcoming lesson. Your first step would be: A. Tell the teacher about science technology that is available at your school so she can choose what she wants to try. B. Direct the teacher to an online bank of lesson plans so she can pick one to use. C. Set up a time to review the teacher’s tech skills, so you’ll know what she should learn to do next. D. Help the teacher use her instructional goals as a starting point for choosing appropriate teaching methods and possible media and materials.

Question The rule for presentations refers to: A. no more than: 6 words/line, 6 lines/slide, 6 text slides without a graphic one B. 6 seconds/slide, 6 slides/section, 6 actions/slide C. no smaller than 6 pt text, no more than 6 font styles, no more than 6 animations/slide D. no more than 6 hyperlinks, no video shorter than 6 seconds, no more than 6 animation effects

Question As the MTT you are considering suggesting that a teacher plan a hypermedia project for his elementary students. To help the teacher understand the merits of hypermedia you explain that hypermedia projects: A.should be cooperative projects, and elementary students learn best that way B.allow students to develop technology skills they will need in the workplace C.Provide the learning experience and an end product for assessment. D.are more interesting than other kinds of assignments

Question Over the years a teacher has accumulated a large quantity of test questions for her world history course. She gives a comprehensive exam at the end of each semester and would like to draw a selection of questions from the test bank for the exams. How would you suggest she manage these questions? A.Prepare a spreadsheet that contains the questions and information about the unit and years she has used each question. B.Put the questions into a database that can be sorted by date or instructional unit. C.Put the questions into a hyperlinked document in which each year page has links to the questions in it D.Put the questions into a word processing document that can be searched by the Find command.

Question The MTT is consulting with a teacher as she writes a rubric to evaluate a multimedia project she is planning for her students. She wants to include criteria for the successful use of technology and wants some suggestions from the MTT. What would the MTT probably not include? A. The students can critique the technical aspects as well as the contents of their peer’s projects. B. The students are able to list from memory the menu selections for executing procedures to add animation to their slides C. The students can apply principals of good design independently. D. The students can present their projects following the guidelines for effective public speaking.

Question The advantage of intelligent tutor software over teacher-made tutorials is that the intelligent tutors A. can respond to student’s questions B. vary future content based on the nature of past student responses C. cannot be used for review D. cannot be displayed to the whole class

Question Mr. Karp teaches high school American history. Most of his grades come from objective weekly quizzes and end of chapter tests. The MTT has suggested that a more student- centered classroom would have more success, but the teacher is not sure how to evaluate students in that teaching environment. The MTT suggests A.putting the weekly quizzes into presentation form so that student attention will be centered on the screen. B.showing the teacher how to put scores into a spreadsheet that will calculate grades with weighted scores and measure central tendencies C.giving students options in what they study or how they represent what they’ve learned D.letting one student a week sit in the center of the first row and call on others to explain their quiz answers.

Question A high school language arts teacher is teaching a unit on media literacy. In one lesson she explores the question “What is advertising?” by asking her students to do a student-centered project. Which of the following is not one of her assignments? A. Student pairs watch a popular TV show or movie, look for products that are subtly advertised by their placement on the screen, and analyze their findings with respect to audience demographics. They compile a presentation of video clips. B. Student teams videotape commercials for similar products and analyze them through comparison and contrast. They create a presentation for the class. C. Students individually write a report about the founder of a well known company such as Coke or Nike. They print the report and hand it in. D. Students collect advertising examples of a product from print, tv, and retail displays and use them to design advertising for a fictitious product of their own. They create a 30 second commercial.

Question Your administrator asks you for your recommendations for equipping a mobile video production center that could be shared by several teachers. In addition to a high end computer with the capacity to edit, render and save videos and a digital video camera, you also suggest: A.nothing. These will be enough for a good product B.lights, a tripod, and an external microphone C.a key, fill, and back light D.a zoom track, a viewfinder, and a teleprompter