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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

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Changing the appearance of a part of the screen display to make it stand out. For example, in a document, this means to emphasise in some way a part of the text, typically by selecting with the mouse a part of the data, and displaying it in inverse video, white on black, so that you can see what is selected.

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