Skip to main content

IMI Level 2 Interactivity

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

This involves the recall of more information than a level 1 and allows the student more control over the lesson scenario through screen icons and other peripherals, such as light pens or touch screens. Typically level 2 is used for non-complex operations and maintenance lessons. Simple emulations or simulations are presented to the user. As an example, the user is requested to rotate switches, turn dials, make adjustments, or identify and replace a faulted component as part of a procedure.

Interactive Multimedia Instruction (IMI)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

A group of predominantly interactive, electronically delivered training. IMI products include instructional software and software management tools used in support of instructional programs. IMI products are teaching and management tools and may be used in combination or individually. Used individually, not all IMI products can be considered interactive, multimedia, or instructional. However, IMI products, when used in combination with one another, are interactive, multimedia, and instructional. IMI technology is one of the primary technologies to be used in distance learning. 

suppression firing

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Intentional application of fire to speed up or strengthen fire suppression action on wildfires. Types of suppression firing include burning out, counter firing, and strip burning.

spot burning

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

A modified form of broadcast slash burning in which the greater accumulations of slash are fired and the fire is confined to these spots.

jackpot burn

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

A fire treatment type. A prescribed fire to deliberately burn natural or modified concentrations (jackpots) of wildland fuels under specified environmental conditions, which allows the fire to be confined to a predetermined area and produces the fireline intensity and rate of spread required to attain planned resource Management Objectives.

residual smoke

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Smoke produced by smoldering material. The flux of smoke originating well after the active flaming combustion period with little or no vertical buoyancy and, therefore, most susceptible to subsidence inversions and down-valley flows.

Subscribe to

NWCG Latest Announcements