Touch Typing Keyboarding Skills

5 Benefits of Touch Typing:

1.  Typing Speed

  • Drastically improve your typing speed
  • More attractive to employers
  • More efficient and save you time

2.  Time

  • Increase typing speed cuts down amount of time to accomplish simple tasks
  • Direct focus to other priorities

3.  Focus

  • Rely on motor memory rather than sight to type
  • Direct your focus on the screen instead of the keyboard

4.  Health

  • Learn proper way to sit and cultivate better habits
  • Relax your body and energy levels will stay consistent throughout the day
  • Adapt healthy computer habits to reduce risk of injury and provide increase comfort

5.  Touch typing improves productivity

  • work and personal life will be much more productive
  • typing at the speed of your speech and get more done during your day.

Keyboarding Expectations:—

—7th Grade:

  • —22 Words per Minute and 90% Accuracy

8th Grade:

  • 30 Words per Minute and 90% Accuracy

—Keyboarding Goals:

Students will:

1.  Develop keyboarding skills at the computer using proper techniques:

  • Eyes on copy
  • Hands on home row
  • Elbows in, wrists level with hands
  • Feet flat on the floor
  • Not looking at your hands or the keys while keying

2.  Drill and practice conscientiously during every class.
3.  Develop a positive attitude toward keyboarding and use it whenever possible.
4.  Students should type all reports assigned in other classes to utilize the skill being learned.

Keyboarding Documents

Blank Keyboard

Finger Chart

Finger Placement

Proper Keyboarding Technique (Power Point Presentation)

Introduction to Computers and Keyboarding (Video)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvvQUS4ihnI[/youtube]

Keyboarding Resources

Click here to access a variety of different keyboarding websites.

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