6th Keyboarding
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:
6th Grade:
- 15 Words per Minute and 85% 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
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvvQUS4ihnI[/youtube]
Introduction to Computers and Keyboarding
Keyboarding Resources
Click here to access a variety of different keyboarding websites.
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.