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Basic Keyboarding Skills. Designed by Nancy Acuña Nancy.Acuna@utb.edu. Introduction .
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Basic Keyboarding Skills Designed by Nancy Acuña Nancy.Acuna@utb.edu
Introduction Welcome to Basic Keyboarding Skills Course. In this course, you will learn, focus and gain keyboarding knowledge and skills. Students will be able to practice and establish goals in order to improve speed and accuracy. In order to gain speed and accuracy the students will needs t have patience and self discipline.
Good Techniques Good techniques is the most important skill any beginning typist can learn. The good techniques are: • Feet flat on floor • Back straight and sitting up tall • Wrist straight and not touching keyboard • Fingers curved • Arms closed to the body • Strikes keys with proper finger • Memorization of letters
Activities The following assignments need to be accomplished in order to gain speed and accuracy: • Daily Drills – Each class session students will receive a daily drill
Activities • Alphabet Typists – Students will type the alphabet as quickly as possible with their eyes closed. • Find the “Bump” key – Students will close their eyes and try to find the correct finger placement on the keyboard by locating and putting the correct fingers on the “bump” keys. • Keyboard copy – I will use a keyboard chart to explain the layout of the keyboard to students and placement of hands.
Student Evaluation • Each student will be evaluating themselves. The student evaluation will tell each individual student in which area they need to improve.
Faculty Evaluation I will be evaluating each individual student weekly. This evaluation will let me know if the student has advance in their keyboarding skills. By the end of the course the student will be able to accomplish all the course objective goals.