Keyboarding


 * Welcome to your Keyboarding class webpage! **

Keyboarding Applications is a beginning course. Students will develop and master touch typing on a computer keyboard. The main skill sets of this course are: correct fingering by touch with good techniques, and speed and accuracy. Students will also learn how to use the fourth row numbers and symbols and the 10-key pad. Finally, students will apply new keyboarding skills through a variety of word processing assignments.


 * Main Keyboarding Resource:** The following link will send students to a log-in screen. Students, please use the school log-in and password provided in class, find your class period, select your name, and enter your student number for a password. Our school log-in ID is '**midvalems**.'

Keyboarding Online by Ellsworth Publishing


 * Remember the 1111 class goal: **
 * 1 WPM increase, **
 * 1 Hour, and **
 * 1 Lesson in **
 * 1 Week **


 * 1st Term **

Objectives: 1) Complete a keyboarding pre-test within the first two weeks of class to get a base Words per Minute (WPM) score.

Note: Students may re-take the keyboarding pre-test multiple times. Any student who demonstrates 35+ WPM is a candidate for testing out of Keyboarding Applications.

Important: __Students must be logged-in to their CSDdocs account in order to access the Improvement Plan and Application Assignment online forms__.

2) Complete the first NINE lessons on Keyboarding Online. 3) Complete TWO Improvement Plans. Please use the following link for an online form: Improvement Plan Form. 4) Student partnerships help each other complete TWO Peer Feedback observations each week. 5) Complete a total of at least THREE Application Assignments before the end of the term. 6) Complete the Improvement Plan: Results (Self-Assessment) form when instructed.


 * 2nd Term **


 * Please keep in mind this term: **
 * 35+ WPM and 6 errors or less during a 3-Minute Timing. **

Note: Start as early as you can on Application Assignments. Please talk with the instructor concerning especially large projects, as these larger projects can count for multiple Application Assignments.

Important: __Students must be logged-in to their CSDdocs account in order to access the Improvement Plan and Application Assignment online forms__.

Objectives: 1) Continue Keyboarding Online lessons. One new lesson per week OR one lesson review per week. 2) Complete TWO Improvement Plans. Each improvement plan includes a first interview with a follow-up directed by the instructor OR a Self-Assessment. Please use the following link for an online form: Improvement Plan Form. 3) Get re-evaluated by the instructor for individual typing posture and technique. 4) Complete a total of at least SIX Application Assignments before the end of the term.


 * UPDATE to the class goal: **
 * 1 WPM increase, **
 * 1 Hour, **
 * 1 Lesson, and **
 * 1 Application Assignment in **
 * 1 Week **


 * So, we now have the 11111 class goal. **


 * 3rd Term **

Note: Start as early as you can on Application Assignments. Please talk with the instructor concerning especially large projects, as these larger projects can count for multiple Application Assignments.

Important: __Students must be logged-in to their CSDdocs account in order to access the Improvement Plan and Application Assignment online forms__.

Objectives: 1) Continue Keyboarding Online lessons. One new lesson per week OR one lesson review per week. 2) Complete TWO Improvement Plans. Each improvement plan includes a first interview with a follow-up directed by the instructor OR a Self-Assessment. Please use the following link for an online form: Improvement Plan Form. 3) Complete a total of at least TEN Application Assignments before the end of the term. 4) Get final evaluations by the instructor for individual typing posture and technique.


 * Remember the 11111 class goal: **
 * 1 WPM increase, **
 * 1 Hour, **
 * 1 Lesson, and **
 * 1 Application Assignment in **
 * 1 Week **


 * 4thTerm **

Note: Start as early as you can on Application Assignments. Please talk with the instructor concerning especially large projects, as these larger projects can count for multiple Application Assignments.

Important: __Students must be logged-in to their CSDdocs account in order to access the Improvement Plan and Application Assignment online forms__.

Objectives: 1) Continue Keyboarding Online lessons. One new lesson per week OR one lesson review per week. 2) Complete TWO Improvement Plans. Each improvement plan includes a first interview with a follow-up directed by the instructor OR a Self-Assessment. Please use the following link for an online form: Improvement Plan Form. 3) Complete a total of at least TEN Application Assignments before the end of the term. 4) Get final evaluations by the instructor for individual typing posture and technique.


 * Remember the 11111 class goal: **
 * 1 WPM increase, **
 * 1 Hour, **
 * 1 Lesson, and **
 * 1 Application Assignment in **
 * 1 Week **

__**When I am Done with My Lessons**__


 * Creativity and Productivity Tools:** The following list of tools are for use anytime in class when the instructor is done presenting or evaluating student learning or students complete the daily assignment(s).

1) Word Collage Making sites:
 * Tagul
 * Wordle

2) Composition:
 * Utah Compose Graphic Organizers
 * CSDdocs.org > New > Google Doc, Sheets, Slides


 * Keyboarding Games:** The following list of games are __for use only on Thursday or Friday__ class sessions.

1) The site must be educational. 2) The site must have school appropriate advertisements or no advertisements.
 * Sense Lang
 * [|Typing Club]
 * Nitro Type
 * [|BBC's Dance Mat Typing]
 * FunToType
 * [|Spider Typer]
 * [|Finger Frenzy]
 * [|Gyroshi]
 * [|Type Master]
 * [|Arachnid Falls]
 * [|The Typing Playground]
 * [|Only Typing Games]
 * [|Typing Practice]
 * [|Typing Colors and Shapes]
 * [|10 Fast Fingers Speed Test]
 * __[|Big Brown Bear]__
 * __Word Games__

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