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Teaching Typing - Memorizing Keys & Checklists
Memorizing the location of the typing keys sounds fearsome. However, this can turn this into an enjoyable challenge by asking learners to write in the characters on a picture of a keyboard.
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If you ask a learner to “memorize the keyboard,” they will immediately lose interest in the learning process. What can be a fun experience becomes a tension activity. Of course, you could explain that they have to learn the key location in order to type without looking at the keyboard, but all that will do is frighten them.
Do you want to challenge students/learners to learn the keyboard? Perhaps the best “attention grabber” is asking the learner to complete a picture of a standard typing keyboard by writing in the key character in the correct location.
NimbleFingers.com has provided free pictures of the complete typing keyboard. and pictures with the characters blanked out. People tend to look at the picture of the keyboard with the key character shown, and think nothing of it. But, when asked to complete the picture of the keyboard by identifying the characters blanked out, it’s a whole new ball game.
Nimblefingers.com gives you free copyright privileges to use these pictures in any manner desired. Print the pictures on a decent printer, then photocopy and distribute them to typing students as a study aid. Ask them to fill in the missing characters on the blank keys and watch them start scratching their head. Or use the keyboard pictures yourself when learning touch typing.
Touch typing consists of typing by thinking the character, and your finger automatically strikes the correct key. You are developing a motor reflex pattern whereby your brain has trained your fingers to do its bidding. Thus, people who know touch typing can increase their intellectual efficiency on the task at hand. They can devote full concentration to the task, and let their “fingers do the typing” without conscious thought of the keystroke involved.
Pastte the appropriate below URL in your browser. If you have trouble with that, then go to the website at http://www.nimblefingers.com/k_tools.asp
Horizontal pictures (85k landscape jpg files) prints the keyboard in the top third of a standard 8 ½ “ by 11” typing paper. These include:
[1] A full picture of the complete keyboard
http://www.nimblefingers.com/n_graphics/k_all.jpg
[2] A picture of the typing keyboard with everything blanked out. Only the g and h keys are identified to provide a reference point. This demonstrates the need to learn the location of all the characters on the keyboard.
http://www.nimblefingers.com/n_graphics/k_none.jpg
Vertical pictures (130k portrait jpg files) print the keyboard using the full 8 ½ “ by 11” typing paper. These include:
[3] A full picture of the complete keyboard
http://www.nimblefingers.com/n_graphics/k_all_r.jpg
[4] A picture of the typing keyboard with everything blanked out. Only the g and h keys are identified to provide a reference point. This demonstrates the need to learn the location of all the characters on the keyboard.
http://www.nimblefingers.com/n_graphics/k_none_r.jpg
Another teaching tool and technique for typing teachers is the Typing Checklist
When first learning to type, there are a lot of things to remember. Use this checklist to chart your own progress in learning touch typing. Or if you are teaching typing, why not print and distribute this to your typing students?
NimbleFingers.com gives you free copyright privileges to use this typing checklist. However, if you use the list for commercial applications, please acknowledge that the checklist came from http://www.nimblefingers.com/k_list.asp . This web location provides a pre-formatted, ready-to-print version of the Typing Checklist which you might want to use.
Typing Checklist
Topic Needs About Great
Work Right Job
Keystroke Patterns
Strikes keys with quick motion. [] [] []
Types with a steady, even rhythm. [] [] []
Strikes Enter key without looking. [] [] []
Keeps fingers on home row keys. [] [] []
Strives for accuracy. [] [] []
Typing Posture
Sits erect. [] [] []
Feet flat on floor [] [] []
Wrists up. [] [] []
Elbows in. [] [] []
Typing Attitude
Follows directions. [] [] []
Completes exercises on time. [] [] []
Is prepared for class. [] [] []
Has work area organized. [] [] []
Has work well organized. [] [] []
Has a good attitude. [] [] []
Happy Keyboarding - The Little Professor
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