October 2012 - MicroType 4 or other Keyboarding Program

You already started using the MicroType 4 Keyboarding Program (or other program). I'm hoping that most of you complete up to lesson 10 of the Alphabetic Keyboarding Lessons by Wednesday, October 31st. But, please remember: if you feel that you should repeat some of these lessons, I encourage you to do so. These first lessons are very important! If you are still having difficulties finding the right keys, or using the right fingers, you must definitely repeat them. As you advance, the lessons will get harder and once you get to the Skill Builder Lessons, you must have very good dominion of the Alphabetic Keys. It will be harder for you to do well on timings, if you don't practice a lot and repeat many of these lessons. The first goal is ACCURACY!

Little by little you'll acquire SPEED. But proper technique and fingering are essential! I will check your Lesson Reports often, to see how you're doing and may ask you to repeat some of the Lessons. Check once in a while your Performance Graphs and your Summary Reports.

You can check the following site www.sense-lang.org/typing and use some of the Typing Tutorials there. You can click the red "Lessons" button to Practice touch-typing using random text - for beginners to become familiar with the location of the letters on the keyboard. Also, you may want to click the "My Text" button to add your own text and practice touch-typing using this customized text - insert text from any source and exercise your own preferences (enter the text of the timing in the white box and click Start). You may want to practice Timed Writings 1 - 5 first (one, two or three paragraphs). If you are more advanced, you may practice any of the other timings (6 - 13).

Your PowerPoint "About Me" presentation must be completed by Monday, October 8, 2012. Please print this presentation as Hand-Outs (6 per page). Ask Mrs. Feld if you have any questions. Also, you must save it in Mrs. Feld's flashdrive. She will explain how to save it in the Server (in the Keyboarding 8 - K Drive).