Teaching Keyboarding: More Than Just Typing (Education World)"Times have changed. Schools can no longer prepare students for the workplace of the future without providing them with skills necessary for using computers competently. One of those necessary skills is, of course, keyboarding." Read More
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Touch Typing TechniqueHere's a site that does a nice job explaining Touch Typing, fingering rules, sage advice, and correct position of the hands and body.
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BBC Fat Finegrs
A simple typing error has triggered mayhem on the Tokyo stock exchange and cost one bank £190m. But in a world where almost everyone now is expected to type, how many of us really can? Read More...
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Practice, Practice, Practice - Muscle MemoryMuscle memory is teaching your brain motor skills through repetition. Motor skills are muscle and nerve functions such as writing, tying shoes, walking, running, kicking, and keyboarding. You can build muscle memory through practice. Below (left) is a video about keyboarding and muscle memory. Below (right) are a list of videos that talk about the importance of muscle memory in other areas.
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You Don't Type Alone
Fun video about keyboarding from VSauce.
This is a sculpture of a keyboard where the keys are at a height based on their popularity compared to the other letters (as seen in the above VSauce video).
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Have you ever wondered why the keys are laid out the way they are?
The QWERTY keyboard was designed in the 1800s for mechanical typewriters and was actually designed to slow typists down. If typists typed too fast, the type hammers would move up and down so quickly that they would get jammed.
A typewriter is what people used before there were computers to generate type written documents. It is a mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic device with a set of "keys" that, when pressed, cause characters to be printed on paper. The above photos show an older mechanical typewriter. |
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