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An in-depth course that teaches students the typing skills needed to learn proper keyboarding technique.
The typing platform was created with new-to-keyboarding students in mind. This course supports students in improving their typing skills with the support of each lesson, assessment, and paragraph practice opportunity. As they enhance their keyboarding skills, they will grow to be faster, more accurate, and more productive typers that experience less fatigue in their keyboarding experiences.
Learning Outcomes:
Students are introduced to why proper keyboarding is important and what the home row is. They complete their introduction with a typing pre-assessment for data tracking throughout the course.
Topics covered:
Introduction
Home Row
Pre-Assessment
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Learning Outcomes:
Students are introduced to the home row typing keys and practice each key with the correct keyboarding technique in these in-depth activities.
Topics covered:
f j
Space Bar
d k
f j d k
Target: f j d k
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Learning Outcomes:
Students are introduced to the top row typing keys and practice each key with the correct keyboarding technique in these in-depth activities.
Topics covered:
r u
e i
r u e i
Target: r u e i
w o
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Learning Outcomes:
Students practice the home and top row keys with the correct keyboarding technique in these in-depth activities.
Topics covered:
Home and Top Row Practice
Target: Home Row + Top Row
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Learning Outcomes:
Students are introduced to the bottom row typing keys and practice each key with the correct keyboarding technique in these in-depth activities.
Topics covered:
v b
n m
c ,
v b n m c ,
Target: v b n m c ,
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Learning Outcomes:
Students put their home, top, and bottom row keyboarding skills to the test with these basic practice sentence activities.
Topics covered:
Basic Practice
Enter/Return
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Learning Outcomes:
Students are introduced to the home row typing keys while using the shift key and practice each key with the correct keyboarding technique in these in-depth activities.
Topics covered:
F J
D K
F J D K
Target: F J D K
S L
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Learning Outcomes:
Students are introduced to the top row typing keys while using the shift key and practice each key with the correct keyboarding technique in these in-depth activities.
Topics covered:
T Y
G H T Y
Target: G H T Y
R U
E I
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Learning Outcomes:
Students are introduced to the bottom row typing keys while using the shift key and practice each key with the correct keyboarding technique in these in-depth activities.
Topics covered:
V M
C ?
V M C ?
Target: V M C ?
Z N
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Learning Outcomes:
Students practice typing the 300 most common words in the English language in these word watcher lessons.
Topics covered:
Common Words
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Learning Outcomes:
Students build keyboarding muscle memory by practicing these commonly typed word patterns.
Topics covered:
-the
-ing
-tion
-est
AND
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Learning Outcomes:
Students review and learn how to correctly type the most common punctuation used when typing.
Topics covered:
. , Review
? Review
Exclamation mark (!)
Exclamation mark (!) and question mark (?)
Target: . , ? !
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Learning Outcomes:
Students are introduced to the number keys and practice each key with the correct keyboarding technique in these in-depth activities.
Topics covered:
4 and 7
5 and 6
3 and 8
2 and 9
1 and 0
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Learning Outcomes:
Students use all of the keyboarding skills they have learned thus far to complete these sentence activities.
Topics covered:
Sentence Practice
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Learning Outcomes:
Students are introduced to more symbol keys and practice each key with the correct keyboarding technique in these in-depth activities.
Topics covered:
Target: - _ + =
Target: $ & % ^
Target: " ' [ ]
Target: @ ~ < >
Post-Assessment
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Learning Outcomes:
Students exercise their keyboarding skills in these paragraph practice activities.
Topics covered:
Paragraph Practice Prompts
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Learning Outcomes:
Students exercise their keyboarding skills in these paragraph practice activities.
Topics covered:
Paragraph Practice Prompts
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Learning Outcomes:
Students exercise their keyboarding skills in these paragraph practice activities.
Topics covered:
Paragraph Practice Prompts
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Learning Outcomes:
Students exercise their keyboarding skills in these paragraph practice activities.
Topics covered:
Paragraph Practice Prompts
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Learning Outcomes:
Students exercise their keyboarding skills in these paragraph practice activities.
Topics covered:
Paragraph Practice Prompts
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Learning Outcomes:
Students exercise their keyboarding skills in these paragraph practice activities.
Topics covered:
Paragraph Practice Prompts
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Learning Outcomes:
Students exercise their keyboarding skills in these paragraph practice activities.
Topics covered:
Paragraph Practice Prompts
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Learning Outcomes:
Students exercise their keyboarding skills in these paragraph practice activities.
Topics covered:
Paragraph Practice Prompts
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Learning Outcomes:
Students exercise their keyboarding skills in these paragraph practice activities.
Topics covered:
Paragraph Practice Prompts
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Learning Outcomes:
Students exercise their keyboarding skills in these paragraph practice activities.
Topics covered:
Paragraph Practice Prompts
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Learning Outcomes:
Students extend their keyboarding practice with these programming syntax introductory lessons.
Topics covered:
Tags
Tags with < > /
AND
Tags with - and =
: and " "
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Learning Outcomes:
Students use their keyboarding skills to learn basic HTML programming in these activities.
Topics covered:
HTML tags
Heading
Text Color
Font
Structure
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Learning Outcomes:
Students use their keyboarding skills to learn basic JavaScript programming in these activities.
Topics covered:
Variable
String Value
Integer Value
Boolean Value
Console log
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Learning Outcomes:
Students use their keyboarding skills to learn basic Python programming in these activities.
Topics covered:
Variables
Input/Output
Comments
String Value
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