Keyboarding+BUS6151

Keyboarding is a HIGH SCHOOL one-semester (18 week), one-half credit course. The course is designed for students to develop and enhance touch skills for entering alphabetic, numeric, and symbolic information on a keyboard. Students will be required to take a final exam.



Access to Extra Computer Time: All Edutyping Lessons are required to be completed on desktop computers at school unless other arrangements have been made by the teacher. Mrs. Vinikoff has specific days available for Keyboarding in room 308A. The times and dates are listed on her wikispace. http://pams-vinikoff.wikispaces.com

__ Please review the complete Course Expectations with your son/daughter. This course is taught no differently than if I was to walk into a high school classroom to teach. Keyboarding requires students to be diligent with their time management to complete their lessons and assignments in a timely fashion. __

Attendance is very important. Students are not permitted to exceed more than twelve absences or they automatically fail the course. Just like it is with any other high school course.

In today's current world of technology, many students have already been introduced and have had interaction with a QWERTY keyboard. Old habits will have to be discontinued and new habits created. Keyboarding is a skill and just like all skills correct techniques must be taught and practiced in order for the skill to continually improve. Keyboarding is a cumulative psychomotor skill involving the touch method of inputting information. For touch typing skills to be useful, the process must become automatic and students must reach a speed at least equivalent to their handwriting speed. Practice, Practice and more Practice. It is no different than learning a sport, a musical instrument or any other skill requiring repetition to be successful.

More than fifty percent of the workforce uses a computer in its daily job. Students will greatly benefit from knowing how to keyboard properly and effectively.