Keyboarding and Software Skills Course

Instructor: Paul McManus

pamcmanus@capousd.org

Keyboarding and Software Skills 2/7 to 4/11 #061315 Mondays 9:00 to 11:00 am McManus / Adult Ed Ctr  Keyboarding and Software Skills 4/18 to 6/13 #061315 Mondays 9:00 to 11:00 am McManus / Adult Ed Ctr  

Today, knowing how to type fast is almost a necessity in the business world.  More and more corporate-world employees are being asked to create reports, sales letters, business plans, blogs, web content, forecasts and more.  Knowing how to type can save you hours of valuable work time, increasing your productivity.

This course, Keyboarding and Software Skills, is entirely self-teaching.  Each lesson is short, simple and easy to master, with easy-to-understand text and custom-designed typing drills.

By the time you finish this course, you will be able to confidently type all the letters, numbers and the most common symbols, with proper ten-finger touch typing technique.

Preliminaries

• Introduction and Overview
• Principles for Effective Learning
• Typing Ergonomics
• Which Fingers Go Where

Typing Lessons

1. Home Row, Left Hand
2. Home Row, Right Hand
3. Home Row, Extended Index Fingers
4. The Shift Keys
5. Quotes and Apostrophe
6. Top Row: QWERT
7. Top Row: YUIOP
8. Bottom Row: NM,./?
9. Bottom Row: ZXCVB
10. Letters Consolidation
11. The Brackets
12. Numbers Row: 12345
13. Numbers Row: 67890
14. Numbers Row: !@#$%
15. Numbers Row: ^&*()
16. Math Keys: -=_+
17. The Backspace/Delete Key