Teaching Kinesthetic Keyboard Awareness
A unique pre-keyboarding system that works as a precursor to the complete KeyBoard Coach® program or as a preparation for any “typing” program. It addresses key mind-muscle issues and visual-spatial training as a fundamental part of learning this motor skill for written communication.
Twelve step-by-step pre-keyboarding alphabetic exercises for visual motor patterning, learning how to learn and developing fine motor coordination. These are completed with either the Orientation Exercises copysheets and any word processor or KeyBoard Coach® Tutorial Software:
• Teaches finger-key placement through Alphabet Poem mnemonic
• Uses a 3-step visualization technique for kinesthetic keyboarding
• Introduces customized software games as a student-controlled tool
Establishing Correct Habits and Fluency
These comprehensive worksheets develop accuracy for effective keyboarding. They revisit the concepts presented in the Orientation and provide an intensive way to work the weak and confused fingers—using real language integrated with computer skills. The first three are essential to work the weaker Ring and Pinkie fingers. Completing seven sessions will preempt most typical errors. The remaining five are optional but focus on two-hand combinations and target the middle (home) row keys that are masked by the fingers.
:Building Fluency and Speed
“If you don’t use it you will lose it”—It is important to do some keyboarding every day; particularly generative personal writing. To further build fluency (speed will come naturally with use) a keyboarding (drill-type) software program maybe appropriate. The Extreme Keyboarder Lessons are available for those who prefer a copysheet approach or those who wish to improve their copying skill; they are made up of idioms and sentences crafted to address all the basic causes of error.
