This document provides information about keyboarding and typing for a technology design class. It defines keyboarding as the ability to type text using correct fingers without looking at the keys. It describes the QWERTY keyboard layout, including that it was devised by Christopher Sholes in the 1870s. It also defines bump keys, home row keys, and modifier keys. Finally, it provides tips for proper typing ergonomics such as keeping wrists straight and hands at a lower level than elbows.
This document provides information about keyboarding and typing for a technology design class. It defines keyboarding as the ability to type text using correct fingers without looking at the keys. It describes the QWERTY keyboard layout, including that it was devised by Christopher Sholes in the 1870s. It also defines bump keys, home row keys, and modifier keys. Finally, it provides tips for proper typing ergonomics such as keeping wrists straight and hands at a lower level than elbows.
This document provides information about keyboarding and typing for a technology design class. It defines keyboarding as the ability to type text using correct fingers without looking at the keys. It describes the QWERTY keyboard layout, including that it was devised by Christopher Sholes in the 1870s. It also defines bump keys, home row keys, and modifier keys. Finally, it provides tips for proper typing ergonomics such as keeping wrists straight and hands at a lower level than elbows.
This document provides information about keyboarding and typing for a technology design class. It defines keyboarding as the ability to type text using correct fingers without looking at the keys. It describes the QWERTY keyboard layout, including that it was devised by Christopher Sholes in the 1870s. It also defines bump keys, home row keys, and modifier keys. Finally, it provides tips for proper typing ergonomics such as keeping wrists straight and hands at a lower level than elbows.
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Keyboarding / Typing
Technology Design 6, 7, & 8
Mr. King Fall 2014
Keyboarding the ability to key text by
using the correct fingers without looking at the keys.
QWERTY the arrangement of the alphanumeric keys on a
standard keyboard; refers to the first six keys on the top row of letters. The QWERTY keyboard layout was devised and created in the early 1870s by Christopher Sholes, a newspaper editor and printer who lived in Milwaukee.
original machine typewriters
Bump keys keys with a small dot in the
center or a dash at the bottom to assist in correct finger position.
Home row keys keys on the keyboard
from which all keystrokes are made. These keys are a, s, d, f, j, k, l, ;.
Modifier Keys keyboard keys that are used
in conjunction with other keys; Ctrl, Alt, and Shift.
Typing Ergonomics
Keep the backs of your hands
parallel to the keyboard.
Have your arms oriented so that
you are able to keep your index, middle, ring fingers, and have both pinky fingers on their home keys.
Sit up as straight as possible
(within reason!).
Have the top of the monitor at
eye level.
Hands should be slightly
lower than elbows (keeps the blood flowing to the hands!).
Keep your wrists straight, so that the
tendons in your wrist are unencumbered through the carpal tunnel.
