Department/Grade:   Business Education    Course: Computers 7 Revision Date:  April, 2008                                      

Required/Elective:     Required         Course Length: One Semester         Prerequisite: None

Course Description:

During this one-half year course, students will have achieved keyboarding skills in order to operate the keyboard by touch.  They will have mastered correct techniques of position, fingering, and stroking, and developed appropriate response patterns and will have attained optimum speed and accuracy according to their individual capabilities.

COURSE OBJECTIVES	CONTENT/TIMELINE OUTLINE
Students will learn to operate the letter keys on a QWERTY keyboard.	Technique Form Posture Alphabetic fluency
Students will improve their keying techniques.	Difficult reaches Balanced-hand words One-handed words Correct errors Increased keying rate
Students will learn to center horizontally and vertically.	Formatting copy Increase keying skills
Students will learn to key the figure keys.	Refine stroking and operating techniques
Students will learn to key the basic symbol keys.	Spacing after punctuation Proofreader’s marks Refine stroking and operating techniques
Students will be able to format and key short one-paged reports.	Keying from rough draft Keying from script Refine basic techniques
RESOURCE MATERIALS	ASSESSMENT
Micro Mastery Keyboarding and Word Processing Applications Glencoe McGraw-Hill	Daily lessons Blank keyboard reviews Technique checklists Centering tests Proofreader’s marks quiz Timed writings One-page reports