1. Mrs. B. Simmons Personal Keyboarding Class

2. Keyboarding provides you with skills for life.

3. Work Area Arrangement Posture Arm and Hand Positions Technique

4. WORK AREA ARRANGEMENT

5.  Keyboard straight in front of chair  Front edge of keyboard even with desk  Monitor placed for easy viewing  Book to right of keyboard

6. POSTURE

7.  Body erect, sit back in chair  Sit comfortable distance from keyboard  Feet flat on the floor, slightly apart for balance

8. ARM AND HAND POSITION

9.  Fingers curved and upright over home keys  Wrists low but not touching keyboard  Forearms parallel to slant of keyboard  Elbows naturally close to body

10. TECHNIQUE

11.  Eyes on copy –do NOT look from copy to screen or keys  All keystrokes begin and end at home row position

12. How are they doing?

13. Name _____________________________ Section _______ Dates Observed ____________________________________ __________EYES ON COPY (10 points) Looked from copy to fingers Looked from copy to screen Looked from screen to fingers __________HAND POSITION (10 points) Fingers resting on wrong keys Fingers do NOT return to homerow Fingers not well curved Thumb not a space bar

14. __________KEYING TECHNIQUE (10 points) Fingers typing incorrect keys Backspaced Used left thumb to space __________WRIST POSITION (5 points) Wrist resting on keyboard or tray frame __________POSTURE (10 points) Center of body not across from the letter “J” Not a hand span away from frame Not sitting up straight in chair

15. __________FEET POSITION (5 points) Feet crossed Feet not under desk in front of body Feet not flat on floor __________YOUR GRADE – 50 pts. possible (Points Received x 2 for 100% Grade)