Keyboarding 11 Thomas Haney Senior Secondary 2017-2018 THSSBusiness.com 26th Edition (THSS 1992-2018)
Introduction to Keyboarding 11... 4 Your Dreams and School Goals... 5 Getting to Know You... 5 I want to know why your taking this course, and more importantly, what excites you and gets you inspired. If we use ammeter athletics as a metaphor, I m like the coach who issues you a plan and tries to encourage you to be your best. Ultimately, it s only up to you if you succeed in meeting your goals (and dreams), I can only encourage.... 5 There will be three requirements in Learning Guides 1.... 5 1. Completing an online Creative Survey (available on my website)... 5 2. Developing and sharing with others (course teacher, TA, and parents) a 3 month plan for keyboarding skill development... 5 3. A face to face meeting with your course teacher to go over your goals and to help you with your plan.... 5 Establishing a Baseline Score... 6 Your Keyboarding Plan... 6 Assignments... 6 See your teacher and arrange for a 5 minute timed write. (We will probably be doing this in class, but if you miss that session )... 6 Speed Improvement... 8 Moving the Baseline to Your Goal Speed... 8 Space Bar Rules & Personal Letters... 9 Learn to format a personal letter written to a business... 9 Business Letters... 11 Business Letters are written from one business organization to an individual or another business organization... 11 Microsoft OneNote... 13 A Digital Note-taking Tool... 13 Enumerations & Basic Reports... 16
Reports are often used by students so this guide will cover how to format a report correctly... 16 Citations... 18 Proper Bibliographies and Footnotes... 18 Multi-page Reports... 20 Most of your reports will be longer than one page.... 20 Presentations: Microsoft PowerPoint... 21 No More Death by Powerpoint. Let s make great presentations instead.... 21 Other Presentation Applications... 22 Alternative Presentation Tools... 22 Business Communications 1... 22 Skills for Effective Business Writing... 22 Business Communications 2... 22 More Skills for Effective Business Writing... 22 Reflection and Self-Evaluation... 22 Moving the Baseline to Goal Speed... 22
Introduction to Keyboarding 11 This course is very much about skill development and improvement. The goals of the course are: personal goal setting and planning for success student keyboarding speed (and accuracy) improvement awareness of ergonomics skill development with word-processing and presentation software skill development business communication standards While there will be some assignments that are specifically business related, many of the final assignments can be completed in conjunction with projects you re doing elsewhere. Likewise, you can do the hand in the final 15 guides in any order you want, though as a class, we ll be following a set calendar. Finally, for your skill development and overall success and satisfaction you must practice consistently if you are to grow and improve your skills. We all know other THSS students who have not planned well, or at all, and they struggle come June. And while they may finish the course, they have let themselves down by not being the best they can be.
Learning Guide 1 Your Dreams and School Goals Getting to Know You I want to know why your taking this course, and more importantly, what excites you and gets you inspired. If we use ammeter athletics as a metaphor, I m like the coach who issues you a plan and tries to encourage you to be your best. Ultimately, it s only up to you if you succeed in meeting your goals (and dreams), I can only encourage. There will be three requirements in Learning Guides 1. 1. Completing an online Creative Survey (available on my website) 2. Developing and sharing with others (course teacher, TA, and parents) a 3 month plan for keyboarding skill development 3. A face to face meeting with your course teacher to go over your goals and to help you with your plan.
Learning Guide 2 Establishing a Baseline Score Your Keyboarding Plan Our text for keyboarding skill development section is: Ubelacker, Sandra. Mastering Keyboarding Skills 1. Second ed. Mississauga: Copp Clark Pittman, 1989. Print. Assignments Assignment 1 Baseline See your teacher and arrange for a 5 minute timed write. (We will probably be doing this in class, but if you miss that session ) Assignment 2 Develop a Skill-building Plan Meet with your teacher to develop your Personalized Plan. (This is the plan you will be evaluated for the entirety of Learning Guides 1 to 5.)
Once you have done the five-minute test, together we will establish your skill level, and together we will develop a training plan, Appendix 2, to meet your skill level goals you articulated in Learning Guide 1. The goal is to have this done by September 30. Assignment 3 Start your plan and meet the first performance objective.
Learning Guide 3 to 7 Speed Improvement Moving the Baseline to Your Goal Speed The goal for the next 3 guides of your plan (LG 3 to 5) is to meet the goals you set for yourself. If things go as planned, the skill building part of the course will be finished by the end of November. It is important to meet this target, as you may be moving on to other types of skill building. We will meet to evaluate your growth and performance prior to the first report card. There is a form, Appendix 2, which you will have to guide you in completing Learning Guides 3 to 5. The goal is to complete this section by the first report card.
Learning Guide 8 Space Bar Rules & Personal Letters Learn to format a personal letter written to a business Resources: Mastering Keyboarding Skills, 2nd Edition Cortez Peters Championship Keyboarding, Skillbuilding, & Applications Activities:
1. Carefully read the attached handout, Space Bar Rules. Pay particular attention to the examples. These rules will apply for the remainder of the course. 2. Complete the Space Bar assignment (Assignment 1.1) on the handout (See Mr. Scoular-pages 34-35). 3. Do a 5 minute timed write (Level 1) in Cortez Peters Championship Keyboarding, Skillbuilding, & Applications. 4. On page 214 of Mastering Keyboarding Skills, 2nd Edition you will find an example of a Personal Business Letter in the full block style with two point punctuation. Full block style means that all parts of the letter begin on the left margin. Two point punctuation means that you have a colon (:) after the salutation and a comma (,) after the complimentary closing. 5. Format the letter on page 214. 6. Complete the following personal business letters using the full block style with 2 point punctuation. Mastering Keyboarding page 216 Production 2 Mastering Keyboarding page 224 Production
Learning Guide 9 Business Letters Business Letters are written from one business organization to an individual or another business organization Resources: Mastering Keyboarding Skills, 2nd Edition Cortez Peters Championship Keyboarding, Skillbuilding, & Applications
Activities: 1. Do Lesson 16, pages 35 and 36, in Cortez Peters Championship Keyboarding, Skillbuilding, & Applications. 2. Then see your teacher to do a 5-minute Write. 3. Review using example of a Business Letter, (page 214 Mastering Keyboarding) and again using the Full Block, but with Open Punctuation format (check if you re not sure), we use with the Personal Business Letter. Open punctuation means you omit the colon after the salutation and the comma after the complimentary closing. Now key a copy of the letter on the attached letter (page 291 Business of Keyboarding) substituting the current date for the date shown on the letter and placing your initials at the bottom on the initials line. Use the full block style shown with open punctuation. The initials indicate that Carol Gans wrote the letter and by placing your initials after hers, instead of yi you are indicating that you typed the letter. 4. Key the following letters using full block style want open punctuation: Business of Keyboarding, 2nd Edition, page 317 Assignment 8:6 Business of Keyboarding Assignment 8:7 Business of Keyboarding Assignment 8:8
Learning Guide 10 and 11 Microsoft OneNote A Digital Note-taking Tool While I personally use Evernote to keep track of articles I discover online, Iit costs be money each month. If you have Microsoft Office, OneNote is included. (If you didn t already know, each THSS student gcan get Microsoft Office installed onto one s laptop for FREE. In this guide you ll learn the basics of a note taking app and how they can organize documents for use in projects. (If you are already using Evernote or One Note see me for credit.) Assignment for Learning Guides 8 and 9
1. Skill building as your personal plan. In other words, you realize thesne guides are adding more skills to your repertoire. 2. Read the OneNote introduction if you re opening the application for the first time. 3. Do the following assignments or use the application according to your unique goals. 4. Visit https://www.onenote.com/# to see OneNote in action. 5. Set up your account. 6. OneNote 2013 videos and tutorials (Applies To: OneNote 2013) 7. Show your finished OneNote with two weeks of entries to your teacher. 8. Visit: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/onenote-2013-videos-and-tutorialsf9ba9d15-91c4-4a7e-81a8-88d728c410c2?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us Webinar: Back to school with OneNote In this video, we ll teach students how to get up and running on OneNote. Plus, we ll show existing OneNote users some little known tips and tricks for taking notes fast. Watch online Webinar: OneNote for free plus new tools Before you dive in to our in-depth training, watch this introductory webinar. We ll show you how OneNote can be your scrapbook for home, work, and school on many devices. Plus we ll dig into the many new tools and apps that rolled out in March, 2014. By the way, OneNote is a free download, and we'll cover that too. Watch online Beginner Create and organize Quick Notes (unfiled notes) Do you ever paste lots of paper sticky notes on your monitor? With OneNote 2013, there s a better way to stay organized. The next time you re tempted to grab a sticky note, use a Quick Note instead. Quick notes are mini versions of actual OneNote pages. They re automatically saved in your notebook, and you can use them to jot down notes as you work. Watch online Create your first OneNote 2013 notebook
Watch these videos to learn how to use OneNote 2013. Get started with the new version to see how to do everyday tasks. Watch online Format notes You quickly created some notes in OneNote 2013, but now you want to make those notes easier to read, both for yourself and for sharing with others. Take this singlevideo course to learn how to format text in OneNote 2013, including line spacing, fonts, and how to copy formatting with the Format Painter. Watch online Format pages You can format OneNote pages to make it easier to take notes, to communicate your message better, or just to be more visually appealing. Add an image and make it the background, change a page's color to create a theme, add page lines, and save the pages as a template. Watch online Take your notes anywhere on any device You can take notes on your computer and update them on your cell phone or other mobile device no matter where you are. When you get back to your computer, pick up where you left off and stay in sync. OneNote is available on iphone, ipad, Android, Windows Phone, and Symbian Belle. Go here for download links. Watch online Using Tables in OneNote See some of the new table features in OneNote 2013, including how to add, format and sort a table and how to convert a table to an Excel spreadsheet. Watch online Intermediate Make the switch to OneNote 2013 Watch these videos to make the switch to OneNote 2013. Get started with the new version to see how to do everyday tasks. Watch online Webinar: Onetastic for OneNote With the free add-in Onetastic, you can add features to your PC desktop version of OneNote. We'll show you how to get it and take it for a spin in this webinar recording.
Learning Guide 12 Enumerations & Basic Reports Reports are often used by students so this guide will cover how to format a report correctly Resources: Mastering Keyboarding Skills, 2nd Edition Cortez Peters Championship Keyboarding, Activities: 1. In this guide, look for 2 for 1 activities which allow you to submit work you have completed for other classes as an assignment for a Keyboarding learning guide.
2. Do Lesson 17, pages 37 and 38, in Cortez Peters Championship Keyboarding, Skillbuilding, & Applications. 3. Then see your teacher to do a 5-minute Write. 4. On the handout (page 379), you will find an example of enumeration. Study the example, paying close attention to the spacing. 5. Key a copy of the enumeration on the handout (pages 379 & 380). 6. Key the following enumeration using the formatting rules you learned in Activity 4. page 380 Assignment 10:2 7. Read the rules for One-Page Reports on the hand out (page 386). One page 387 you will find an example of an one-page report. Study this example, paying close attention to the spacing. Key a copy of this report. 8. Key thee following 1 page reports: page 388 Assignment 10:10 page 389 Assignment 10:11 page 391 Assignment 10:13 (Refer to the proofreader s marks that are attached.) 9. 2 for 1 Activity. You may either key page 390, Assignment 10:12 or submit a onepage report you have prepared for another class.
Learning Guide 13 Citations Proper Bibliographies and Footnotes I hope you will use this guide to properly cite work you must submit for other classes you have. For example, Research projects and English essays or reports need to have citations whenever you use the ideas or you quote another person. Activities: 1. Do Lesson 18, pages 39 and 40, in Cortez Peters Championship Keyboarding, Skillbuilding, & Applications. Bibliography
2. Visit CitationMachine.org and cite the last book, magazine, and show (movie, television, or online) you have seen. Create one list using MLA style. Arrange the list in alphabetical order. 3. Repeat using APA style. How do they differ? Footnotes 4. Ask your teacher for the footnote exercise. Complete. 2 for 1 5. Create a Citation List for another class assignment using Microsoft Word.
Learning Guide 14 Multi-page Reports Most of your reports will be longer than one page. This Learning Guide has a 2 for 1 assignment. Activities: 1. Do Lesson 19, pages 43 and 44, in Cortez Peters Championship Keyboarding, Skillbuilding, & Applications. 2. See your Teacher to do a 5 minute timed writing. 3.. Read the rules for Multi-Page Reports on the Guide attachment pages 400 and 401). Pay particular attention to the proper spacing. 4. Key a copy of the report in Activity 2. 5. Key the following multi-page report: page 405 Assignment 10:23 6. 2 for 1. You may either key page 406, Assignment 10:24 or submit a multi-page report with side headings that you have prepared for another class.
Learning Guide 15 Presentations: Microsoft PowerPoint No More Death by Powerpoint. Let s make great presentations instead. For Learning Guide 13 you will need the supplemental Microsoft PowerPoint Activity guides. This is located on the THSSBusiness.com website. Activities 1. Locate Microsoft Powerpoint Learning Guide on the THSSBusiness.com website. 2. Complete the Skills Assessment on the second page (page number 20). Then show it to your teacher. He will help you get set up for both Learning Guide 9 and 10. 3. Complete the activities in Session One and Two as agreed to by you and your teacher. 4. Review the document on PowerPoint Design and Aesthetics. 5. Create a Powerpoint for one of your other classes.
Learning Guide 16 Other Presentation Applications Alternative Presentation Tools This guide is currently in draft form. It will be completed by the new year. Learning Guide 17 Business Communications 1 Skills for Effective Business Writing This guide is currently in draft form. It will be completed by the new year. Learning Guide 18 and 19 Business Communications 2 More Skills for Effective Business Writing This guide is currently in draft form. It will be completed by the new year. Learning Guide 20 Reflection and Self-Evaluation Moving the Baseline to Goal Speed This guide is currently in draft form. It will be completed by the new year
Appendices Appendix 1 Goals and Dreams Online survey (Available online thssbusiness.com) One on One Interview Questions (Available online thssbusiness.com) Appendix 2 Student Training Plan A type-able version is available http:// thssbusiness.com/keyboarding-11-.html Keyboarding Training 2016 Worksheet Student Copy September 2016 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 6 7 8 9 12 13 14 15 16 Sept 12 to 16 Goals Complete and Score 5 minute timed write Print Appendix 1 Set time to meet Teacher to discuss Goals and Dreams (by September 30) 19 20 21 22 23 Sept 19 to 23 Goals 26 NID 27 28 29 30 Learning Guide 1 (Goals and Dreams) Completed Sept 27 to 30 Goals
October 2016 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 3 4 5 6 7 October 3 to 7 Goals 10 Thanksgiving 11 12 13 14 October 11 to 14 Goals 17 18 19 20 21 NID October 17 to 20 Goals 24 25 26 27 Student Lead Conferences 28 October 24 to 28 Goals 31
November 2016 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1 2 3 4 October 31 to November 4 Goals 7 8 9 10 No School 11 Remembrance Day November 7 to 9 Goals 14 15 16 17 18 Typing Goals Completed LG2-5 November 14 to 18 Goals 21 22 23 24 25 November 21 to 25 Goals 28 29 30 Report Cards Home