Ergonomics - Students are expected to use home row at all times and to use the proper finger for each key. To type comfortably, students should keep their wrist flat/straight, feet flat on the floor, eyes level with the text on the screen, sit up straight, and their thumbs resting on the space bar.
It is critical that students practice typing at home in order to achieve their goals. Several students are not practicing on their own; please make sure that your child is practicing WITHOUT looking at their hands/keys.
Please have all students practice typing on this site: http://freetypinggame.net/default.asp or in another typing program. An excellent program is Type to Learn. You can download a 30-day free trial of this at www.sunburst.com.
REMINDER: All students are given space on the network (P drive) for their assignments/projects. Students must save their work to this drive in order for it to be there the next time they login. If they save it anywhere else, all of their hard work will be lost.
Did You Know?
Have you ever inserted a picture into Word and just couldn't get it to go where you wanted it go?
After you have inserted your picture, be sure the picture is selected, right-click on the picture and go to Text Wrapping. On the fly-out menu, click on Tight. Of course, this may vary in different versions of Word. If you find that this doesn't work for you, Google "Text Wrapping in Word"!
