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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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3 Keyboarding

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.

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