Internet-Based Keyboarding

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Internet-Based Keyboarding

• By
• Barbara Ellsworth
• Mesa Community College, Mesa, AZ
• Ellsworth Publishing Company

8-9 minutes PRESS F5 KEY TO BEGIN PRESS ENTER KEY
OR SPACEBAR WHEN YOU SEE THE GREEN ARROW
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Keyboarding Courses
Keyboarding for Kids Ten-Key Mastery courses
are shown on later slides. See
www.EllsworthPublishing.com for complete course
descriptions.
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Students Can Work Anywhere
Library
Classroom or Lab
Vacation
Home
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Nothing to install, update, maintain(All
software is on our servers)
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NO papers to grade, print, or turn in(You might
want to print for a parent-teacher conference)
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Students Have To Keep Their Eyes On The Textbook!

• Teachers can turn off the timing screen so
  students cant see what they are typing. If they
  look at their fingers or the screen, they lose
  their place

In the Setup, the teacher set 0 errors for
15-sec. timings, so nothing recorded. Look at
fingers, lose place, make error, take timing over!
At the end of the 15-seconds, the speed and
accuracy appear.
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Students Have To Keep Their Eyes On The Textbook!

• Student took the timing again (no limit, best
  three speeds record so students can see their
  progress)

Because the student made 0 errors this time, the
timing score recorded. (Competency Based
Instruction)
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Progress Report

• Scores that meet the accuracy standard are
  automatically saved to their Progress Report

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Teachers See Student Scores in the Teacher
Manager

• Scores are available online from
  anywhereclassroom, home, etc. Nothing needs to
  be printed. (Same for mid-term, final grades)

Click to select View Student Progress
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Individual Progress Report (Larger Picture)
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The Profile Name Column Shows The Course
Standards

• You can individualize for Special Needs or
  Accelerated Students in your classroom.
• The numbers after the Profile Name are the wpm
  goal for an A

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The Student Effort Column Shows Amount of Time
Spent Practicing

• It accumulates the time the timer is
  goingstudents must have pre-set accuracy or it
  wont record (they cant start the timer and
  leave or play around).
• (No more excuses by students who are behind)

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Sample of 4th Grade Reportby Lesson Averages
Christ Lutheran School -- Norfolk, NE 4th Grade
class -- Teacher Steven
Stortz Textbook --
Keyboarding for KidsGrades 1-6
Used by Permissionnames covered by request of
principal
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Sample of 8th GradeJr. High
Churchill Junior High -- Salt Lake City, UT 8th
Grade class -- Teacher Alan
Wicklander Textbook --
Keyboard Short Course
Final Grade appears automatically according to
grading scale teacher set
Used by Permission
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Send/Receive Messages(between teacher students
only)

• Messages are seen when students first open their
  data file--automatically.

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Schedule Manager

• Schedule when students can practice, by student
  or entire class
• Enable practice times if you suspect
  cheatingsuch as to only the regular class period
• Lock Begin and End dates (perfect for Open Entry
  or online classes)

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Nuts n Bolts Formatting
Its a Free download for our users at
www.keyboardingonline.com

• Bound Unbound Reports with Footnotes
• Simple Mail Merge
• Creating Flyers with Clip Art
• E-mail (Web based)

• Basic MS Word
• Faxes
• Business Letters
• Resumes Cover Letters
• Memorandums
• Proofreaders Marks
• Tables

(Appropriate for middle school high school)
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Introduction to Microsoft Applications
Its a Free download for our users at
www.keyboardingonline.com

• WindowsManaging Files Folders
• PublisherCreating Business Cards
• ExcelSpreadsheets , Formulas Charts
• AccessCreating Data Base, Queries, Reports
• PowerPointCreating a slide show, Using clip art
  and Animation

(Appropriate for middle school high school)
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Keyboarding for Kids

• For Grades 1-6
• Practice exercises by reading level
• Most schools begin in 2nd or 3rd grade

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Reward for Achieving Goals

• Hopper appears to congratulate students when
  speed/accuracy goals are achieved

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Features of Keyboarding for Kids

• Same features as other keyboarding courses, such
  as the message shown when students first open
  their data file

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Same Reporting Features as Other Keyboarding
Courses

• This is a 2nd grade class.

Note Teachers requested a Student Effort column
it was created and installed near the end of the
semester and does not adequately reflect time
spent practicing.
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Ten Key Mastery

• Teaches the numeric keypad with speed and
  accuracy to employment standards.
• Has three actual employment tests

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Ten Key Mastery HasSame Features as
Keyboarding(such as this Class Summary Report)
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Online Authors Demos(Let us demo the course to
your students--with voice and animation)

• www.Keyboardingonline.com

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We Give Teachers What They Want

• Web based no software to install or maintain
• Students can work from anywhere
• Unique features not found elsewherelike turning
  off the timing screen so students have to keep
  their eyes on the textbook or lose their place.
• NO PAPERS TO GRADE, PRINT, OR TURN IN
• Individualize to fast or slow students
• Accumulates time students spend practicing
• Teachers and students can message each other
• Online Authors Demo to explain the course to
  students
• Online presentation of the Six Essential
  Techniques of Keyboarding
• Updates are free
• Formatting is free. Intro to MS Applications is
  free.
• Company is run by certified Business teachers
• Easy on the budgetsave
• 159 per year site license fee for whole school
  (see Catalog)
• Textbooks 10.95 or 13.95 eachlast 6-7 years
  typically
• Small school special pricing

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Technical Information

• Designed for efficient use of bandwidth
• It is NOT streaming Internet
• Once a student downloads the program, it is
  stored in the cache
• Scores go to Ellsworths server every 12 minutes
  automatically, with no disruption noticed
• If students select Save and Close File at the end
  of the class, the program remains open to the
  next class without logging in again.
• Student data is backed up nightly.
• All you need is an internet connection and the
  Java plug-in (For PCs it is a free download from
  www.Java.com Mac OS10 already have it in their
  operating system.)

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Email us at Sales_at_EllsworthPublishing.com

• To set up a phone demo with you and/or some of
  your other keyboarding teachers (We can use
  WebEx)
• Well go through the whole course with youhow to
  set up your course standards, create your class,
  enter students, view student progress and grades,
  delete students, individualize standards, see how
  students practice, etc.
• To receive a free complimentary copy of a
  textbook
• To receive a 2-month FREE trial
• (Check www.EllsworthPublishing.com to review
  textbooks and see which ones fit your needs.)

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