Intro.+to+Keyboarding

=Business Course - Introduction to Keyboarding=

§120.4. Introduction to Keyboarding. (a) General requirements. This course is recommended for students in Grades 6-8. (b) Introduction. Students apply technical skills to address business applications of emerging technologies. Students enhance reading, writing, computing, communications, and reasoning skills and apply them to the business environment. (c) Knowledge and skills. (1) The student applies the proper keyboarding technique to input data when using the computer or typewriter keyboard. The student is expected to: (A) demonstrate correct posture and position at the keyboard; (B) demonstrate proper care and operation of equipment used; (C) demonstrate the correct touch-system techniques for operating alphabetic keys; (D) demonstrate the correct touch-system techniques for operating numeric and symbol keys; (E) demonstrate the correct touch-system techniques for operating the ten-key numeric pad; and (F) demonstrate the correct use of the command and function keys. (2) The student formats and prints documents, for example, personal and business letters, short reports, and outlines. The student is expected to: (A) identify parts of personal and business letters, reports, and outlines; (B) format personal and business letters and envelopes; (C) format pages of a report, including a title page, a reference page, and bibliography; (D) format an outline; (E) demonstrate ability to print documents; (F) demonstrate the ability to work from printed, rough-draft, statistical, handwritten, and unarranged material; (G) demonstrate the ability to compose at the keyboard; and (H) demonstrate ability to proofread, use backspace key, and correct errors.

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