Mrs. B. Simmons
Personal Keyboarding Class
Keyboarding
provides you
with skills for
life.
•Work Area Arrangement
•Posture
•Arm and Hand Positions
•Technique
WORK AREA ARRANGEMENT


Keyboard straight in front of chair
Front edge of keyboard even with
desk

Monitor placed for easy viewing

Book to right of keyboard
 Body
erect, sit back in chair
 Sit
comfortable distance from
keyboard
 Feet
flat on the floor, slightly
apart for balance
ARM AND HAND POSITION

Fingers curved and upright over home
keys

Wrists low but not touching keyboard

Forearms parallel to slant of keyboard

Elbows naturally close to body
TECHNIQUE
 Eyes
on copy –do NOT look
from copy to screen or keys
 All
keystrokes begin and end
at home row position
How
are
they
doing?
Name _____________________________ Section _______
Dates Observed ____________________________________
__________EYES ON COPY (10 points)
•Looked from copy to fingers
•Looked from copy to screen
•Looked from screen to fingers
__________HAND POSITION (10 points)
•Fingers resting on wrong keys
•Fingers do NOT return to homerow
•Fingers not well curved
•Thumb not a space bar
__________KEYING TECHNIQUE (10 points)
•Fingers typing incorrect keys
•Backspaced
•Used left thumb to space
__________WRIST POSITION (5 points)
•Wrist resting on keyboard or tray frame
__________POSTURE (10 points)
•Center of body not across from the letter “J”
•Not a hand span away from frame
•Not sitting up straight in chair
__________FEET POSITION (5 points)
•Feet crossed
•Feet not under desk in front of body
•Feet not flat on floor
__________YOUR GRADE – 50 pts. possible
(Points Received x 2 for 100% Grade)