Tool Factory Keyboarding Presentation

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• Tool Factory Keyboarding Presentation

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Overview

• Keyboard Skills
• what are they?
• why are they so important?
• Tool Factory
• Tool Factorys Keyboarding Skills and Keyboarding
  Adventure
• Tool Factory Keyboarding Adventure key features
  and benefits

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Do you want your students to

• Have increased confidence in using PCs?
• Learn desktop applications faster?
• Reduce their time on the limited number of PCs in
  the school?
• Quickly complete research?
• Submit their assignments in word or email format?
• Be prepared for college?
• Improve their career opportunities?
• Learn a life-long skill?

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• If the answer to these questions is Yes, then
  you have identified that your students need to
  learn to touch type and improve their keyboard
  skills.

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Keyboarding Skills

• Definition
• Touch typing is an automatic or sub-conscious
  skill, where all ten fingers are used. It enables
  fast and accurate entry of characters onto the
  computer screen, without looking down at the
  keyboard and without searching for keys.

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Why are keyboard skills so important?

• Studies have shown that students who can touch
  type learn other desktop applications 40 faster.
• Increases confidence in software use.
• Reduces the time spent at PCs.
• Requirement in todays digital age - assignments
  are submitted by email and 90 of business
  documents are electronic.
• It means ideas can be recorded at 3-5 times the
  rate of handwriting.
• Students learn a life-long skill.

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• Founded on the goal to bring better software
  to American schools.
• Mission - To make a difference in education.
• The current Tool Factory catalog features over
  150 CD-Rom products, digital cameras and training
  seminars, all geared for K-12 education and
  inclusion classes.

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Tool Factory Keyboarding Skills
Tool Factory Keyboarding Adventure

• These programs have been available
  internationally for over 20 years.
• Over 4 million people worldwide have been trained
  with this system.
• Personalized course for every student so they
  learn at their optimal rate.

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Programs

• Are successfully used in thousands of educational
  institutions.
• Teach correct touch-typing techniques.
• Are self paced and computer managed.
• Are interactive and tailored to individual
  strengths and weaknesses.
• Offer personalized and positive feedback.
• Have clear reports for staff and parents.
• Are easy to install and easy to use.

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Tool Factory Keyboarding Adventure
Discover the Australian Outback with your
animated young guide Kewala, as in Keywala! He
will take you on an amazing typing journey to the
Kingdom of Eaz. Recommended for grades 1-6.
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Tool Factory KeyboardingSkills
The classic course which will develop keyboarding
skills in the quickest possible time, recommended
for grades 6-13.
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• Teaches students to touch type in 10 interactive,
  motivational, educational, personalized and fun
  lessons.
• Students discover keystones as they explore the
  Australian outback with Kewala as their personal
  tour guide.
• Clever commentary, 2,500 animations, over 20
  characters plus original sounds and music engage
  and motivate the students to keep typing without
  realizing theyre learning.

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Courses

• Student login options
• Setting course options
• 6 courses
• Finding the Keys
• Royal Challenge
• Royal Challenge 2
• Punctuation Course
• Keypad Lessons
• Custom Courses
• Administration and reporting

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Student Login Options

• The administrator sets the parameters.
• The options are
• Enable automatic login.
• Students can create their own accounts.
• The administrator can import students IDs from a
  CSV file.
• The administrator can add students.

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Setting Course Options

• The students will inherit the configuration you
  set when they first start the course and can then
  make changes according to their own preferences.
• Preferences can be set for how you want to use a
  course and how it displays. The options include
• Audio and visual preferences.
• One or two spaces after a period.
• Space or carriage return at the end of a line.
• The type of keyboard displayed.

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Visual Options

• Fonts
• Default Times New Roman 20
• Black text on white background
• The students can change this by either
• Tool Factory Main Menu/Settings/Visual or
• Toolbar Lesson/Settings/Visual
• Students can change text and background color

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Lesson Options

• Spacing
• Default is set at one space after words and
  periods.
• Default is set to hit the space bar to continue
  on to the next line.
• The students can change these via the settings
  options on the Tool Factory main menu or the
  toolbar by selecting LessongtSettingsgtLesson.

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Course Overview

• 6 courses
• Finding the Keys
• Royal Challenge
• Royal Challenge 2
• Punctuation course
• Keypad lessons
• Customized speed and/or accuracy courses
• Each course is broken down into lessons
• Each lesson is broken down into 3 parts

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Course - Finding the Keys

• This is the first part of the Adventure. You and
  your students will be touch typing by the time
  you reach the Kingdom Of Eaz.
• This course teaches correct finger positioning
  for the alpha/numeric keyboard in 10 structured
  lessons.

• As you travel on the 10 routes marked
• on Kewalas map, you will earn (and lose)
  points.

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Finding the Keys

• Introduction
• Introduction to Wise Fella
• Posture is important information
• Home keys
• Lessons 1 6
• Keyboard keys
• Lessons 7 8
• Top row number keys
• Lessons 9 10
• Building speed and accuracy

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Finding the Keys

• Making learning fun with Kewala!
• Lesson 1 6

• Parts A B of the lesson teach the letters of
  the alphabet in upper and lower cases.

• Part C is the consolidation of all keys learned
  to date.
• Kewala enjoys a ride on an emu, a killer whale, a
  flying moth, a lantern fish and a goat, while
  escaping dingos and sharks.

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Finding the Keys

• Lessons 7 8
• Part A B Learning the top row number keys while
  riding a hog along the highway and a lizard deep
  underground.
• Part C Consolidation of all keys learned.
• Lessons 9 10
• Build speed and accuracy while finishing Kewalas
  fun story and finally reaching the Kingdom of
  Eaz.

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Student Reporting

• At the end of every lesson you can view your
  results and print a Statement of Proficiency.

• Progress Reports
• Analysis
• Displays results in table format. You can order
  the results by Lesson, Accuracy, Words per minute
  in either ascending or descending order.

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Student Reporting

• Progress Reports
• 2 Key Reports
• The first shows the speed of each key stroke
  against your goal wpm speed and your average
  speed.
• The second report shows the percentage errors.

• Statement of Proficiency
• The student can print a Proficiency Statement

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Creating a Custom Course

• The TQAdmin program enables administrators to
  create, amend, replace or delete additional
  courses, using customized lesson text.
• Create new text files in any word processing
  program and save the text files as a speed or
  accuracy lesson.

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Custom Courses

• Running the Custom Course
• The new course can be found by selecting Choose
  a Course from the Typequick Main Menu.
• Highlight the lesson required and click OK. The
  lesson will begin.

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Administrator
Track your students and organize data based on
the heading categories.
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Administrator

• Import student names and ID numbers.

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Administrator
Run a search based on lesson parts and field
types.
Run a query to find specific data. For example
Best WPM greater than 30
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Administrator
Click on an individual student to view the
lessons they have completed or attempted.
Select a specific lesson to view key stroke data.

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Grades K-6
Grades 6-13