February 28

If you haven't finished up to lesson 20 in MicroType please concentrate on that today and tomorrow. I'd like to get everyone finished with all the keys (except the numbers) by Wednesday. Then we'll all begin work on the first big unit, Letter Writing.

Also finish the lessons on page 55-58 and 319-322.

If you have finished all that please go to MicroType and learn your numbers.

February 18

Same as yesterday except that if you finish 319-322 please work on the numbers on MicroType.

February 17

Many students are still learning to type so we won't be able to start on the real meat of the course until a few days after the vacation week.

So for today please start on page 319-322. There are 13 activities meant to teach you various skills.

February 16

I'm in an all-day meeting.

Please continue with the work on pages 55-58.
Also keep working on Microtype, letters and numbers.

February 15

At least in dictation you've attempted all the letters now (we did z, the last letter yesterday). So I'd like you to try our first real assignment of the semester.

BUT KEEP WORKING ON MICROTYPE. I'm not grading them but, for the sake of your proper typing technique, I need you to do all 20 lessons on letters PLUS the lessons on numbers. So, for a while, most of you will be doing regular assignments at the same time you are continuing with MICROTYPE.

Today please begin pages 55-58 in the textbook. You will be saving 9 separate files (on Activity 6 there is nothing to save). They will look like this:
LastNameWP1ACT1
LastNameWP1ACT2
LastNameWP1ACT3
LastNameWP1ACT4
LastNameWP1ACT5
LastNameWP1ACT7
LastNameWP1ACT8
LastNameWP1ACT9
LastNameWP1ACT10

Ask me for help!! Some of the instructions are confusing.

February 14

Today's practice is page 16, Exercise 7E: this is the letter z and the colon.
After today we have officially typed all 26 letters!
We have a handful of other keys to do before we begin the first real subject: correspondence (letters).

After a brief dictation I'll show you a few things about TABS.

February 11

Exercise 7C,page 15.

We'll do letters q and the comma.

February 10

I'm ill. Please have some understanding that I may not be able to do everything today.

Begin with Exercise 6E on page 14.
I'll dictate on the letters p & v.
Then we'll do some work with WORD.

February 9

Exercise 6C on page 13.

Do Microtype for the remainder of the period if I'm absent. If I'm here I'll do dictation.

February 8

Exercise 5E, page 12.

I'm getting sick and might not dictate today. I'll give you some work on page margins, orientation, columns and page breaks.

February 7

Exercise 5C on page 11.

We'll practice the letter w and the right shift key today, then learn a couple tricks on WORD. (hyperlinks and headers)

February 4

Exercise 4E on page 10.

We'll do dictation on the letters u & c today.

Then we'll practice with shading and we'll set a default font.

February 3

Page 9, exercise 4C.

I'll dictate about Left shift and the period.

We'll also look at text boxes and the show-hide button.

February 2

Type exercise 3E on page 8.
Continue with Microtype.

We'll do dictation on two new letters, n & g.

I'll show you a few more tricks with WORD.