Calendar Books by Allen James - Daily Reading - "A Graduate's Daily Guide to Success"

 

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Our reading for July 16th co-insides with July 11ths, and is taken from A Graduate's Daily Guide to Success, "Be computer literate"; today's reading is, "Learn how to type" (James 2012).

These days, it has turned a necessity for us people to spend much of our time in front of the computer. With this, typing has become less of an uncommon hobby, and more of a necessary skill. Although very few people utilize the old fashioned typewriter, the skills acquired "back in the day" in learning keyboarding skills are the same for the keyboards of today. It is never too early nor too late to learn how to type. And this is because typing has turned into much less of a repetitive routine. Typing games have been created to develop speed in writing and can be found on-line with a simple "search". But learning to type can somehow be difficult.

If children tend to fumble with their ABCs, so can adults fumble with their keyboards, thus making typing software indispensable.

In choosing the typing software to purchase, and consider the student's age and orientation. There are several typing games as there are keys on the QWERTY keyboard. For young children, there are games which feature cartoon characters and superheroes. For older teens, there are more advanced games.

When young children are using one of these typing games, guide them correctly - simply pounding on the keyboard is not the way to develop typing skills. (When they get used to this type of typing, we are be wasting our money for the long term.) We will want our kids to learn the correct way of typing, which he or she can learn through a typing game.

Adults with zero typing skills can jump-start their interest in typing with typing games - these are specifically designed to entertain and to educate at the same time. There are programs intended to integrate games and drills. There is no denying typing is basically a rote skill. The only way to enhance one's skills in typing and master it is through constant repetition. Gratefully, the typing programs available can be suited to our skill level. It is easy to master current levels and move on to the next level when already comfortable.


In this day and age when the fingers are the ones doing the talking, it has become imperative for anyone to have some amount of typing skills. Whatever profession we are pursuing, typing skills are necessary. With current crop of typing software available, everyone (from grandson to grandpa) will want to learn typing. They will forget the fact they are actually working to acquire, this otherwise, rote and boring skill.

There are different typing skills levels - there are the beginners and there are the speed typists. It doesn't matter what typing level, typing software programs can really help.

Are these typing softwares unfavorable when used at home or in the classroom? Answer: it is not what we've got, but how we use it. Don't pound the keys or just simply strike them. It is simple to study typing if we practice the software properly.

In today's world, there is much advantage for knowing how to type. Whatever the career path, knowing how to type is considered an asset (White, 2008).

Learn how to type....the hunt-and-peck method won't get us very far in the 21st century.

Keep looking up. : ) AJ