Business Technology Weekly Assignments

Following are the objectives you are expected to work on:

    Week of September 11, 2006


    Week of September 18, 2006
    Objectives:
  1. Keyboarding

    This week you will establish a baseline keyboarding skill and begin to improve your keyboarding speed and accuracy. Keyboarding skill can not be learned all at once; this assignment will continue over time and will overlap other assignments. Proper keyboarding involves "touch typing," or typing that does not involve looking at the keyboard.
  1. Home Row keys
  2. Top Row and Shift
  3. Pinkie Practice
  4. Index Finger Reach
  5. Left Bottom Row
  6. Right Bottom Row
  7. Last of the Letters
  8. Number Practice

Goal: Your keyboarding goals are 40 words per minute (wpm) with 98% accuracy.

Assessment: You will be required to take a timed typing test. You will have multiple opportunities to pass the typing test.

Week of September 25, 2006


Your assignment is to go the Assignments Directory of my Web page and click on the assignment named Word Lesson 1.
There are thirty (30) questions you need to answer. Write the questions in your notebook and find the answers to the questions in the Microsoft Office 2003 textbook. Immediately after each question I have indicated the approximate page in the book where you should be able to find the answer. I will also cover this material in class. To make sure you are getting and understanding this information, you will be required to take quizzes on quizlab.com as your Do Now assignments. At the end of the week when I have covered all the material, there will be a test on quizlab covering all 30 questions.

You will also continue with the keyboarding to reach a keyboarding goal of 40 words per minute (wpm) with 98% accuracy.


Week of October 2, 2006


Your assignment is to go the Assignments Directory of my Web page and click on the assignment named Word Lesson 2.
There are thirty (30) questions you need to answer. Write the questions in your notebook and find the answers to the questions in the Microsoft Office 2003 textbook. Immediately after each question I have indicated the approximate page in the book where you should be able to find the answer. I will also cover this material in class. To make sure you are getting and understanding this information, you will be required to take quizzes on quizlab.com as your Do Now assignments. At the end of the week when I have covered all the material, there will be a test on quizlab covering all 30 questions.

You will also continue with the keyboarding to reach a keyboarding goal of 40 words per minute (wpm) with 98% accuracy.


Week of October 9, 2006
Go to the Directory of Assignments and answer the questions under Word Lesson 2. Your homework will be organizing your notebooks in preparation for the next day quiz on quizlab.com. Be sure to check thinkwave.com.
There are thirty (30) questions you need to answer. Write the questions in your notebook and find the answers to the questions in the Microsoft Office 2003 textbook. Immediately after each question I have indicated the approximate page in the book where you should be able to find the answer. I will also cover this material in class. To make sure you are getting and understanding this information, you will be required to take quizzes on quizlab.com as your Do Now assignments.

You will also continue with the keyboarding to reach a keyboarding goal of 40 words per minute (wpm) with 98% accuracy.


Week of October 16, 2006
Go to the Directory of Assignments and answer the questions under Word Lesson 3. Your homework will be organizing your notebooks in preparation for the next day quiz on quizlab.com. Be sure to check thinkwave.com.
There are thirty (30) questions you need to answer. Write the questions in your notebook and find the answers to the questions in the Microsoft Office 2003 textbook. Immediately after each question I have indicated the approximate page in the book where you should be able to find the answer. I will also cover this material in class. To make sure you are getting and understanding this information, you will be required to take quizzes on quizlab.com as your Do Now assignments.

You will also continue with the keyboarding to reach a keyboarding goal of 40 words per minute (wpm) with 98% accuracy.


Week of October 23, 2006


Week of October 30, 2006
Week of December 4, 2006 Keyboard DDC exercises 7-13 and read the pdf file Office, Chapter 1, Topic 2. Answer the 10 Review questions at the end of the chapter and turn in to me.
Week of December 11, 2006 Recently we have been working on keyboarding the DDC keyboarding exercises 1-13. This week we will self assess. I have stamped all exercises turned in. I will give them back to you for you to grade, following the examples I will show you using the computer and projector.

  • The criteria for grading is that there should be no more than a 3% error rate.
  • If the document contains 100 words, then there should be no more than three (3) keyboarding errors.
  • A paper not meeting the 97% proficiency rate can not receive a grade higher that a "B".
  • A paper of 95% proficiency can not receive a grade higher that a "C".
  • A paper less than 95% proficiency will receive a grade of "D", or less.