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!Narration
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|00.00
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|Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial  Introduction to KTouch.
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|00.04
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|In this tutorial you will learn about KTouch and the KTouch interface.
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|00.10
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|You will learn how to type:
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|-
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|00.11
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|Accurately, quickly, and efficiently, on a computer keyboard that has the English alphabet keys.
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|-
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|00.18
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|You will also learn to:
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|-
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|00.20
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|Type without having to look down at every time you type.
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|-
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|00.24
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|What is KTouch?
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|-
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|00.27
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|KTouch is a typing tutor. It teaches you how to type using an online interactive keyboard.
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|-
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|00.33
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|You can learn typing at your own pace.
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|-
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|00.36
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|You can gradually increase your typing speed and along with it, your accuracy.
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|-
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|00.43
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|KTouch also has lectures or typing samples, in various levels of difficulty, for you to practice with.
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|-
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|00.50
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|Here, we are using KTouch 1.7.1 on Ubuntu Linux 11.10.
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|-
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|00.59
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|You can install KTouch using the Ubuntu Software Centre.
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|-
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|01.03
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|For more information on Ubuntu Software Centre, please refer to the Ubuntu Linux Tutorials on this website.
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|-
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|01.11
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|Let’s open KTouch.
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|-
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|01.13
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|First, click Dash Home, which is the round button, on the top left corner of your computer desktop.
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|-
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|01.21
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|The Search box appears.
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|-
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|01.24
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|In the Search box type KTouch.
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|-
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|01.28
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|The KTouch icon appears beneath the Search box.Click on it.
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|-
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|01.34
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|The KTouch window appears.
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|-
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|01.36
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|Alternately, you can open KTouch using the Terminal.
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|-
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|01.41
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|To open a Terminal press the CTRL and ALT and T keys together.
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|-
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|01.47
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|To open KTouch, in the Terminal, type the command: ktouch and press Enter.
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|-
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|01.55
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|Now, let’s familiarize ourselves with the KTouch interface.
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|-
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|01.59
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|The Main menu comprises the File, Training, Settings, and Help menus.
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|-
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|02.06
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|Click Start New Session to start a new session to practice typing.
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|-
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|02.11
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|Click Pause Session to pause while typing.
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|-
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|02.14
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|Click on Lecture Statistics to know your typing progress.
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|-
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|02.19
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|Level indicates the level of complexity, in terms of the number of keys used when typing.
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|-
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|02.27
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|Speed indicates the number of characters that you can type per minute.
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|-
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|02.32
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|The Correctness indicator displays the percentage correctness of typing.
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|-
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|02.39
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|The New Characters in This Level field displays the characters that you need to practice at the selected level.
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|-
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|02.47
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|The Teacher’s Line displays the characters that have to be typed.
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|-
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|02.51
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|The Student’s Line displays the characters that are typed by you using the keyboard.
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|-
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|02.58
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|The Keyboard is displayed in the centre.
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|-
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|03.02
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|The first line of the keyboard displays numerals, special characters, and the Backspace key.
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|-
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|03.09
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|Press the Backspace key to delete typed characters.
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|-
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|03.13
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|The second line of the keyboard comprises alphabets few special characters, and the Tab key.
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|-
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|03.20
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|The third line of the keyboard comprises alphabets,colon, semicolon, and Caps lock keys.
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|-
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|03.28
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|Press the Enter key to go to the next line while typing.
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|-
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|03.33
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|Press the Caps Lock key to type  capital letters.
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|-
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|03.37
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|The fourth line of the keyboard comprises alphabets, special characters, and shift keys.
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|-
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|03.45
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|Press the shift key together with any other alphabet key to type capital letters.
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|-
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|03.52
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|Press the Shift key with any other key to type a character given at the top of the key.
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|-
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|03.59
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|For example, the key with the numeral 1 has the exclamation mark on top.
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 +
To type the exclamation mark, press the Shift key together with 1.
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|-
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|04.11
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|The fifth line of the keyboard comprises the Ctrl, Alt, and Function keys.It also contains the space bar.
 +
 
 +
|-
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|04.20
 +
|Now let us see if there are differences between the KTouch keyboard, laptop keyboard, and desktop keyboard.
 +
 
 +
|-
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|04.29
 +
|Notice that the KTouch keyboard and the keyboards used in desktops and laptops are similar.
 +
 
 +
|-
 +
|04.36
 +
|Now, let’s see the correct placement of our fingers on the keyboard.
 +
 
 +
|-
 +
|04.41
 +
|Look at this slide.
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|-
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|04.42
 +
|It displays the fingers and their names.
 +
 
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|-
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|04.46
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|Fingers, from left to right, are named:
 +
 
 +
Little finger,
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 +
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|-
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|04.51
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|Ring finger,
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 +
Middle finger,
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|-
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|04.54
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|Index finger and
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 +
Thumb
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|-
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|04.59
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|On your keyboard, place your left hand, on the left side of the keyboard.
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|-
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|05.03
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|Ensure that the little finger is on alphabet ‘A’
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|-
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|05.07
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|Ring finger is on the alphabet ‘S’,
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|-
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|05.10
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|Middle finger on alphabet ‘D’,
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|-
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|05.13
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|Index finger on alphabet ‘F’.
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|-
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|05.17
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|Now, place your right hand, on the right side of the keyboard.
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|-
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|05.20
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|Ensure that the little finger is on the colon/semi-colon key.
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|-
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|05.25
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|Ring finger on the alphabet ‘L’.
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|-
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|05.28
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|Middle finger on the alphabet ‘K’.
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|-
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|05.30
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|Index finger on the alphabet ‘J’.
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|-
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|05.34
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|Use your right thumb to press the space bar.
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|-
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|05.37
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|The first time you open KTouch, the Teacher’s Line displays default text.
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|-
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|05.44
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|This text lists instructions on how to select the lecture and begin the typing lessons.
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|-
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|05.51
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|For the purposes of this tutorial, we shall skip typing the default text and select a lecture.
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|-
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|05.57
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|However, you can pause this tutorial, and type the default text.
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|-
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|06.02
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|Now, let us select the lecture to begin the typing lessons.
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|-
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|06.07
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|From the Main menu, select File, click Open Lecture.
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|-
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|06.12
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|The Select Training Lecture File – ‘KTouch’ dialog box appears.
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|-
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|06.17
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|Browse the flowing folder path
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Root->usr->share->kde4->apps->Ktouch
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|-
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|06.31
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|And select english.ktouch.xml and click Open.
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|-
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|06.36
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|Notice, that the Teacher’s Line now displays a different set of characters.
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|-
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|06.41
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|Now, let us start typing
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|-
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|06.43
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|By default, the Level is set to 1 and the Speed is set to zero.
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|-
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|06.49
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|The New Characters in This Level displays the characters we will learn in this level.
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|-
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|06.55
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|Notice that the cursor is in the Student’s Line.
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|-
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| 06.58
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|Let us type the character displayed in the teacher's line using the keyboard.
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|-
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|07.09
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| As we type, the characters are displayed in the Student’s Line.
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|-
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|07.14
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|Look at the Speed field now.
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|-
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|07.16
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|As you type, the number increases or decreases based on the speed of your typing.
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|-
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|07.22
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|If you stop typing, the speed count decreases.
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|-
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|07.25
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|Now, let’s type the numbers seven & eight, which are not displayed in the Teacher’s Line.
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|-
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|07.31
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|The Student Line has become red.
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|-
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|07.34
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|Why? That’s because we have mistyped or made an error in typing.
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|-
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|07.40
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|Let’s delete it and complete the typing.
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|-
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|07.56
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|When you reach the end of the line, press the Enter key, to move to the second line.
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|-
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|08.02
 +
|Notice, that the Teacher’s Line now displays the next set of characters to type.
 +
 
 +
|-
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|08.07
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|The Student’s line is cleared of the typed text.
 +
 
 +
|-
 +
|08.11
 +
|Let’s check how accurately we have typed.
 +
 
 +
|-
 +
|08.14
 +
|The Correctness field displays the percentage of correctness of your typing.For example, it may display 80 percent.
 +
 
 +
|-
 +
|08.23
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|We have completed our first typing lesson!
 +
 
 +
|-
 +
|08.26
 +
|It is a good practice to first learn to type accurately at lower speeds.
 +
 
 +
|-
 +
| 08.31
 +
| Once, we learn to type accurately, without mistakes, we can increase the typing speed.
 +
 
 +
|-
 +
|08.37
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|Let’s begin a new typing session.
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|-
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|08.40
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|Click Start New Session.
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|-
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|08.42
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|In the Start New Training Session – ‘KTouch’ dialog box, click Start from First Level.
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|-
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|08.50
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|What do you see?
 +
 
 +
|-
 +
|08.52
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|A set of characters are displayed in the Teacher’s Line.
 +
 
 +
|-
 +
|08.55
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|The Student’s Line is cleared of all characters and is blank.
 +
 
 +
|-
 +
|09.00
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|Let’s start typing.
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 +
|-
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|09.05
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|While practicing, you may want to pause and restart later.
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 +
|-
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|09.09
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|How do you pause your session?
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|-
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|09.12
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|Click pause session.
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|-
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|09.14
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|Notice that the speed does not decrease.
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|-
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|09.17
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|Recall, that it decreased when we stopped typing without pausing the earlier session.
 +
 
 +
|-
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|09.23
 +
|To resume typing, type the next character or word, displayed in the Teacher’s line.
 +
 
 +
|-
 +
|09.39
 +
|Once we complete typing, we can check the Correctness field.It displays the accuracy of typing.
 +
 
 +
|-
 +
|09.46
 +
|This brings us to the end of this tutorial on KTouch.
 +
 
 +
|-
 +
|09.50
 +
|In this tutorial we learnt about the KTouch interface. We also learnt how to: Place our fingers on the key board.
 +
 
 +
|-
 +
|09.59
 +
|Type by looking at the Teacher’s Line. And completed our first typing lesson.
 +
 
 +
|-
 +
|10.04
 +
|Here is an assignment for you.
 +
 
 +
|-
 +
|10.06
 +
|Open KTouch. Complete the typing lesson in level 1. Practice typing with this level.
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 +
|-
 +
|10.13
 +
|Remember to use the correct fingers for the keys.
 +
 
 +
|-
 +
|10.18
 +
|Watch the video available at the following link.It summarises the Spoken Tutorial project.
 +
 
 +
|-
 +
|10.24
 +
|If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it.
 +
 
 +
|-
 +
|10.28
 +
|The spoken tutorial team conduct workshops using spoken tutorials give certificates to those who pass an online test.
 +
 
 +
|-
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|10.37
 +
|For more details Please write to contact @spoken-tutorial.org.
 +
 
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|-
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|10.43
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|Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project.
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|-
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|10.47
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|It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India.
 +
 
 +
|-
 +
|10.55
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|More information on the same is available at spoken hyphen tutorial dot org slash NMEICT hyphen Intro
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|-
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|11.06
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|This tutorial has been contributed by DesiCrew Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
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Thanks for joining

Revision as of 11:56, 12 February 2013

Time Narration
00.00 Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial Introduction to KTouch.
00.04 In this tutorial you will learn about KTouch and the KTouch interface.
00.10 You will learn how to type:
00.11 Accurately, quickly, and efficiently, on a computer keyboard that has the English alphabet keys.
00.18 You will also learn to:
00.20 Type without having to look down at every time you type.
00.24 What is KTouch?
00.27 KTouch is a typing tutor. It teaches you how to type using an online interactive keyboard.
00.33 You can learn typing at your own pace.
00.36 You can gradually increase your typing speed and along with it, your accuracy.
00.43 KTouch also has lectures or typing samples, in various levels of difficulty, for you to practice with.
00.50 Here, we are using KTouch 1.7.1 on Ubuntu Linux 11.10.
00.59 You can install KTouch using the Ubuntu Software Centre.
01.03 For more information on Ubuntu Software Centre, please refer to the Ubuntu Linux Tutorials on this website.
01.11 Let’s open KTouch.
01.13 First, click Dash Home, which is the round button, on the top left corner of your computer desktop.
01.21 The Search box appears.
01.24 In the Search box type KTouch.
01.28 The KTouch icon appears beneath the Search box.Click on it.
01.34 The KTouch window appears.
01.36 Alternately, you can open KTouch using the Terminal.
01.41 To open a Terminal press the CTRL and ALT and T keys together.
01.47 To open KTouch, in the Terminal, type the command: ktouch and press Enter.
01.55 Now, let’s familiarize ourselves with the KTouch interface.
01.59 The Main menu comprises the File, Training, Settings, and Help menus.
02.06 Click Start New Session to start a new session to practice typing.
02.11 Click Pause Session to pause while typing.
02.14 Click on Lecture Statistics to know your typing progress.
02.19 Level indicates the level of complexity, in terms of the number of keys used when typing.
02.27 Speed indicates the number of characters that you can type per minute.
02.32 The Correctness indicator displays the percentage correctness of typing.
02.39 The New Characters in This Level field displays the characters that you need to practice at the selected level.
02.47 The Teacher’s Line displays the characters that have to be typed.
02.51 The Student’s Line displays the characters that are typed by you using the keyboard.
02.58 The Keyboard is displayed in the centre.
03.02 The first line of the keyboard displays numerals, special characters, and the Backspace key.
03.09 Press the Backspace key to delete typed characters.
03.13 The second line of the keyboard comprises alphabets few special characters, and the Tab key.
03.20 The third line of the keyboard comprises alphabets,colon, semicolon, and Caps lock keys.
03.28 Press the Enter key to go to the next line while typing.
03.33 Press the Caps Lock key to type capital letters.
03.37 The fourth line of the keyboard comprises alphabets, special characters, and shift keys.
03.45 Press the shift key together with any other alphabet key to type capital letters.
03.52 Press the Shift key with any other key to type a character given at the top of the key.
03.59 For example, the key with the numeral 1 has the exclamation mark on top.

To type the exclamation mark, press the Shift key together with 1.

04.11 The fifth line of the keyboard comprises the Ctrl, Alt, and Function keys.It also contains the space bar.
04.20 Now let us see if there are differences between the KTouch keyboard, laptop keyboard, and desktop keyboard.
04.29 Notice that the KTouch keyboard and the keyboards used in desktops and laptops are similar.
04.36 Now, let’s see the correct placement of our fingers on the keyboard.
04.41 Look at this slide.
04.42 It displays the fingers and their names.
04.46 Fingers, from left to right, are named:

Little finger,


04.51 Ring finger,

Middle finger,

04.54 Index finger and

Thumb

04.59 On your keyboard, place your left hand, on the left side of the keyboard.
05.03 Ensure that the little finger is on alphabet ‘A’
05.07 Ring finger is on the alphabet ‘S’,
05.10 Middle finger on alphabet ‘D’,
05.13 Index finger on alphabet ‘F’.
05.17 Now, place your right hand, on the right side of the keyboard.
05.20 Ensure that the little finger is on the colon/semi-colon key.
05.25 Ring finger on the alphabet ‘L’.
05.28 Middle finger on the alphabet ‘K’.
05.30 Index finger on the alphabet ‘J’.
05.34 Use your right thumb to press the space bar.
05.37 The first time you open KTouch, the Teacher’s Line displays default text.
05.44 This text lists instructions on how to select the lecture and begin the typing lessons.
05.51 For the purposes of this tutorial, we shall skip typing the default text and select a lecture.
05.57 However, you can pause this tutorial, and type the default text.
06.02 Now, let us select the lecture to begin the typing lessons.
06.07 From the Main menu, select File, click Open Lecture.
06.12 The Select Training Lecture File – ‘KTouch’ dialog box appears.
06.17 Browse the flowing folder path

Root->usr->share->kde4->apps->Ktouch

06.31 And select english.ktouch.xml and click Open.
06.36 Notice, that the Teacher’s Line now displays a different set of characters.
06.41 Now, let us start typing
06.43 By default, the Level is set to 1 and the Speed is set to zero.
06.49 The New Characters in This Level displays the characters we will learn in this level.
06.55 Notice that the cursor is in the Student’s Line.
06.58 Let us type the character displayed in the teacher's line using the keyboard.


07.09 As we type, the characters are displayed in the Student’s Line.
07.14 Look at the Speed field now.
07.16 As you type, the number increases or decreases based on the speed of your typing.
07.22 If you stop typing, the speed count decreases.
07.25 Now, let’s type the numbers seven & eight, which are not displayed in the Teacher’s Line.
07.31 The Student Line has become red.
07.34 Why? That’s because we have mistyped or made an error in typing.
07.40 Let’s delete it and complete the typing.
07.56 When you reach the end of the line, press the Enter key, to move to the second line.
08.02 Notice, that the Teacher’s Line now displays the next set of characters to type.
08.07 The Student’s line is cleared of the typed text.
08.11 Let’s check how accurately we have typed.
08.14 The Correctness field displays the percentage of correctness of your typing.For example, it may display 80 percent.
08.23 We have completed our first typing lesson!
08.26 It is a good practice to first learn to type accurately at lower speeds.
08.31 Once, we learn to type accurately, without mistakes, we can increase the typing speed.
08.37 Let’s begin a new typing session.
08.40 Click Start New Session.
08.42 In the Start New Training Session – ‘KTouch’ dialog box, click Start from First Level.
08.50 What do you see?
08.52 A set of characters are displayed in the Teacher’s Line.
08.55 The Student’s Line is cleared of all characters and is blank.
09.00 Let’s start typing.
09.05 While practicing, you may want to pause and restart later.
09.09 How do you pause your session?
09.12 Click pause session.
09.14 Notice that the speed does not decrease.
09.17 Recall, that it decreased when we stopped typing without pausing the earlier session.
09.23 To resume typing, type the next character or word, displayed in the Teacher’s line.
09.39 Once we complete typing, we can check the Correctness field.It displays the accuracy of typing.
09.46 This brings us to the end of this tutorial on KTouch.
09.50 In this tutorial we learnt about the KTouch interface. We also learnt how to: Place our fingers on the key board.
09.59 Type by looking at the Teacher’s Line. And completed our first typing lesson.
10.04 Here is an assignment for you.
10.06 Open KTouch. Complete the typing lesson in level 1. Practice typing with this level.
10.13 Remember to use the correct fingers for the keys.
10.18 Watch the video available at the following link.It summarises the Spoken Tutorial project.
10.24 If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it.
10.28 The spoken tutorial team conduct workshops using spoken tutorials give certificates to those who pass an online test.
10.37 For more details Please write to contact @spoken-tutorial.org.
10.43 Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project.
10.47 It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India.
10.55 More information on the same is available at spoken hyphen tutorial dot org slash NMEICT hyphen Intro
11.06 This tutorial has been contributed by DesiCrew Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Thanks for joining

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