KTouch/S1/Getting-Started-with-Ktouch/English-timed

Time	Narration
00:00	Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on 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 the keyboard 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 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 summarizes 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: conducts workshops using spoken tutorials, gives 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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