KTouch/S1/Getting-Started-with-Ktouch/English-timed
From Script | Spoken-Tutorial
| 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,
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| 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.
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| 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.
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