Keyboarding

Here is where you will find the content to key. Follow the instructions and start to key in the information following the instructions. DO NOT key in the instructions themselves. = = =Tuesday, April 17, 2007=
 * Directions:** Please start a new Word Document, I would like you to //save as//: **KEYEX2.doc** once you have saved the blank document, I would like you to //insert// a **PAGE BORDER**. **__To do this__**, Click on //Format//, //Borders and Shading//, Choose the //Page Border// tab and select a border you would like to use on your page. Then begin to type in the entry found below.

If you spend much time online, then you have most likely heard of Napster. What began in 1999 as an idea in the head of a teenager proceeded to redefine the Internet, the music industry and the way we all think about **intellectual property**. Napster is now back in business as a legal, pay-per-song music-download site; but it once was a controversial service that spurred what is still one of the greatest Internet-related debates: Just because we //can// get the music we want without paying for it, //should// we? http://computer.howstuffworks.com/napster.htm
 * How the Old Napster Worked**

= = =Grading for First 4 Weeks=
 * Mavis Beacon - 20 points Possible Accuracy || 90% or better || 10 points ||
 * || 80-89% || 5 points ||
 * || <80% || 0 points ||
 * Time Spent - MB || Class Avg or Better || 10 points ||
 * || Below Avg || 5 points ||
 * Keyboarding Exercise 20 points possible || Misspelled Word = -1 point ||
 * || Cut and Pasted Entry = up to loss of all available points ||

=TUESDAY 4-3-07= = = =THURSDAY 3-29-07=
 * Instructions:** Open Keyboarding exercise, insert a page header (View, Header and Footer) Key in your first and last name and your class period. Click on CLOSE to exit out of the header. Then check any of the below topics and pick one that you have not completed and work on it. I will announce when it is time to print. Thank you!
 * Instructions: Open Keyboarding exercise, add this entry after your Pixar entry. Use Spell check to verify your spelling.**

1990 ARPANET formally shuts down. In twenty years, ‘the net’ has grown from 4 to over 300,000 hosts. Countries connecting in 1990 include Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Greece, India, Ireland, South Korea, Spain, and Switzerland. Several search tools, such as ARCHIE, Gopher, and WAIS start to appear. Institutions like the National Library of Medicine, Dow Jones, and Dialog are now on line. More ‘worms’ burrow on the net, with as many as 130 reports leading to 12 real ones! This is a further indication of the transition to a wider audience. http://www.computerhistory.org/exhibits/internet_history/internet_history_90s.shtml

= = =TUESDAY 3-27-07= = =
 * Instructions: Open Keyboarding exercise, add this entry after your The Abacus Entry. Use Spellcheck to verify your spelling.**

March 29, 1989 "Pixar Wins Academy Award for "Tin Toy" "Pixar wins an Academy Award for "Tin Toy," the first entirely computer-animated work to win in the best animated short film category. Pixar, now a division of Disney, continued its success with a string of shorts and the first entirely computer-animated feature-length film, the best-selling "Toy Story." " http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/index.php?seldate=3,29,1989

=THURSDAY 3-15-07=

Instructions: Open Keyboarding exercise, add this entry after your This Day in History Entry. Use Spellcheck, change your font to Jokerman, 12 pt.
The Abacus Ancient times Middle East The abacus is a powerful calculating device enabling its user to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. It was probably invented in the Middle East, where it began as simple marks in the dirt. In the West, from early Roman times, users calculated with a highly developed “table abacus” that involved manipulating coin-like discs, or “jetons,” on lines drawn on a table or cloth. The table abacus remained in use in parts of Britain and northern Europe until the late 1600s. In the East, several Asian civilizations used a technique similar to the table abacus until about 1200 AD when the more familiar wire and bead abacus was created in China. As late as 1946, the US Army newspaper Stars and Stripes sponsored a contest pitting a Japanese abacus against an electric calculator. The abacus won. http://www.computerhistory.org/VirtualVisibleStorage/artifact_frame.php?tax_id=01.01.01.00

=TUESDAY 3-13-07=

Instructions: Open Keyboarding exercise, add this after Charles Babbage. BOLD Microsoft, UNDERLINE This day in history. Save
This day in history..... March 13, 1986 Microsoft Goes Public "Ten years after the company's founding, Microsoft Corporation stock goes public at $21 per share." http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/index.php

=THURSDAY 3-8-07=

Instructions: BOLD Charles Babbage, Underline Topic Sentences, Spellcheck[[image:http://www.computerhistory.org/VisibleStorage/images/102636911_lg.jpg width="233" height="151" align="right"]]. Save
Charles Babbage 1791 - 1871 England Charles Babbage was a brilliant scientist. In response to the numerous errors contained in mathematical tables, he developed the “Difference Engine,” a mechanical device that could perform error-free calculation of polynomial functions. He completed only a small model before the British government withdrew funding, forcing him to abandon the project. Soon after, Swedish scientists Georg and Edvard Scheutz would complete a working version. Babbage designed another device to perform more complex calculations. His “Analytical Engine” was similar to modern computers: instructions from punched cards controlled how the calculating element, or “mill,” manipulated numbers in the “store.” The machine was never built. http://www.computerhistory.org/VirtualVisibleStorage/artifact_frame.php?tax_id=01.01.05.00