Home row method

You are going to be learning how to key using the Home Row method and touch typing technique.  What the Home Row method means is that everything you do will be based on the home row and where your fingers rest on the home row.  Additionally, a touch typing technique requires that you use your physical senses (in other words the feeling in your fingers) to key rather than visual senses.  What this means is that through practice you will be able to key without looking at the keyboard.

In order to be able to do that at a proficient level you to fight through the urge to constantly look at your keyboard.  This will probably be a "weird sensation" - you are used to using your visual senses to help you accomplish what you do on a daily basis.  But, with practice, it is possible (we'll use an example in class).  

Today we will begin learning the keyboard.  We start with the home row - it will be important that you "master" the home row because everything else on the keyboard will flow from the home row.